Lucy Chadwick via The Selby

A Movable Feast

A Moveable Feast is one of my all time favorite books. I love his description of Paris and the moments that he encounters. I would love to trek down to Key West and visit Hemingway's house.

image found here

Bluebells

Ever since watching the movie I Capture the Castle and hearing the main character talk about the scent of bluebells, I have wanted that scent in my life.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis

found here and here

Oprah

Green With Avocado Envy

I recently made fried avocados for a dinner party I was invited to. They were quite the hit. Dipping can come in all forms, I recommend:

Ketchup with a little sriracha sauce mixed in
Brianna's Honey Mustard (with the avocado on the label)
A warmed up cheese and cream sauce

Even the non-avocado obsessed attendees (I know, they're out there. Can you believe it?!) were obsessed !

recipe from The Food Network.

Scrabble

A serious family past-time.
I'd like to play with lions cheering me on.

Sidewalk Games

Twister at the drop of a hat? Yes, Please!

image from Maison des Reveries

Alice and A Spot of Tea

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea,
which is one you forget about after wards.
A.A. Milne

Rock the Kasbah

Leaving for Morocco in exactly 2 weeks!
national geographic online

Women I hope to look like one day

Read the article here.

Starting Up Again

found here

reactivation.

Chocolate Caramel Tart

Lottie + Doof

Rooftop

on the lookout, after a corn-on-the-cob-dinner.

June 2009.

Skin

Skin remembers how long the years grow

when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel
of singleness, feather lost from the tail
of a bird, swirling onto a step,
swept away by someone who never saw
it was a feather. Skin ate, walked,
slept by itself, knew how to raise a
see-you-later hand. But skin felt
it was never seen, never known as
a land on the map, nose like a city,
hip like a city, gleaming dome of the mosque
and the hundred corridors of cinnamon and rope.

Skin had hope, that’s what skin does.
Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.
Love means you breathe in two countries.
And skin remembers—silk, spiny grass,
deep in the pocket that is skin’s secret own.
Even now, when skin is not alone,
it remembers being alone and thanks something larger
that there are travelers, that people go places
larger than themselves.

"Two Countries"

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Bust

Carnevalet Museum, Paris, Winter 2008

Resolution-Making

1. Watch all of Jean-Luc Godard's films.

2. Watch every Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire Film I can find.

3. Cook something new each week.

4. Drink good amounts of Red Wine.

5. Yoga a few times each week.

6. Save money for more traveling.

7. Sit out on the fire-escape and watch the world go by more often.

india in 6 days...

i leave for india soon soon soon!

i cannot wait to see old friends, take photographs, explore, have adventures, take trains and hike in the foothills of the himalayas...

xrays and bones

a piece i made this fall.

SugarCane

all images found somewhere i can't remember..

Man On Wire

Man on Wire

hah.

whaaaat. best ad evaaaa.

found here

i've had this photo as my background on my computer for ages. i would love my next place to have a kitchen like this. black and white checked floors are a must.

BowTie Ring Tattoo

found here