Pearl Fryar's 'Love, Peace & Goodwill Garden': It's a Truly Beautiful Thing

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I’ve always loved topiary gardens, from the days that I owned a plant store.

My friend Robert just called me about the most amazingly wonderful story on Home and Garden Television, “A Man Named Pearl” about the Love, Peace & Goodwill Garden in Bishopville, S.C.

With all the talk about gardening, and my Michelle-Style post today about Black-owned media not covering the groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden — Gardening (with weeding) Is A National Issue for Balcks and Whites Together — it’s positively delicious to watch such a splendid story of one man’s spirit and his relentless passion to create beauty in the land.

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J'Adore: Luke Hayes Quilts

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I hate gender-based assumptions about life’s activities, but when I think quilting, I don’t think “men”. Clearly, I must think again, after seeing the quilts made by Luke Hayes.

The last six monthsLuke Haynes, born and raised in the American South began experimenting with quilt art, after receiving formal training in art and architecture at Cooper Union, New York.

Subverting the traditional quilting form by integrating modern concepts, his art transforms the comfortably familiar, redefining quilting in an entirely new way.

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