Happy Earth Day!  Little Missy Dreams in Green

22 April 2013

 

Konstantino Green Prasiolite Ring

 

The name Prasiolite is derived from the Greek-- πράσον prason-- meaning "leek" and λίθο--lithos-meaning "stone." This means that "prasiolite" literally means "scallion green-coloured stone."   And don't think for one moment that Little Missy actually knew this off the top of her head!  She looked it up on Google!  But knew a scallion coloured stone when she saw one!  How green it THAT?  Plus I have ordered one for myself, I like it so much!  And Konstantino is Greek!  Full circle!  Full stop!

 

 

A green house in London

 

Who wouldn't want this green house in London?  I mean if you have stuck with Little Missy this far, you probably love London and beautiful architecture too!  And maybe just MAYBE if I got lucky enough to have a green house in London, Doug Aitken could come over from LA and drill a big hole in the floor for an art installation!  Kind of like he did at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park!  Then I could grow some more plants that don't need light!  Like mushrooms!



 

 

 

Topiaries

 

What can we say about topiaries that hasn't already been said?  Humans way of taming nature, Western Bonzai.



 

Alexander McQueen Taffeta Gown

 

We all know now how important it is to recycle our clothes--vintage is just about the most major sub-industry in fashion.  And how lucky would you have been if you had had the foresight to collect this amazing McQueen green and taffeta gown?  Then you could be wearing it today, proud and green!

 

 

Isis in the Serpentine at Hyde Park, London

 

Isis is more than the beautiful yellow lab of Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey. Isis is the Greek goddess who is worshipped as the ideal mother, wife and protector of children and the dead. There are rings with plaques around this beautiful representation of Isis in Hyde Park and I have one for my children Alexandra and Michael and me.  Mother and children.  The earth.  Our Mother.  Little Missy very misty eyed at the moment.  Our old gardener Cesar is 60 years old today.  Happy birthday, Cesar!  Happy Earth Day Everyone!  Little Missy remembers back in the sixties when certain people in America thought Earth Day was a Communist plot.  How far we have come!  Rejoice and renewal!