I was in a used bookstore today looking for a treasure (you can always find a great book for a great deal) and today I found a winner. I am a big fan of sketchbooks that have been published such as "The Palm Beach Sketchbook" by Bill Olendorf and Agnes Ash.
So I was looking in The "Europe" section and I came across a book spine that caught my eye (as you can see it would by the pictures).
"Sara Midda's South of France" is a great sketchbook that was a journal carried by Midda filled with notations and pictures, from everything like palm trees to different foods to a collection of shoes.
Here is the text from the inside flap:From Sara Midda, whose first book evoked all the pleasures of an English garden, comes a wondrous sketchbook of a year's sojourn in the South of France. This is a very personal journal, crammed with images, notions and discoveries of the day-to-day. In tones of sea and morning sky, stucco and brick, olive leaf and apricot, rose and geranium, exquisite watercolors capture the landscape, the life, the shimmering air of a region beloved by all who have fallen under its spell.
Sara Midda's South of France is a place of ripening lemons and worn espadrilles, ochre walls and olive groves, and everything born of the sun. It lies between the Mediterranean and the Maritime Alps, and most of all in the artist's eye and passion."
So sometime go to a used bookshop, and if it looks pretty, judge a book by it's cover.
Happily, and Sincerely,
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