Art and/of Perfume

Caesar Boetius van Everdingen’s Girl in a Wide Hat (oil on canvas, c. 1645-1650) symbolizes summer as convincingly as does the painting of lady Winter by the same artist, hung on an adjoining wall in…

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Island Paddling

 Whoops! Someone, quick, tell Kristin to cover her eyes . . . . She had a recent misadventure of the paddling sort, and the trauma is too recent for her to see this post. The…

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More Parisian Chic, West-Coast Style . . .

Might not meet Suri’s standards, but I quite like how Nola’s styled her marinière-inspired dress with red-white dotted leggings and a long-limbed monkey. And when I told her I loved her dress and asked her…

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Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

I loved Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress which I found on the remaindered table at Munro’s Books in Victoria where I also picked up Per Peterson’s Out Stealing Horses last winter. It often strikes…

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Mother Nature and the Bride

A few wedding details as I build up to the big bride dress reveal . . .  Here’s a little sculpture the groom-to-be put together for the rehearsal on the eve of the wedding. That…

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