Paris Parfait

Counting our blessings

Simple abundance...

...Praying for peace.

We are off to London. Wherever you may be, wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Images (top) of village market in Nepal and (below) garden at a Himalayan monastery. Click photos to view detail.

Metamorphosis

What remains: Gossamer wings to the edges of dreams (skeletal hortensia in our garden).  Click photos to view detail.

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France

"All things must change to something new, to something strange." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In this world of change, nothing which comes, stays and nothing which goes is lost." - Anne Sophie Swetchine

"The butterfly is a flying flower; the flower a tethered butterfly." - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

 

Reading:

Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Anthology magazine

Watching:

Linotype: The Film

Baking:

Lemon thyme loaf from Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries II

Listening:

Emeli Sande: Read all about it

Admiring:

An animated short film for Christian Dior, featuring Marion Cotillard

Learning:

Dutch (At least it's a start)