lesliejb's Profile

The Veterans and the Boomers, I venture, had a higher % of stay-at-home wives...which is a big pool of potential gardeners. It makes sense that Gen X'ers, with our higher percentage of working women, would have fewer garden hobbyists.

Makes my head spin. Not how I want to start my day!

those are lupines in the picture, right? beautiful!

I'm generally pretty clutter-tolerant, but this space really tires my eyes out. I think the black-and-white palette, without some broad areas of color to ground it visually, actually makes it more cluttered to me. The book edges, the shelf edges, the squares of the quilt, the surface with the photos . . . it's all a lot of visual detail. It reminds me of how detailed line art can be visually overwhelming to the eye sometimes, when there isn't enough difference in line weight to help you focus in on the most important things . . . I've gotten sketches from illustrators that had this problem, but when they went to color art, and larger areas were consolidated with color, all the detail was put into context, and worked as an asset. For this space, Turning the books around so the spines provided a more solid block, OR having a quilt with a solid background, might be enough to make me enjoy the other details.