Gardens on Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA

Every summer, my family spends a week in Provincetown, which is at the very tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Remote and breathtakingly beautiful, it is also America’s preeminent art colony, home to artists and writers including Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell. “Provincetown  is, has always been, an eccentrics’ sanctuary,” says Michael Cunningham, who has kept a summer house in Provincetown for years. “It is one of the places in the world you can disappear into. It is the Morocco of North America, the New Orleans of the north.” I especially love the gardens you pass along Commercial Street, the main road that runs the length of Provincetown. I took these pictures in August of this year.

My reading list on NOMAD-CHIC

NOMAD-CHIC is a digital lifestyle platform that curates original content with a focus on travel. Navigating through the site is a journey in its own right – each time I do, I get lost in the beautiful collages and wistful, short articles. I am so excited that NOMAD-CHIC has featured me in their Reading List series.

“At Nomad, we believe in multiple forms of travel – a jaunt to the balmy west coast of our favorite Southeast Asian island, a trip to ‘5os Paris by way of Truffaut, and perhaps most enduringly, the transitive journey implicit in a truly great read.”

Favorite Independent Bookstores in New York City

McNally Jackson in Soho (my absolute favorite)

Crawford Doyle Booksellers on the Upper East Side

Book Court in Cobble Hill

192 Bookstore

Books of Wonder in Chelsea

It’s Cold Outside

Summer Dreaming

Fireplaces

Images via Apartment Therapy, 27TH II, Bob Martus, Unknown, Nicole Franzen, the Cobble Hill home of the principals of Workstead featured on Remodelista (who recently profiled another of their fantastic projects here) and finally, the Brooklyn home of Miranda Brooks and Bastien Halard, featured by Vogue, and which I blogged about here.

Picture Pairing

The second photograph (both are mine) was taken in the magnificent Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis.

Dia:Beacon and the Hudson River Valley

Black Earring Roundup

1. Wendy Nichol 4mm black diamond studs 2. Collette Ishiyama brass and stingray leather Owl Studs 3. Katie Diamond black garnet Astrid Studs 4. Wendy Nichol black diamond pyramid back stud.

Color Matching

Gertrude Käsebier, Color half-tone plate engraving, Originally published in Century Magazine, January 1908

Nicole Franzen, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, published on Instragram, January 2013.