16 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Art, Garden, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie - My Valentine Roses
She comes not when Noon is on the roses —
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.
But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me.
by Herbert Trench
The sweet fragrance of last night lingers…
14 Tuesday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie
Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other!
How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always,
to talk to and sit with.
Let’s be a comfortable couple.
by Charles Dickens
Nothing is better than snuggling up with a loved one on this day!
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12 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie - The South San Francisco Bay
Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear’d open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix’d, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And, gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And through their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I basked in the glorious but fleeting sunset.
12 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Ryan Chua
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
from I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke
Thinking back to my best Valentine’s Day celebrations…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
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10 Friday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie – Red Shoes watercolor
Julian?
Yes, my darling?
Take off the red shoes.
from The Red Shoes movie (1948)
My red shoes for tripping the light fantastic on February 14th.
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05 Sunday Feb 2012
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beautiful, Carmen Campos, Fashion, Help, Janet Lewis, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Poetry, Postaweek 2012
© Carmen Campos
In the warm, lofted air,
Soft lips together pressed,
Soft wispy hair,
She stops to rest,
from Girl Help by Janet Lewis
Savoring little pockets of time throughout the day…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
01 Wednesday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie – Seated Student sketch
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as is his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. – Emerson
A diligent student at work…
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28 Saturday Jan 2012
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© Pat Ramos
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
I wish I could savor the first blush of young love over and over again.
Model: Ukushu Khrystyna
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25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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© Joan Currie – Wingback Chair Watercolor
Fraenkel loved my home, the idea of a house, a home as a pivot, a base, a hub. Henry, the vagabond, was amazed at Fraenkel’s assertion that this was necessary to creation, that rolling and drifting prevented growth, that this was the way to grow and expand. – from the Diary of Anaïs Nin
The muse visits me when I am curled up reading in my favorite wingback chair.
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25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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beautiful, Fashion, Juliette Drouet, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Lydia Hudgens, Photography, Postaweek 2012
© Lydia Hudgens
If you only knew how much I love you, how essential you are to my life, you would not dare to stay away for an instant, you would always remain by my side, your heart pressed close to my heart, your soul to my soul.
Juliette Drouet
I cannot bear another day without you.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
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