Jacques Henri Lartigue, French Photographer and Painter – 1894-1986
These beautiful photographs are found in a terrific book: Lartigue: Life in Color – I high recommend.
A Magazine of the Arts
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French Photographer and Painter – 1894-1986
These beautiful photographs are found in a terrific book: Lartigue: Life in Color – I high recommend.
I love photography, and Saul Leiter is one of my all time favorites. I like his style and the types of images he was able to capture. If you like his photographs too, you can watch a terrific documentary on Saul called, “In no great hurry”. I rented it through Vudu but I’m sure you can find it on other streaming services. It was filmed shortly before his passing in his New York apartment. An important street photographer, I hope you enjoy these 3 and go discover more.
Annemarieke van Drimmelen, Paris, 2014
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love,”
Frank O’Hara – Meditations in an Emergency
So, from where to where have we come in a few short months…sigh. If there is anything positive in all this craziness, it’s the coming together of people from around the world to cheer and entertain each other through free online classes, Tik Tok fun vids, etc. It’s a beautiful thing. So I have compiled a few of the ways I’m keeping busy (besides cleaning, cooking and organizing)…
Lifestyle Hacks
Entertainment
Well, there it is, hope it wasn’t too long a read – and I hope you all are staying home if possible and staying well. These are just suggestions, honestly the first week or two I just felt out of sorts and didn’t accomplish much except helping a family member with their taxes, taking short walks and staring at the TV totally lazy and that’s okay too. Times be strange, try your best to roll with it and get through this thing in one piece. Peace!
All sunsets are beautiful, some more than others…this one was stunning. The bare tree, against the purples and peaches of the evening sky held me for a time in wonder at God’s creative splendor – even with the very cold November breezes…
I can’t remember a first snow this early in November, usually a beautiful light snow happens on Thanksgiving… But this year, in Michigan, that lovely light snow began falling yesterday. I always enjoy the first snow, it energizes me and lifts up my countenance. It always feels like a fresh start, a renewing and the air never smells so clean as it does after a snow. I bundled up in my new coat and pink knit hat for a walk around the park and it was refreshing. Back home, I tucked into some homemade veggie soup (so easy to make) and felt like a kid again, home after walking from school.
In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees..
∼∼Mary Oliver
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!
Spent the afternoon at a local art fair. It was such an enjoyable day hanging out with interesting characters like this guy. Incredibly, he seemed to have no problem juggling, even at such heights. And then…
Hula Girls
This little girl was transfixed by this lovely lady, who had a talent for all things Hula. When I was this little one’s age, I loved my hula hoop and not just because it was my favorite color, pink. I got pretty good at it myself and I loved seeing the way she was studying the older girls moves. Then it was on to…
Corn Dog Palace…
I dubbed it thus as a play on the Corn Palace out west. This food truck was everything you could want in a summertime fair experience. Hot dogs, burgers and cool pop…what else do you want? Actually, they had so many food truck options, wraps, ice cream, lemonade and even authentic Polish food this time out. It was a beautiful, albeit quite hot, summertime day and everyone seemed to have great fun!