Wednesday Woes and Wanderings

How’s that for a fanciful title? Not sure I can live up to it, and I’m rather exaggerating the woefulness. Never mind . . . Home sick again today — more days than I’ve ever…

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What a weekend!

Some images from the weekend: This was undoubtedly the best moment (Nola met her new cousin, Eloise), but there was also this Wherein we marvelled together at Brian Selznick’s magical pencil illustrations in The Invention…

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Running with my Camera**

Sometimes, gritty reality sets in. Sometimes, you realize that having a Lovely Lazy Weekend means that you have no time left during the week for decent blogging. Sometimes, you realize that your readers probably don’t…

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Sartorial Inspiration and its Down-to-Earth (Thud!) Translation. . .

Last week, Duchesse over at Passage des Perles blogged about this photo recently posted on Scott Schumann’s Sartorialist. Duchesse parsed the look to explain ways that we might get fresh looks from our wardrobe. She…

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Warning: Cute Kid and Granddad Photo

Absolutely gratuitous addition to yesterday’s post. Here’s a photo my daughter posted on Facebook today, taken when Pater was driving her and Harriet back to catch “the big ferry” — I do love the way…

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