Do you Flamingo?

 Image by Slim Aarons of Durie Desloge and Wendy Vanderbilt

 Today and yesterday have been an absolute gift from the gods above...

The thermometer has been reading 58 degrees with the most loveliest of lovely balmy breezes.

The warm humidity has my skin jumping for joy,

although my hair might just disagree...

It reminds me of our yearly pilgrimage to Florida to visit my grandmother when I was a child.

Sadly, I haven't stepped foot on Floridian soil since 2006, but my heart and soul think about it often...

 Image via Chocolate Creative Design

 I remember flying through a starry sky into the Orlando airport... 
Stepping off the plane and having the intoxicating sweet smell of orange blossoms envelop me in the warm night air...

The dark silhouettes of the palm trees gently waved and welcomed me on our sleepy car ride to the house..

Being woken up by the smiling faces of the orange and yellow zinnias which papered the bedroom walls.

Stepping and hopping over cracks (not to break my mother's back) down the rough brick breezeway to the dining room
where

a freshly picked pink grapefruit awaited my arrival.

Seeing my long legged grandmother at the table dressed in her finest Lilly..

Always Lilly..always a skirt...

Such amazing memories that will forever be held in my mind and can always take me out of the darkest of places..

For some reason..

I don't know..

maybe it's because in my home,

 I live in a man's world...

BUT

 I think I am in LOVE with pink...

what better way to honor pink??

With the most decadently delicious of all birds..

The  
Flamingo

Image by Chocolate Creative Design

1. Heidi Tulip Maxi Dress at Piperlime 2. Flamingo Plate at Lou Rota

3. Thibaut Flamingo Bay Wallpaper 4. Flamingo Printed Clutch at Browns

5. Flamingo by Abigail Brown  6. Handmade Knitted Baby Hat, Tail and Booties Set at Bouf

7. Flamingo Photograph by Sharon Montrose 8. Jack Rogers Vachetta at Piperlime

9. Flamenco Serving Platter at Zara Home  10. Coral Small Marine Tumbler at Zara Home 

11. Flamingo Mingle by Nancy Ramirez at Imagekind 12. Hooked Wool Flamingo Pillow at Newport Nautical Decor

So watch out Wesson men..

The times they are a changing...

Pink is on it's way....

Smiling Frogs...

Every year at this time, since I was a wee little girl, our family made the pilgrimage to visit my grandparents at a tiny oasis located in the middle of Florida. Being the Spring/Summer person that I am, it was like heaven when we stepped off the plane into the balmy night air which was infused with the scent of orange blossoms. When Morning broke, I jumped into a newly purchased sun dress (always with little brother in tow) and zoomed in the golf cart to the Colony House for a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit or orange juice. Once inside, and ALWAYS using our inside voices, was a sea of color. Corals, Pinks, and various shades of Green were splashed everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE and even on anyone...including a fabulous shade of coral on the tanned ladies lips who lunch.

It was such a nice departure from the cold damp winter and drab depressing landscape of the Northeast...Everything was alive...

It was a place where adult women wore smiling frogs on their skirts.

Since the passing of my grandmother, March is no longer the time of the pilgrimage to Florida. But it still lays inside me like a bird flying South for the winter...completely instinctual.

Recently, I found the MOST fabulous dress that my grandmother and the members of Mountain Lake would definitely approve of...

Perfectly sweet, perfectly colorful and most importantly perfectly appropriate.

If only I had a 26" waist this beauty would be mine in a heart beat...

But it can be yours...

For a little bit of Florida love you can find it at

Vintage Frocks of Fancy on Etsy.