Marie Viljoen
- Occupation: Garden designer, writer
- Location: Brooklyn : New York
About Me
Born in Bloemfontein, came of age in Cape Town, grew up in New York. When not in garden design mode I freelance food, travel and garden-related posts, articles and photographs. To email me: marieyviljoen(at)gmail(dot)com.
Is that proper coffee???
Interests
- Food
- Flowers
- Photography
- Books
- Real men
- Real women
- Tall green-eyed Canadians
- Cats
- Wine
- Water
- Picnics
- Planting things
- Eating things
- Writing things
- Riding runaway horses
- Laughing like a hyena
Favorite Movies
- Bunny Love
- The English Patient
- Cabaret
- Pulp Fiction
- Bladerunner
- Fargo
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Right Stuff
- Babette's Feast
- Moonstruck
- Apocalypse Now
- Crimson Tide
- Sergio Leone
- Shawshank Redemption
- Jean Reno
- Oceans 11 - then and now
- The Italian Job - then and now
- Casino Royale - now not then
- The Thomas Crowne Affair - then and now
- Time of the Gypsies
- Dennis Potter TV
- 30's and 40's stuff
Favorite Music
- Rain on a tin roof
- silence
- Bach
- Johnny Cash
- Jerry Douglas
- Bowie
- Kraftwerk
- Nina Simone
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Handel
- Angelique Kidjo
- but mostly rain on a tin roof
- or silence
Favorite Books
- Cormac McCarthy
- Faulkner
- Walker Percy
- MFK Fisher
- Wendell Berry
- Ondaatje
- Tolstoy
- Turgenev
- Dostoevsky
- Saramago
- Isak Dinesen
- TE Lawrence
- Rumer Godden
- Marlene van Niekerk
- Antjie Krog
- Karel Schoeman
- Nabokov
- Patrick O'Brian
- George Eliot
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- William Gibson
- Dumas
- Dan Sleigh
- Peter Mathiessen
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The Libe ob Don Estorbo de la Bodega Dominicana | |
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| 66 Square Feet |
