DG Site Updates: Poppies, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
One of the most famous cottage gardens of all time was memorialized in the diary of that garden's maker as well as in the watercolors, pastels and oils of her friend, the American impressionist, Childe Hassam, who illustrated it. Both her book and many of his works are free online in digital form.

I think this makes wonderful winter reading for the dreamers and schemers among us, and after you peruse a bit, ya gotta ask yourself what would her garden have been without poppies?

Celia Thaxter's book, An Island Garden is here:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/thaxter/garden/garden...

the best scan I can find of her in her garden by Childe Hassam with those poppies in the foreground and the Atlantic ocean in the background is here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Celia_Thaxter_...
(labeled in my files: HassamChilde_CeliaThaxterinherGarden_Wikipedia_1892

More of Childe Hassam's paintings are at: http://www.artcyclopedia.com
However, I had to go to http://www.google.com to find the scan I've put here