Although they can sometimes look a bit like high-end postcards, these collage-photos are infallibly elegant and lovely; indeed, the best of them are magical, the twisting, threadlike structure of the branches turning almost angelic in silhouette.
It's a compendium of archival odds and ends: postcards, snapshots, arcane pronouncements.
Currently listed by David Stanley Emile Garcin Properties, the enchanting estate is practically a high-end postcard.
Rent a golf cart (many of the 200-some full-time inhabitants use them to get around the island) or hop on an informative bike tour with Water Island Adventures that ends at postcard-perfect Honeymoon Beach.
By evening's end, six of the postcard paintings had sold, for $500 each.
The postcards then ended with the act taking a picture on a camera or phone and a close up of the resulting artwork was shown onscreen.
One way or another, these women end up in picture-postcard little snowy towns, with names like Christmas Valley, where they learn the most important lesson: Christmas is no crass commercial holiday but rather the season to rediscover love, especially family love, all over again.
"I'm rather shy on these matters," his postcard ended, "so if you're not particularly interested I'd much prefer not to waste your time, etc;".
Rangers can also schedule S.U.V. shuttle rides to places like Lobo Canyon, where a meandering hike starts in a forest of island oak, drops into sandstone caverns like something out of a Dr. Seuss book and ends at a postcard-perfect cove.
If your postcard ended up feeling heavy and thick after you decorated and sealed it, you might want to use a letter stamp instead of a postcard stamp.
Pinned to the end of the bookcase are postcards of assorted pinups - Audrey Hepburn, the James brothers, Erasmus, Louise Brooks, flame-haired Algernon Swinburne and Canova's stony Venus.
