Late July Blooms at Planting Fields Foundation

It’s the end of October but you wouldn’t know it by the warmer temperatures. I’m finally getting around to posting photos from a late July visit to Planting Fields Foundation in Oyster Bay, NY. The flowers were in full bloom and the grounds were magical. I was taken with the Italian Garden and how the […]

Sunday Stroll, Monet’s Giverny

A friend at work and I were recently reminiscing on respective trips to Monet’s garden, Giverny. I remembered more recent photos that a dear friend shared with me of her 2018 trip to Giverny and I was magically swept away. She captured everything I would have wanted to experience, even with a picture traveling through […]

A New Hope in the City: NYC April 2021

Things are starting to look up in the city. More people are getting their vaccinations and Spring is starting to show its colors. I found myself in the Flatiron District last week and marveled at how the city seems to be transforming in beautiful ways with the residual effects of living through a pandemic. Restaurants […]

Brighter Days with Fig & Squill Floral Design

As we round our third gray and rainy day on the east coast, an early morning chat with dear friend Laura Seita of Fig & Squill reminded me of greener, brighter days. The breach in the event world caused by the coronavirus pandemic has clarified our interconnectivity. I am grateful that during past summers I […]

Happy Thanksgiving 2014

Here’s to our many Blessings. There is so much to be Grateful for. I give Thanks. Photography and flowers Beth Horta for Sweet Sabelle.  

Summer’s Bounty

While visiting friends in Saratoga Springs recently, I was given an assignment to make a flower arrangement from what I could find in the woods. I had total access to forage from a large yard. Delightfully, I found things I don’t even know the names of, and rediscovered my love of foliage. There was Fern […]

With Love

Happy Mother’s Day! Counting my Blessings. Beautiful spring flowers among them! Floral Arrangement and Photography Beth Horta for Sweet Sabelle.