A House Blessing

This book blesses the physical house and the protection it offers, wishing for its inhabitants "a full portion of life's beauty." It then grows more specific, hoping for kindness, companionship, peace, orderliness and the happiness that overflows into celebration. Poltarnees, drawing upon his library of antique images, has added pictures which best give each thought its most vivid reality. This book makes an excellent gift for any house.

This book blesses the physical house and the protection it offers, wishing for its inhabitants "a full portion of life's beauty." It then grows more specific, hoping for kindness, companionship, peace, orderliness and the happiness that overflows into celebration.

WELLERAN POLTARNEES has a lifelong love of gardens. His first memory is falling out of his baby carriage and landing on a bed of odorous white flowers which not only kept him from injury, but made the experience a sensual delight. He collects books about, and pictures of, gardens — but there are few timeless things that he does not so honor. He uses a book called Great Gardens of the World as a guide whenever he travels, and, with the exception of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, which came highly recommended and which he found monotonous — the gardens have always refreshed him. His favorite time for gardens is night. His favorite garden music is Manuel De Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain," and his favorite garden poem is "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell.