Beginning Over Again with the Summer

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." 

- Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby 

It's the start of the Memorial Day weekend here in the US and a bank holiday weekend in England, the unofficial start of summer.  It doesn't really feel like summer though with all the weird weather. Let's just look at these images and pretend shall we?  

Bon weekend! 

Elizabeth Dinkel

 Le Domaine aux Quat Saison

Brigitte Bardot

Aerin Lauder

via House & Home

Kiera Knightley in Atonement

Gabriella Crespi

via Veranda

via ELLE DECOR

Crisp

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- Jordan Baker, The Great Gatsby

Everything's Coming Up Daisy

It was interesting to hear that Carey Mulligan was just selected by Baz Luhrman to play Daisy Buchanan in his new adaption of The Great Gatsby.  The 1974 version staring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow is considered to be a classic so it seems a little weird that Baz Luhrmann would remake it at all.  I'm curious to see if Ms. Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio, who will be playing Jay Gatsby, can live up the original.  What do you think?