Edwardian era home of T.C. Steele

I've mentioned before that he is my current favorite painter.  In May of 2013, on Mother's Day I took a drive with my mother to the T.C. Steele home in Brown Country, Indiana.    He and his second wife (his first wife died) named it House of the Singing Winds because of the winds that blew around it.
It is such a simple home, built for a painter and his wife to retire in and paint the rest of his days.  His wife Selma, planted the gardens and made the place beautiful. 
The drive up to the home was just gorgeous - and here it was (is still).

My mother took a number of pictures of her own.  She did stained glass in her day.

It really is a small home and later on a separate studio was built.

To me these picture just makes my heart soar.  The paintings are sublime and the setting just wonderful. 

The tour started in the studio and than went on to the house.  Here we are approaching the home.

There is a pergola built off the entrance with a marvelous twining some kind of plant or other I cannot now recall what it is but Selma planted it.

And the inside is, to me, cozy and elaborate yet simple.

Lots of books in their living room, they were both avid readers.  T.C. Steele also had a Gramaphone and began each day with classical music played loudly.   The local farmers didn't mind.

Here you can see the silhouette of a fine settee.

This is a painting of Selma.  I like the vase of peacock feathers below it.

Here is a picture of a samovar that was with the Steele family since the days of his first wife.  Next to it on the right is the closet Selma had built to house her dishes (since it was not a large dining room and she needed a place to store them) and which the local people then thought the most outlandish thing - storing decorative dishes!

And the last picture is from the drive home.  I snapped it either while driving or just by pulling over very briefly.  I took a lot of pictures as it was so beautiful and bucolic that day.  I plan to turn some of these pictures into paintings one day - when I retire.  When I retire (in 4 years) I want to paint like TC Steele did the last 18 years of his life from aged 60-78.     The last picture is a painting I made of our backyard in a previous home.  I made the frame too.