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Romance in Venice

September 2, 2014September 15, 2014 by Gretchen Greer In Italy Leave a comment

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Morning light ✨

These daily romances, rose bouquets and pink china tea cups, champagne coups and candlelit dinners, waltzes through the living room and games of hide and seek.

Picking wildflowers and reading fairytales whilst my husband is toiling away in the vineyard. I don’t think I always have the easier job (while, say, tending to 3 am stomach bugs like this morning), but moments like these are rather nice 🌸

Mornings with the old oaks, the golden grasses, the winds of spring and the budding blossoms. Mornings like the Saturday mornings of childhood, barefoot and ready for two days of delicious solitary adventures into the unknown corners of the most well known places. Never solitary now, but always half wild with my little wild ones 🌿

The light on a rainy morning, the glint of candlelight on antique brass, the label of my husband’s ancient Calvados, the grapes he bought for our daughter 🍇

Giveaway 🌿 I’ve partnered with three of my favorite creators to give away a matching set of enchanting William Morris goods from @_winifredj_

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