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Beautiful Valentine’s Day Thoughts…

14 Tuesday Feb 2023

Posted by Satin & Sand in Love, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Valentine's Day

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Chocolate Truffles, Emil Ludwig, Love, Photography, Valentine's Day

© Joan Currie My champagne and raspberry truffles.

Both feel that this first touch of a hand in a cab, even if it was expected by the woman, means a decision of the first order; it contains, basically, all of what is to follow. There is nothing to compare with this gesture in all the living together of human beings. The man felt nothing at all like this, when he kissed that hand of the lady, at their introduction, though he was in this way very close to a strange lady; but today, the little touch of her glove means a surrender that makes both tremble.
– Emil Ludwig

Happy Valentine’s Day, especially to those who truly and unabashedly take joy in making those they love feel cherished! ❤️

Beautiful Valentine’s Day Red…

14 Monday Feb 2022

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Domenico del Ghirlandaio, Red, Renaissance, Valentine's Day

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Diana Vreeland, Domenico del Ghirlandaio, Heart, Red, Renaissance, Valentine's Day

Detail of Old Man with a Young Boy by Domenico del Ghirlandaio

All of my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, “I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple” – they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
-Diana Vreeland

Pursuing my perfect Valentine’s red.

Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️

Beautiful Valentine’s Day plans…

07 Monday Feb 2022

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Relationships, Valentine's Day

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Love, Mary Oliver, New York City, Valentine's Day

© James Currie – NYC

In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird

with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us

he wants to go to sleep,
but he’s restless —
he has an idea,
and slowly it unfolds

from under his beating wings
as long as he stays awake.
But his big, round music, after all,
is too breathy to last.

So, it’s over.
In the pine-crown
he makes his nest,
he’s done all he can.

excerpt from White-eyes by Mary Oliver

I liked where we lingered and kissed and made plans for Valentine’s Day.

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