House & Home
Inner Space

• Inner Space:  A Room Filled with Sun {cont.}

• Weekend Warrior:  All Decked Out {cont.}

• Links to House & Home On-Line:  Deck Plans, Ideas & How-to's {cont.}

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Spacious or Quaint, Nothing Can Quite Compare with ...
A Room Filled with Sun

Give me the splendid silent sun with
all his beams full dazzling ...
Walt Whitman.

Sunroom of Bob & Beth Quackenbush {See this month's Gardening, Indoors & Out}

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One of the simpler pleasures of life must be to have the time to sit in the sun.  ...

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Mamma Louise {see our Food section for Mamma Louise's Kitchen} tells us that she loves to sit in the south-facing room of her apartment and draw the curtains back, especially on chilly days or in winter when, nonetheless, the sun shines bright.  ... 

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We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air...
                       Charlotte Brontë

Sunroom of Bob & Beth Quackenbush {See this month's Gardening, Indoors & Out}

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  Up here, too, we have a very modest little greenhouse.  ... 

  But even on chilly Spring days, the air in there will easily climb to tee-shirt temps by mid-morning.

  And the light that filters through the translucent panels transforms the place into something almost other-worldly. 

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Under the new-made clouds and happy as
     the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways ...
                                                 Dylan Thomas

And when the day has passed, and the sun takes to its setting, we're left with a gratitude which is nearly indescribable.  ...

     Light the first light of evening, as in a room
     In which we rest and, for small reason, think
     The world imagined is the ultimate good.
                                                        Wallace Stevens

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