Louise

Happy New Year, Louise!

Audrey Louise Reynolds is an artisan living in Upstate New York.

Louise has traveled a lot for London recently.

Louise only wears asymmetrical dresses.

Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore

That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?

I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.