Beautiful landscape calls us to dream and to wander, to take paths unknown. In it, we fix our eyes both on the distant horizons and on the tiniest details at our side. It reaches into our souls, rewards and soothes us. It is the Earth’s embrace.
Standing in an open field in England’s Lake District recently, […]

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“Could it be possible that a landscape might have a deep friendship with you? That it could sense your presence and feel the care you extend towards it?”
John O’Donohue
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
If we are blessed with such kinship, then the Irish Hunger Memorial is a place of its embrace. This small. lush pocket, off New […]

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Tinos green marble is a vivid green-blue with wide white veins, mined from the quarries of a small mountainous Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Briar Hill sandstone is an earthy stone of warm red, rust, brown, and buff-colored tones taken from quarries in Glenmont, Ohio. Missouri is the source of Napoleon gray marble, […]

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