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Reply To: | B-P Golden Oldies: \"That's gneiss but I think you're full of schist!\"" < [log in to unmask]> |
Date: | Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:20:04 EDT |
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In a message dated 4/14/2006 2:00:19 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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Next week, I return home to NJ. Spring is well underway there with flowers,
and birds, and green grass. My house is as I left it - safe, secure, and
filled with our family photos, well loved furniture, and a garden to dig
in. I
will never take it for granted again after these last few months in
Louisiana.
Julip;
There is one thing about Montclair ; it was so well planned (or parts anyway
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that by the 1920's the lots were such that they couldn't really be
subdivided .
George Innes was a eccentric , wonderful landscape painter who moved his
studio to Montclair (Belleview Ave ) in the 1880's and 90"s while keeping his
commercial address in New York thus setting off a trend that allowed the well
to do like wise . The railroad enabled the businessman to get to the Hoboken
ferry and be in lower manhattan in no time .
Innes like every gardener and home owner to follow insured the town and its
boulevards were lined with hardwood trees ,slate sidewalks , front and back
yards to garden ,grow vegetables ,and in the case of my yankee grandfather
raise bees and grow bearded Iris , and build a secluded backyard paradise of gold
fish ponds and marble sculpture.
Mountainside ,I trust still has world famous Iris gardens and the Van Vleck
estate is a must this time of year ......not to mention Julips front yard
...have one on the porch for Py xoxoxo
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