Insights - Melannie Thomas

06/02/2025

06/02/2025

We are very proud to launch a national milkweed planting campaign to restore monarch butterfly and native pollinator populations in the country.

We are pleased to offer a 30% discount on the purchase of 4 or more bags of our farm-grade milkweed seeds, including shipping! To purchase, just follow the link below and enter the code MILKWEED30 during checkout.

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Here is a simple, powerful and easy way to bring back beautiful indigenous plants, monarch butterflies and wild pollinators right where they belong in our ecosystems. 🌱🐝🦋

05/30/2025

Milgard Vinyl Stacking Patio Doors

Exhibiting the latest in engineering technology, stacking patio doors stack on top of each other, producing a large opening that seamlessly blends the interior with the exterior. These stacking doors are easy to operate and feature state-of-the-art hardware.

05/28/2025

05/28/2025

Happy birthday to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)! 🎂 Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, Cassatt spent most of her life in Paris, where she exhibited with the Impressionists. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of women and children going about their daily lives, such as "Young Girl Reading" (1894). Here, Cassatt’s focus is on the reader’s concentration, as seen in how she has built up the tones of the subject's face and hands. By approaching her images concretely and sympathetically, Cassatt declared that women should be portrayed as individuals and challenged stereotypical presentations of women in art of the late 19th century.

🎈 Read into it: Encounter Mary Cassatt's "Young Girl Reading (Jeune fille lisant)" (1894) in "Revolutions," only at the Hirshhorn.

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Image credit: Mary Cassatt, "Young Girl Reading (Jeune fille lisant)," 1894. Pastel on paper. The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981. Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

05/28/2025