"I write with light
and the light of Paris
helped me express what I felt
and what I feel: J’aime Paris"
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Showing posts with label Light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Light. Show all posts
Rentrée and the First Signs of Fall
9.09.2015
• FamilyLasting ImpressionsLight
School is back in session... and so we return to the jolting rhythm of schedules and routine. The shift is sudden and surprising, even if it happens every year, my family never seems to get used to it.
There is alas a season for all things, and now we rise before the sun and have breakfast with the dim glow of dawn. The boys have readied their desks for homework and reading, and my eldest is already having to memorize poems from Jean de La Fontaine...
The light and temperatures have also signaled a change, Fall is certainly making its way into the landscape. Are you ready?
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Montmartroise Light & Paris Rooftops
10.12.2014
• Around ParisLasting ImpressionsLight
The other morning I headed to Montmartre to run an errand near the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. After descending the bus at Pigalle and making my way up the hill, I turned and became mesmerized by the streaming sunlight luminous over the rambling rooftops of Paris. I started walking to follow it, to try and take it all in, turning only to have it sweep me from the shadows into another veil of golden light... one street after another, up and down the hills, turning onto hidden corners of dappled light and finally getting lost within the cobblestoned maze of Montmartre...
There are so many must-do's on a visitor's list, and I'd have to add (or reiterate) this one if I may - a morning in Montmartre as a light seeker. To me, this is the Paris that consumes your very core and stays with you forever and ever, pour toujours et à jamais...
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Morning Light in Paris
9.21.2014
• Lasting ImpressionsLight
Some Paris mornings draw you into their slow sleepy entrance into the day... like a lantern's flame, the sky's shifting shades gently wakes and illuminates the city in the most subtle fiery light.
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Morning Light
4.13.2014
• Lasting ImpressionsLightLWSQuotes
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that,
during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen.
And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot.
The possibility is always there.
- Monica Baldwin
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Project 52: Warmth
Warmth was the latest Project 52 theme over at My Four Hens, and so I shot this little blanket that kept me and my family warm during the chilly winter. I crocheted it a few years ago as a tutorial to practice the V-stitch. A lazy stitch really, one that allows you to finish a project pretty quickly (since quickly was all the time I had). So it was completed fast and is much smaller than it should be. Not quite the size of a full throw, our feet were always protruding out of it into the cold.
Nevertheless, my boys and I craved its warmth, and I loved that we would try to huddle underneath it together (like elephants cramming into a VW beetle during a snowstorm).
If you're participating in a P365/P52, I'd love to know how it's going...
Ribbons & Light | Rubans et Lumière
It's been a blur of golden ribbon and gift wrap as a load of Christmas packages for family and friends were readied and shipped to France this past weekend... completing this annual tradition is an enormous feat in our household, and we celebrated by putting up the tree and finally getting to enjoy the glow of Christmas lumières...
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