-by Edith Holden
Country Diary was originally published in 1906. Is it any wonder that reading
this book makes me feel like I'm stepping back in time? One flip of a page and I'm instantly
in Edwardian accouterment, sitting in a beautiful field atop a quilt on a
breezy summer day, with my pen and journal in hand.
Elegant and
absolutely beautiful, this book is a visual banquet that I will continue
to enjoy whenever I open its pages! Its amazingly detailed drawings and
paintings of nature are coupled with the author's notes and poetry of
the time.
It has encouraged me to dig out my own art journal now
and then, even when I "think" I have nothing worthy to write about or
draw. Sometimes it's the little things that mean the most, and the
journey - not the destination - that counts.
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