Author: Frances

The Lowcountry is a place of marshy watery beauty. This painting of the marsh is by the talented #elizabethmiddour, host of my booksigning tonight @thegreenshutter which she also owns. Wonder if she’d give me lessons? #lowcountry #marsh #pleinairpainting

Today! Signing @thegreenshutter in Mt Pleasant from 5 to 7 and reading at 6. Come see us and enjoy this wonderful shop! #thebeecottagestory

Morning walk in #Charleston by the #charlestonfirestation. Love the statue of the dozing #Dalmatian on the sidewalk under the flag. Such a charming city. #morningwalk I’ll be signing #thebeecottagestory today, Tuesday, at #Fritz-Porter from 4 to 6. Reading at 5. Come see us!

Why they call it #theholycity. Beautiful old #Charleston and its beautiful old #churches. Here to sign books #thebeecottagestory at Fritz-Porter in the Old Cigar Factory from 4 to 6 Tuesday TODAY and @thegreenshutter tomorrow Wednesday in Mount Pleasant. @fritzporterchs

Whew glad that’s over, but thank you @lowcountrylive for a great morning. Can I open my eyes now? Please come see me tomorrow afternoon @fritzporterchs in the old #cigarfactory in Charleston or Wednesday @thegreenshutter in Mt. Pleasant signing #thebeecottagestory And thank you adorable matchmaker @charlestonwinepairings for the photo.

Good morning Charleston! From the green room of WCIV-TV channel 4 waiting to go on Lowcountry Live this morning talking about #thebeecottagestory. I’ll be reading and signing @fritzporterchs in Charleston on Tuesday and @thegreenshutter in Mt Pleasant on Wednesday. Details in my website. Come see me! On the cover of this month’s @charlestonmag is by #karinolah @lowcountrylive @karinolah

Happy Valentine’s Day. Finally got to the Costume Institute at the Met on last trip to New York. The Countess Jacqueline de Ribes was and is a paragon of style, and also gracious and lovely in person. I was thrilled to meet her ca 2005 at a party in Venice….

Happy Valentine’s Day. Petals on the table and silly sunglasses for napkin rings. #myfuturesobrightigottawearshades #rancholazaca #homesweethome

Shared the road with this fellow driving home from town the other day. Love living in a small town. (I seem to be on a road theme here lately…) #horseandbuggy #losolivos #santaynezvalley #santabarbarawinecountry #smalltownliving #smalltownusa #roadtrip

So this cow walks out of a painting… “Afternoon in the Vineyard'” by moi (and posted earlier, sorry for the re-run) and the little Staffordshire cow that was my mother’s and one of my treasures. They seem made for each other, but it is not to be, alas. “Afternoon” is drying and about to be shipped to its new owner. Going to a very good home. #oaksavannavineyard #rancholazaca #landscape #pleinairpainting #losolivos #santaynezvalley #santabarbarawinecountry #socal #staffordshirecow

In honor of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, by David Hockney, from the 2011 Arrival of Spring in Woldgate series of iPad drawings. #davidhockney #ipaddrawing #arrivalofspringinworldgate #ashwednesday

Talk about romantic… Always love seeing one of these on the ride to town. And to think my husband used to race them. It is a whole thing apparently… #hotairballoon #foxencanyon #santaynezvalley #santabarbarawinecountry #romanticgetaway #ridetotown #losolivos #california