highlight of the week: our apartment was featured in the recent special issue of dwell magazine! (ahhh!)
and the one-page feature! my job here is done.
(you can always see more of the apt here on the blog.)
have a great weekend, everyone!
snow day
i was going totally stir crazy today indoors. it snowed last night, but it's quickly turning into that special brand of yellow-ish brown new york city slush that you want to avoid at all costs. everything is dead and sad (by everything i just mean my outdoor plants, not people or anything). and on monday, the semester starts and i have to (i mean...get to) teach, so i can't just sit around watching my paperwhites grow anymore. i've been propagating some jade plant cuttings too, but recently realized that i was doing it all wrong. this seems to be a theme with my gardening...i really should research then cut, rather than the other way around. anyway, we'll see if i was able to save them...stay tuned.
my sad dead yard.
how i wished my yard looked. (this is actually a garden near the river cafe and brooklyn bridge park in the summer of 2014.)
so instead, for some insta-plant gratification, i went up fifth avenue to zuzu's petals. zuzu's is the neighborhood florist (it's weirdly also the name of the ramen shop in the neighborhood, but there's no relation that i can see), and i'm always tempted to submit a job application when i go in there so i can be surrounded by beautiful flowers all day long. everyone in there is living the dream, if you ask me.
so i trudged through the said slush and got myself some snow day plants. this is what i came home with:
the green leafy thing with purple undersides is a calathea, and the pinky-green plant is a chinese evergreen.
a close-up of the bright pink edges of the chinese evergreen. it went perfectly into the crinkle planter from cb2.
i instantly felt 1,000 times better. aren't those lovely? the google gods say that they are both low-light plants, and the calathea is from the tropics. the "siam aurora" chinese evergreen is apparently a new hybrid - they don't all have the variegated pink coloring. anyway, now that i have these plants, i suppose i can go on living until spring comes. but i may need another new houseplant or two if this miserable weather keeps up. (hhh, don't say i didn't warn you.)
a walk on carroll street
our sunday walk took us west through gowanus, over the carroll street bridge, and through carroll gardens. more days like this, please.
a view of the gowanus canal from the bridge.
willa begrudgingly trails hhh. (she only walks willingly if we're headed to the park.)
have a great week! xoxo