21 Monday Feb 2011
Posted in Fashion, Health, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Taking some much needed time to refuel…
Model – Lauren DiMarco
20 Sunday Feb 2011
Posted in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing
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beautiful, Beauty, BMW, Canon PowerShot, Coach, KitchenAid mixer, Lauren DiMarco, Lululemon, Photography, postaweek2011, Swatch, Swiss Army knife
© Studio La Donna
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In addition to my umbrella (it is raining heavily today), below is a list of my favorite things:
1. iPhone (a friendship that has turned to love)
2. Eiderdown comforter (800 fill count)
3. Chronicle Books Journal by Julia Rothman
4. 2001 BMW X5 (nothing beats driving it on mountain roads)
5. Swiss Army knife (Boy Scout Explorer model)
6. Coach black high heel shoes
7. Elna sewing machine (I have replaced the motor twice and will not part with it)
8. Vintage Beaver Canoe sweatshirt (very cozy)
9. KitchenAid countertop commercial mixer
10. Lululemon yoga pants (very slimming)
Model – Lauren DiMarco
18 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography
© Joan Currie
Clothing should not mask a person, but enhance one.
Richard Bengtsson & Edward Pavlick
What do you do when you find the perfect dress and your mother (or sister or friend) tells you it is nice but impractical and so you pass on it, but spend the rest of the season regretting your decision?
16 Wednesday Feb 2011
Posted in Photography, Travel
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Agra, beautiful, Beauty, India, Photography, postaweek, Shah Jahan, Taj Mahal
© Mona Currie
A teardrop of love on the cheek of eternity. – Rabindranath Tagore
(describing Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal – a tomb and tribute for his wife).
My mother photographed the Taj Mahal during a visit to India in 1967.
© Mona/Joan Currie
14 Monday Feb 2011
Posted in Photography, Reflections
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beautiful, Beauty, Photography, postaweek2011, Redwood forest, Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Steam train
© Joan Currie
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man. – Thomas Jefferson
I had the pleasure of meeting this trainman today after riding the historic Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad steam train through the redwood forest.
© Joan Currie
11 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Art, Photography, Reflections
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Art, beautiful, Beauty, Heart, Heart candy, Love, Love Poem, Photography, postaweek2011, Valentine's Day
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
11 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections
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beautiful, Beauty, Fashion, George Eliot, Great love, Love, Photography, postaweek2011, Valentine's Day
© Ryuuzaki Julio
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined…to strengthen each other…
to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot
If I had known that he was going to be my only great love, I would never have let him go.
Model – Micha Borodaev
10 Thursday Feb 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections
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beautiful, Beautiful eyes, Beauty, C.N. Prekumar, Fashion, Love Poem, Love postaweek2011, Moja Maat, Photography, Valentine's Day, Words
© Moja Ma’at
The stars try to imitate the glitter in your eyes
But fail helplessly and cry for your sight
To pacify my heart which pounds and weep
To see you till its last beat.
from The Glitter in Your Eyes – C. N. Premkumar
This Valentine’s Day take a moment to behold your lover’s beautiful eyes.
Model – Erin Leeper
Photographer – Moja Ma’at
08 Tuesday Feb 2011
Posted in Garden, Photography, Reflections
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beautiful, Beauty, cupid, Garden, garden sculpture, Love, Photography, postaweek2011, Valentine's Day
© Joan Currie
Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.
This little messenger of love sits by my garden wall.
06 Sunday Feb 2011
Posted in Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel
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beautiful, Big Trees & Pacific, Caboose, Locomotive, Memoir, Photography, postaweek2011, Reflections, Train, Train Yard
© Joan Currie
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. – Orison Swett Mardone
I love to travel by train! My favorite train ride was during the summer after grade ten when I traveled with my best girlfriend from Calgary to Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies. We both fell hopelessly in love with a handsome university student who boarded the train in Revelstoke and spent more time looking at him than the glorious scenery all around us.
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
Satin & Sand 