Saturday, February 4, 2012

February

from Take Joy! by Tasha Tudor (c. 1966)

February
by Christina Rossetti

Bread and milk for breakfast
And woolen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast
On the cold days of the year.

2 comments:

  1. Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.

    Since then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".

    I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.

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  2. Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.

    Since then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".

    I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.

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