Today's Post

February 5, 2018 (036/365)

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."  - Phyllis Theroux

Week 6 - Vision: Alternating Rhythm

February 4, 2018 (035/365) "Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood." - Andy Goldsworthy

Week 6 - VISION: Alternating Rhythm [Alternate patterns of light to bring depth and rhythm to the photograph.] #dogwoodweek6, #dogwood52, #dogwood2018 •  f/1.8, 1/535, ISO25

National Marquette Day

February 3, 2018 (034/365)

"Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater." - Samar Mubarakmand

[In other words, "Be the Difference!" Happy Marquette Day!]

French Friday: Les Crêpes

February 2, 2018 (033/365) • Groundhog Day | La Chandeleur

« À la Chandeleur, l'hiver cesse ou reprend vigueur; Chandeleur couverte, quarante jours de perte. »

I definitely prefer the French holiday and its tradition of eating crêpes to our American Groundhog Day. Yet la Chandeleur also comes with weather predictions:  "On Candlemas, winter ends or strengthens; If covered with snow, forty days to go." It's almost like waiting for the groundhog to see his shadow, but much more delicious!

Crêpes aux Gourmandises du Trocadéro - février 2017

Mini Month

February 1, 2018 (032/365) "They are not long, the days of wine and roses..." - Ernest Dowson... in fact, they are only twenty-eight -- a "mini-month!"

Although many dread another month of darkness and cold winter weather, I rejoice in these twenty-eight days of pretty crimson hues, of hearts and flowers and beautiful snowscapes, punctuated by celebrations of la Chandeleur, the Winter Olympics, Mardi gras, Valentine's Day, and my birthday -- the exclamation point at the end of this lovely month! 

January in Pictures

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson