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Train Yard…

06 Sunday Feb 2011

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© 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

Stained Glass Window…

05 Saturday Feb 2011

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© Joan Currie

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well. I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray…
California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas

I stopped into a chapel and photographed this charming stained glass window located directly behind the altar (detail shown above).

First Kiss…

04 Friday Feb 2011

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© William Cardoza

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I have always found time to teach them. – Mae West

The kids in my old neighborhood were mad about kissing! I am not sure whether this was due to a proximity to the 49th parallel, a noxious substance in the drinking water, or an abnormally high level of red dye in our bloodstreams from ingesting copious amounts of Jello, lollipops, and popsicles. Whatever the reason, nearly every game that we played, from flag to tag to hide-and-seek, had some kissing component connected with it.

The boy next door, two years older than I, was the dreamiest boy on the planet. He attracted not only girls but also boys to play in his backyard. It was he who conceived and organized all the games with a complicated set of regulations that always ruled in his favor and gave him the license to kiss any and every girl he pleased.

I would like to report that my heart throb neighbor was the one who had planted the first kiss on my lips. He had so much practice, that I am sure he had perfected the art of kissing to a “T.” Unfortunately, one of his protégées tackled me in a round of tag and pressed his lips against mine before I could resist. Since then, every time I see a slimy earthworm lying on the sidewalk after a rain, I am reminded of that first kiss.

Model – Lauren DiMarco

37 Beautiful Love Songs…

02 Wednesday Feb 2011

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© Owen Buenaventura

As in the movie, High Fidelity, it can be very tricky coming up with just the right playlist to set the stage for L-O-V-E on Valentine’s Day. My list (a work in progress) is somewhat ecclectic, but I hope it will set the mood just the same!

1.  When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge
2.  Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard
3.  Kiss – Tom Jones
4.  Marie – Randy Newman
5.  Michelle – Beatles
6.  L’Amour existe encore – Celine Dion
7.  It had to be You – Rod Stewart
8.  Say that you love me – Loudon Wainwright
9.  Besame Mucho – Diana Krall
10. One Fine Day – Natalie Merchant
11. Mon Mec a Moi – Patricia Kaas
12. Jersey Girl – Bruce Springsteen
13. Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills & Nash
14. Back at One– Brian McKnight
15. Bring me to Life – Evanescence
16. Can’t Help Falling in Love – Andrea Bocelli
17. One – U2
18. Me & Mrs. Jones – Billy Paul
19. You are so Beautiful – Joe Cocker
20. Beauty and the Beast – Peabo Bryson & Celine Dion
21. Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
22. Unforgettable – Natalie and Nat “King” Cole
23. More than Words – Eric Clapton
24. Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
25. Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra
26. The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News
27. I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
28. Love Story – Taylor Swift
29. Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
30. Love the One You’re With – Crosby, Stills & Nash
31. On Bended Knee – Boys II Men
32. Moon River – Audrey Hepburn
33. Ma Cherie Amore – Stevie Wonder
34. Stop! In the Name of Love –  The Supremes
35. Love is the Drug –  Roxy Music
36. L-O-V-E – Nat “King” Cole
37. Lady in Red – Chris de Burgh

Models: Lauren DiMarco & Tobi Klanner

The Month of Love…

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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© Lauren DiMarco Photography by Slavic

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever. Anonymous

February is my favorite month! I am an incurable romantic and although my expectations for Valentine’s Day have never been fulfilled, I still hold onto my fantasy that one day they will!

Models – Lauren DiMarco & Oleg Galagan

Skipping Stones…

31 Monday Jan 2011

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© Joan Currie

I don’t know if I can do this alone
Oh after all our sweet love is flown
I’ve been a running
I’ve been skipping like a stone
And I don’t know if I
I  can do this all alone.
Amos Lee (Skipping Stone)

I have finally mastered the art of skipping stones. I used to think that the secret lay in the selection of the perfect flat stone (and perhaps the speed the stone is thrown), but I have come to discover that it is the angle of release that matters – the optimal angle that keeps the stone rotating in and out of the water several times before finally sinking below the surface.

It turns out, as well, that the stones do not have to be perfectly flat to be considered good skippers. Combing the beaches and shorelines for the best-shaped stones all these years has been for naught.

It is interesting that a tiny adjustment in technique was all that was required to achieve skipping success, and I wondered if I might apply the same principle to other, more important, areas of my life. It may make all the difference.

Tiny Teardrop…

30 Sunday Jan 2011

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© Joan Currie - Teardrop

A typical teardrop is 4′ wide, 4′ high, and 8′-10′ long. Some are as big as 6-1/2′ wide, 5′ high, and nearly 12′ long. – www.teardrops.net

This Teardrop trailer spotted in Capitola, complete with surfboards, is reminiscent of my favorite Airstream Bambi Travel trailers. This trailer sleeps two and the hatch in the rear can be used for storage or an eating area.