Paris Shopping: Des Belles Addresses

We’re packing up this evening, and by this time tomorrow I’ll be cuddling a Five and a Three that I haven’t seen since they surprised me for that Really Big Birthday! Not much time to…

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Zagreb Style. . .

Do you remember that when I first visited Zagreb last year, Dottoressa introduced me to spica, the Zagrebian custom of dressing up and meeting friends for coffee on Saturday morning? Sadly, we didn’t have a…

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Zagreb: Photos and Journal Illustration

This will be a long-ish post, but mostly pictorial, and I thought I’d begin by offering you the agenda: 1. I’ll transcribe my journal entry for yesterday; 2. I’ll make a claim about Zagreb (it’s…

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Page from my Travel Journal. . . And Thoughts About Things We’re Not Good At

As promised, this watercolour sketch from the travel journal I’m gradually filling this trip. I should tell you that I began this page by trying to draw another very similar historical-architectural remnant, also being used…

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Postcards from Ston, Croatia

 I haven’t been pen-and-ink sketching in my written journal much this visit,  doing watercolour sketches in a separate journal instead (I’ll post my latest watercolour tomorrow or Wednesday, flaws and all). But a few mornings…

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