D'Angelines love a reason to celebrate, and of all the annual reasons to celebrate, Alcuin's favorite is spring. So he's prepared a vast picnic outside, with plenty of sweets and baked goods along with other foods, and bottles of cordials, sparkling wines and juices, bouquets of flowers from the gardens and wildflowers from the meadows. Alcuin ( Read more... )

A small girl, no more than three or four, enters the mansion. She is dressed in a simple white gown with a wide sash and her straw hat is slipping off her head. A wooden fashion doll is clutched in one hand and a rather bedraggled bunch of flowers in the other. She frowns for a moment, because she doesn't remember this place. But she soon ( Read more... )