Picture Show

I remember very clearly as a young librarian my supervisor, a senior children's librarian who was also in management and therefore involved in budgetary and purchasing decisions, being questioned by some other administrative types about the library's purchase of art and design books or, if you prefer, 'coffee table books' when times were so tight economically and what I remember is how confidently, firmly and surely she told them that adults need picture books every bit as much as children do.  

I thought about her a lot this summer, a summer I was very grateful for picture books.

1.Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window from a book about Vermeer, 2. a snap from the book Quiet Corners of Paris, 3. a snap from the booklet in the Style Council box set, 4. a page from my most favorite cookbook, Apples for Jam (reading it is like having your every meal-serving challenge gently and deliciously solved plus getting a enormously comforting hug and a promise it's all going to be okay), 5. Debbie Harry in the book Steal Her Style, 6. St. Macaire of Ghent Tending the Plague-Stricken from the book Paintings in the Louvre and 7. a snap from Jerry Hall's Tall Tales.

Probably not right to follow that with a couple Instagrams but here I go.

wishing everyone happy golden last days of summer.

Comments

[davyh]

Pink toes? Keeping summer alive there x

[davyh]

PS: I love this post

[Greer]

Grey and foggy today (bit of a relief if I'm being honest) but they are still pink.

Thank you very much x

[Tricia]

Mmmm...savoring this end of summer post. Just lovely.....as I watch the leaves turn here by the minute...

[Greer]

Thank you so much, Tricia. They are just getting ready to turn here. My favorite time of year.

[FiL]

The long, hot summer just passed me by... ;)

[Greer]

Me too. Miss you, FiL.