12 Wednesday Sep 2012
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© Joan Currie – Blue bridge in Dublin, Ireland
Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Trying to make every parting a beautiful memory…
© Joan Currie – Morning blues – I will miss the lattes and banana bread!
© Joan Currie – My favorite antique store…
10 Monday Sep 2012
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© Joan Currie – Fusilier’s Arch, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde
I was utterly and pleasantly seduced by all that was Dublin these last two weeks.
23 Saturday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco – Harlem
The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I’m on my own
It’s too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go.
lyrics from Cruel Summer by Bananarama
Sometimes the details create the bigger picture.
(Note: Einstein had a different idea about the sum of its parts.)
14 Thursday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
Stepping out after months of planning!
21 Monday May 2012
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© Joan Currie – Times Square, NYC
You only live once!!! Get busy!
Sean “Diddy” Combs
For some reason, I kept expecting to see your face in the crowd.
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22 Thursday Sep 2011
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…we progress from being voyeurs, which we always are when we look at other people’s pictures, to excavators, combining our memories for what we may recognize from our own family albums, from our own lives. We look for us. – Michael Kimmelman
This lifeguard chair on Vancouver’s North Shore evokes very strong memories of my summers as a pool lifeguard.
22 Thursday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie
Sometimes the rare, the beautiful, can only emerge or survive in isolation. In a similar manner, some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. – Loren Eiseley from The Night Country
When I shifted my focus from the water to the shore, I beheld many acts of creation.
24 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
A great trip in a car is like watching a first-rate movie — but a great trip on a motorcycle is like living the movie. – CNN, American Road Trips
This lucky Harley man and his Blintze Boys buddies (below) stopped in Half Moon Bay before cruisin’ up the coast.
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10 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
by Lord Byron
I wonder what this child is thinking as she looks out on this vast sea…
03 Tuesday May 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco on Oakland Bay Bridge near the Island
Within the portion of San Francisco Bay lying inside the city limits are the natural islands of Alcatraz and Yerba Buena and man-made Treasure Island, created for a world’s fair in 1939 and later turned into a naval base (1941–93). – Encyclopedia Britannica
1. Best location to view San Francisco’s nightscape and holiday fireworks!
2. Spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, especially during Fleet Week in October.
3. Easy access to the city of San Francisco via the Oakland Bay Bridge (no toll required).
4. Former military barracks have been converted to affordable rental housing.
5. Event facilities are available for corporate and private events (such as weddings, concerts).
6. It is home to a feral cat community.
7. Sea lions frequent the waters nearby.
8. Halibut, stripers, rockfish, and shark have been caught from along its western shore.
9. Clipper Cove is home to the Treasure Island Yacht Club.
10. Great spot to view the construction of the eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Model – Lauren DiMarco
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