14 Sunday Aug 2011
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© Joan Currie
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil.
Lord Tennyson
… an inviting place in which to take an afternoon nap.
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12 Friday Aug 2011
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© Joan Currie
And what is my true nature?… Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create. – Anaïs Nin
I love the sensual biomorphic lines of the vessels in the foreground.
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08 Monday Aug 2011
Posted in Music, Photography, Reflections
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14 Beautiful Summer Songs, America's Top Model, Don Henley, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, postaweek 2011
© Khrystyana Kazakova
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong,
After the boys of summer have gone.
Don Henley
1. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
2. Janis Joplin – Summertime
3. Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues
4. Seals & Croft – Summer Breeze
5. Don Henley – Boys of Summer
6. Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
7. Chad & Jeremy – Summer Song
8. Michel Legrand – Theme from Summer of ’42, The Summer Knows
9. Percy Faith – Theme from a Summer Place
10. Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer in the City
11. Astrud Gilberto – So Nice, Summer Samba
12. The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer
13. The Doors – Summer’s Almost Gone
14. It’s a Beautiful Day – Hot Summer Day
Model: Khrystyana Kazakova
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06 Saturday Aug 2011
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© Joan Currie
Though the great song return no more
There’s keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.
William Butler Yeats
I leave the sea at peace with my place in the world.
31 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. – Vincent van Gogh
I turned away from the shore and discovered another kind of beauty in the riot of flowers bounded by a weathered fence.
29 Friday Jul 2011
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© Olga Lacosta Photography
Am I making believe I see in you,
A man too perfect to be really true?
Do I want you because you’re wonderful,
or are you wonderful because I want you?
from Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein
My list of favorite love songs from musicals…
1. Cinderella – Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?
2. My Fair Lady – I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
3. Oliver – Where is Love?
4. Phantom of the Opera – All I Ask of You
5. Crazy for You – Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Passion – Happiness
7. A Little Night Music – Send in the Clowns
8. South Pacific – Some Enchanted Evening
9. Sound of Music – Something Good
10. Camelot – If Ever I Would Leave You
Model: Lauren DiMarco
24 Sunday Jul 2011
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beautiful, Harley Davidson, Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, Harley Davidson road trip, motorcycle, motorcycle road trip, Photography
© 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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23 Saturday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
I’m not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We’re talking about a Mozart of rock music. – Sean Lennon
My father’s shoes are too big for me, as well.
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22 Friday Jul 2011
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© Ryuuzaki Julio
He wants to remain within her, to lie blind in the furls of her flesh. – Anaïs Nin
I am in need of a sincere apology…
Models: Lauren DiMarco & Oleg Galagan
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21 Thursday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Although I am not planning to give up my present love (Rowan yarn), I have to confess that I am smitten with two others: Ozark Handspun and Be Sweet yarns. I plan to use all three when making Christmas gifts this year for my daughters.
British royalty fans will want to check out the July 20th posting of the Be Sweet Blog and the instructions for the shawl that Kate Middleton wore recently.
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