Just the Pretty

That's right! Sometimes it's all about the pretty. Pretty houses, pretty gardens, pretty clothes whatever. It's such a cliche pretty pretty pretty. I know other modifiers sure, but I'm a purest. Why say, "stunning." When really that's just the Lexus term for pretty. Pretty is irreplaceable. I just plain like it. I like magnificent and sensational, attractive, lovely and so on. But today, just the pretty.

A bicycle ride in Paris. Photo Source

The salmon colored chair and red walls are eclectic and...PRETTY! Photo Source

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This is gorgeous and I would venture to guess, delicious as well. It's grapefruit infused rum.  Photo Source

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What a pretty winter ensemble. Photo Source

Chestnut Soup. Warm and wonderful! And this photo - PRETTY! Photo Source

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Out To Lunch!

Cucumber Sandwich

Cucumber slices

Watercress or Mache

Goat cheese or Boucheron

Salt and Pepper to taste

On a toasted baguette with Dijon Mustard

Photographed by Monica Buck from Country Home July/August 2001

Before There Was Pinterest...

There was me!

I absolutely love Pinterest! It's an addiction that I feel pretty good about, in fact - I mean as far as addictions go. I'll spend and hour, sometimes two or an entire afternoon perusing the internet for pretty pictures to pin with my pinmarklet address bar pin tool. I'll use my app to pin and pin and pin - especially when I'm using the loo! But before there was Pinterest, I would while away a Sunday afternoon, long, long ago cutting up magazines and saving the prettiest and most interesting images.

Look at all the goodies I got through the years. I will periodically post pretty pictures from as far back as 1989. Those are photos from more than 20 years ago. I know it sounds out of date but literature, film, design and cuisine is often timeless! Join Pinterest and follow me there so I can follow you too! You have to apply for an invitation (Oh, such an exclusive club) then you sign up and that's that...you're hooked!