Good morning, family. I was about to write this on my Rachel's House blog,, when it occurred to me that you might enjoy seeing it here. Chapel Hill 7:00am, Saturday, 31 degrees It's a rainy February morning, cold too, so I'm propped in bed reading and jotting my to-do list for today, every now and then glancing out the window at the birds who skitter between the feeder on my neighbor's high window and the brass tray outside in my low garden. What catches my eye just now, though, is inside, on the wall slightly to right of my usual view...Elizabeth Matheson's photograph of a back porch behind the old Colonial Inn in Hillsborough. She'd put it up on Instagram after she took it early one morning...probably about the same early hour I am looking at it now. The minute I saw it, I wanted it for my own. It reminds me, I wrote her, of my grandmother's and great-aunts' dresses. Elizabeth, whose work I admir...
