Happy start to the weekend, friends! I hope you have had a good week.
The picture of the lamp light I’m sharing today was taken when we lived out in the country before our big move to town. This picture just speaks peace to me.
Maybe it is the peace lily that is turned toward the afternoon sun filtering in the window and brightening the room, highlighting the vase and the pink glass ring on the lamp base. We purchased the pink accent lamp at least ten years ago from a little shop in Nashville. I thought that it would be the perfect lamp for Audra Elizabeth’s room; however, she opted for another lamp, and I ended up with it in the master suite. It was a beautiful contrast with the blue Ballet Slipper Sherwin Williams walls and it was a close enough match in color to a vase that belonged to my grandmother, Beatrice. I filled the vase with pussy willows from our dear North Carolina neighbor Jeanelle’s yard.
To this day, though we have moved to town, I still have this pink accented lamp on my mother’s antique desk. The vase of the pussy willows is not far away from the lamp. Maybe it is the sentimentality of the items in the picture that adds to the peacefulness of the scene. Maybe it is knowing that the lamp and vase are on my mother’s desk. I don’t know. I do know that each time I look at this picture, it is peaceful to me.
Maybe it is the story my Grandma Mavis shared with me of how my mother wanted to buy the antique desk from a house auction, and since she was out of town, my Grandma Mavis went to the auction and bought it for my mom. My grandmother really enjoyed having the desk in her home and was in no hurry for my mother to take it to her home! But, she did eventually take it home, and for as long as I can remember, the desk was in our living room while growing up. It makes me happy to know that the antique desk brought my Grandma Mavis such joy during the time she kept it for my mom. I never had the opportunity to meet my Grandma Beatrice, but having this beautiful pink vase that was hers is special to me. Maybe also it is the kind thoughts and memories I have of our former neighbor, Jeanelle, that hold a special place in my heart. The Spode Blue Room seasons plate was one of a collection of six that I had flanking two windows near the desk and they remind me of my dear friend, Ansley.
So it seems after processing all that with you that I have arrived at the conclusion that the sentimental value of this picture is peaceful to me.
Peaceful. Calm. Serene. Tranquil.
I hope that each of those words describes your upcoming weekend. Look up, my friends! There is beauty all around us.
