I've placed an order with them from reading this article. I ordered oxblood lilies, red spider lily, and some jonquils. I'm all for supporting Texas companies. Too many of them are way north, and their stuff struggles to survive down here in Texas.

beginner's eye, "...your assuming the person apologizes and accepts your apology. what if they don't. is that the fault of the parent as well..." I'm going to take....fault of the parent out of this equation and provide another example here. Perhaps a non-apology was given. I have an older sister, who I'm estranged from. She was given to periodic calls out of the blue. Usually, she would rage at me, criticize, judge, etc. Sadly, she just could never connect to my feelings. The point is that it was all about her and her feelings. I got used to her negative judgments and criticisms. She was very aggressive, although I'm convinced that she never saw herself as an aggressive person. She always framed me as the problem. Once, at the urging of some therapy group she decided to make another call. By this time I equated all phone calls and every interaction with her as emotionally painful. As charastic of her, she demanded to know why I avoided her. My sister could never, never see how hurtful her behavior was. EVER! Then she said to me, "...If I apologize, will it make things better?" This took me by surprise and there was a long history of her emotional outbursts, anger and denial. I responded saying I guess so. Then she got mad. Then immediately after she made another very telling comment, she said,"I DON'T GET ANY OF THIS." I was in therapy at the time and discussed her non-apology with my therapist and why I felt it was insincere--it was a very telling comment to me. She was apologizing for behavior that she didn't UNDERSTAND, because as she said, "She didn't get any of this." Neither could the rest of my family and the rage, anger and blame continued from them. My response was to distance myself even further. The concept here is that if someone truly doesn't understand how hurtful and destructive their behavior is (and will not own it and don't understand it), then I'm certain that the behavior will continue and there will be repetition. This may not be the best example, but think of a wife-beater who abuses his wife, then profusely apologizes with flowers, gifts and she reconciles. Then he beats her again, even more cruely than the first time. Then her well-meaning friends or relatives say, "she allowed herself to be manipulated, abused," or they may encourage her to "forgive and forget". Plenty of people MINIMIZE emotional abuse and the damage it creates, because unlike physical abuse you can't see it, therefore if you can't see it, it must not exist. I can assure you my estrangement from my sister is NOT TO PUNISH her. It is 100% about PROTECTING MYSELF and PROTECTING my emotions. It is not because I do not want "...resolution/reconciliation/closure/healing". Of course, I want that. I also want change and I want her destructive behaviors to STOP. I want her to demonstrate AWARENESS and I want to be convinced that she UNDERSTANDS why she is apologizing. I'm not interested in prolonging the conflict. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN PROLONGING EMOTIONAL ABUSE with someone who DOESN'T UNDERSTAND my feelings. I am also not looking for perfection of character. Responsibility and awareness, YES. That is what I am looking for. My intest is in preserving some sense of myself and protecting myself. I posted on another thread about the Art of Apologizing.

Update - still working on it. With it being summer, a lot of people are on vacation and it makes contacting the right person difficult. Also, the banks don't want to release the information so I'm having to really push them for information. I think part of the issue is that the company/bank that siezed the merchandise didn't follow the proper channels and file with the town so they aren't really willing to admit that they didn't do it correctly. Rubyfig- thanks for the tip. One of the banks is public, so I'll try it. The other is a government loan for business, and we all know how easy the government is to work with... I'll be back with more information in a few days.

Thanks, Anglo. Lovely house, and I agree with you about the warmth and comfort of the interiors. Just a guess, but I think Anglo might prefer posting to this forum rather than the Home Decorating forum, which has become a hit and run venue with questions about shades of grey paint and shiplap. And I suspect Emily Summers' use of the word Bauhaus in reference to the house's profile perhaps raised some hopes here; and then of course copy editors rather than writers are responsible for headlines. But generally articles written for the "On Location" column in the real estate section tend to focus at least as much on the interiors as the exteriors. The columnist, Tim McKeough, is a design writer who's also written for Elle Decor and Architectural Digest (which for a long time now has focused more on interior design than architecture). This article was of course, as McKeough noted, inspired by the publication this month of Ms. Summers’s new book, “Distinctly Modern Interiors”. The current Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, turns up often in the news pages because he writes about urban affairs, infrastructure, public spaces, and social equity; he was on the front page recently on rebuilding in Puerto Rico. It can be hard to figure out what section an article is in nowadays when reading online rather than with a(n ever-shrinking) paper copy. While her work might not be to every taste, Summers is definitely not a hobbyist or a dilettante, with her work having been published in Architectural Digest (and also named to the AD100 several times), Vogue, and House Beautiful and the book published by Rizzoli. She's a long-standing member of ASID, and as the article mentioned, there's a distinct Dallas interior design style, often with a French flavor. Also worth noting that some of Summers's inspirations include the decorators Henri Samuel, known for his use of "le goût Rothschild" (definitely Dallas!) and considered by AD as a "supreme master of progressive historicism"; and TH Robsjohn-Gibbings, who designed the dining room's klismos chairs.