Visible at the Opera . . .

Visible, indeed. I debated showing you a photo of the dress’ back seam, unstitched from mid-shoulder-blades to the waist. Because the dress fits relatively loosely through that section, the seam is never drawn tautly open,…

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Running Priorities

 That was a goofy week! Thank goodness I had stored up a weekend of puttering, because once the week got going I never managed to get home before 9 p.m. Paul was away, so I…

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Paris vs. West Coast Island*

Scrolling through my photos to find the delicious shoes for Wednesday’s post, I was momentarily arrested by this shot — brought back to the Paris trottoir where I’d looked up to recognize the more urban, and…

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Shoes Pretty Enough to Eat . . .

When I read this post on Jamie Cat Callan’s fabulous blog, I immediately thought of this photo I took of a delightful vitrine in Bordeaux last May. Jamie goes back and forth between candy-coloured shoes in…

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A Historical Survey . . .

A hasty grouping of history novels so that I could move some books back onto the shelves: The best of the bunch, Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies. Another very satisfying historical novel is Eva…

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