Bonni Brodnick Blog

"TALK OF THE TOWN" By Bonni Brodnick W hen I walked into Topiary – The Flower Shop , I felt like I had walked into a cozy, English potting house. In this unique setting, you’ll find hens and chicks in earthy pots, specialty begonias, double-topiaries, along with miniature and regular-size orchids. Sandy Wellons , owner and designer, creates sumptuous arrangements that go from sleekly elegant to English garden. An intricate pen and ink artist as well, she also has a keen eye for unusual vases, antique wire baskets and weathered wood flower boxes, which are great for plants and arrangements. (When you visit the shop, take note of the 15-pocket weathered-grey box with varied succulents. Okay, and this was another one of my favorites … a mini-orchid in a Nantucket basket. Absolutely beautiful.) The shop has a delivery zone within a 40-mile radius (which basically covers everywhere from Scarsdale to Peekskill). “We do flower arrangements for wedding, parties, and every-day fl...

By BONNI BRODNICK W e’re talking Corvettes, Thunderbirds, street rods, Vipers, and Mopars. We’re talking sport compacts and customs-lead sleds. We’re talking the 7th Annual Police Officer Tom Pisco Memorial Pound Ridge Car Show , sponsored by the Pound Ridge Police Benevolent Association , on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Pound Ridge Town Park. There will be 30 classes, plus “Best in Show” and “People’s Choice.” Good ol’ hometown fare with a southern twist will include a pulled-pork BBQ. Live acoustic and electric bluegrass, folk, country, pop and rock classics by the wowzer country rockers, Barnstorm, whose origin was rehearsing in a horse barn/recording studio in South Salem. All proceeds from the Car Show will benefit North East Westchester Special Recreation (www.northeastspecialrec.org), a community-based therapeutic recreation agency serving children and adults with developmental disabilities in northeast Westchester. “We chose Westchester Special Recreation to be...

By BONNI BRODNICK I s your skin feeling all fertootzed from sun and chlorine? Pound Ridger Mia Camacho-Fitzgerald is the balm. As founder of Clean Ridge Soap Company, she has discovered the elixir to make your skin feel replenished and renewed. Using only the best and purest products available, Mia makes bar and liquid soaps, lotions that contain such lushy natural ingredients as avocado butter, jojoba and olive oils. These veritable beauty potions also include essential oils of geranium, lavender, lemon grass, lime, peppermint and rosemary; as well as ground vanilla beans, almonds, oats, annatto seeds, sandalwood powder, ultramarine oxides and parsley for colorant “I started the business because I moved to Pound Ridge and my skin became dry and itchy from the well water,” Mia told us from her stand at the Farmer’s Market in front of Joan Silbersher’s Antiques & Tools of Business & Kitchen on Westchester Avenue. Mia took a class to learn how to make her own soap, and withi...

by BONNI BRODNICK G ather all ye townsfolk for the Pound Ridge Lions Club / Pound Ridge Recreation Commission Country Fair on Saturday, Sept. 12 from noon to 5 p.m. in the Town Park. This annual event is always a nice way to start the fall season. There will be games galore, inflatable thingamajigs for the kids to jump around on, a climbing wall, and hear those Lions rrrrrrroar as they BBQ hot dogs and hamburgers for the crowd. Did we mention music? A 50/50 raffle? Cool silent auction items — all generously donated by local merchants — include dinners at North Star and Bedford Post, a sculpture by the talented Zol Medvecky , a whole semester of dance classes at Torrie Marie’s School of Dance, a few weekend extravaganzas (how does Smuggler’s Notch, Vermont and the Caribbean grab you?), get-fit sessions, gift certificates at Pound Ridge Framing & Fine Art, and so much more. Community organizations participating in the country fair include the Pound Ridge Garden Club , Pound Ridge L...