wonderful Paris architecture
I see that Jean Nouvel has been awarded the 2008 Pritzker, a prize I haven’t been aware of before but apparently the highest award an architect can achieve. This news item only caught my eye…
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spring greens
I love the almost ghostly colours of this woodland plant, Jeffersonia diphylla (Twinleaf). The globular shape between the leaves in the photo below is a flowerbud. Look how many flowerbuds you can spot below. We’re…
View PostWild island treasure — and what I wore
I suppose the scene above looks rather scrubby, but it’s exemplary of what I’ve loved about our island since before we bought a place here: the ungroomed roadsides, with grasses that grow knee-to-hip-high in the…
View Postwhat I wore — the opera!
This picture’s neither flattering nor even very clear (in the photographer’s defense, it’s tough to photograph black) but supposedly it’s worth a thousand words. I’m posting it because I felt good about dressing for the…
View Posttrees are neighbours too!
I posted the other dayabout a new home being moved onto our island and some unhappiness about the damage the move did enroute — I wasn’t home when one of the neighbours circulated a petition…
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