These beautiful portraits were the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
I just love to look at the fashions of yesteryear. I also enjoy buying antiques prints for my home.
Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland,1904
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892-93
Miss Helen Dunham 1892
The Acheson sisters
Mrs. Henry White 1883
Izme Vickers 1907
I hope you enjoy these portraits as much as I do.
Hugs,
Ellen
and
Two Years ago my husband and I bought this hydrangea at Sam's club. That day he planted it, and we got a quick frost and the bush turned brown and mushy. I thought it was a goner. I can not believe how much this plant had rebounded. This fall she is still going strong well into October. She has a good variety of colors, even new buds.....
from blue to light pink
or
Blue to dark pink
New buds just opening
original blue
from blue to pinks, purples
We are expecting frost tonight, so the leave may turn brown and mushy once again. I always look forward to a new hydrangea season.
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Hedda Hopper
Birth:
May 2, 1890
Death:
Feb. 1, 1966
Actress, Journalist. Despite a 23 year career that encompassed over 120 motion picture appearances and chorus girl roles on Broadway to motion pictures, she is best remembered for her newspaper column and radio show that focused exclusively on Hollywood gossip, a subject she was able to tell more about to her audience due to her Hollywood insider status. Born Elda Furry in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, she left school to act on Broadway. In 1913 she married marquee star William DeWolfe, a man who was 32 years her senior. They had one son, and divorced in 1922, but she kept his name for the rest of her life (and changed her name to Hedda on the advice of a numerologist). In 1931 she began “The Hedda Hopper Show”, which initially ran as a 15 minute gossip show mostly devoted to Hollywood marriages and divorces. Enormously popular, it ran until 1951, and on the strength of its popularity she started the “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” column in the Los Angeles Times in 1938. She steadily gained a reputation for exposing tidbits about the lives of Hollywood figures, and created a character of herself in her own right, especially in regard to her vast collection of sometimes outrageous hats, and a long standing feud with rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons. With the advent of television’s popularity in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he radio show waned, but she herself became a staple of television programs and game shows, being a frequent panelist on “What’s My Line?’, and appear on shows like “I Love Lucy”, “The Colgate Variety Hour” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”. In 1960 she received the Journalistic Merit award, and published her autobiography “The Whole Truth and Nothing But!”, which recapped her over 20 years or being an Hollywood insider. She died in Los Angeles of double pneumonia in 1966, working right up until her passing. As a Hollywood icon, she created a number of friends and enemies; she gave harsh advice to actress Ida Lupino, which helped her gain recognizable part, but was despised by actress Joan Bennett, who once sent her a skunk. In 1985 a movie about the feud between her and Parsons was released as “Malice in Wonderland”, which Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper and Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons
