Lift-off…

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John Denver, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Photography, The Macarons Project, Travel

© Joan Currie

Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again…
Cover of John Denver’s song Leaving on a Jet Plane
 The Macarons Project

Putting aside my flight of fantasy for the real thing…

Resolutions interrupted…

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Eric Zorn, New Year's Resolutions, Promises, Sintra

© Joan Currie

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. – Eric Zorn

For once, I am hoping to keep the promises I made to myself…

Nesting…

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Amelia Earhart, Fashion, Home, Photography

Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh © Joan Currie

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart

Grateful for a weekend in home port…

Leaving town blue..

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Blue bridge in Dublin, Dublin, Photography, Wallace Stegner, Writing

© Joan Currie – Blue bridge in Dublin, Ireland

Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.  Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

Trying to make every parting a beautiful memory…

© Joan Currie – Morning blues – I will miss the lattes and banana bread!

© Joan Currie – My favorite antique store…

Warm embrace…

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Dublin, Ireland, Oscar Wilde, Photography

© Joan Currie – Fusilier’s Arch, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde

I was utterly and pleasantly seduced by all that was Dublin these last two weeks.

Sum of its parts…

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Bananarama, Cruel Summer, Einstein, Harlem, Lauren DiMarco, NYC, Photography, Travel

© Lauren DiMarco – Harlem

The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I’m on my own
It’s too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go.
lyrics from Cruel Summer by Bananarama 

Sometimes the details create the bigger picture.

(Note: Einstein had a different idea about the sum of its parts.)

Time to hit the road…

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Adventure, Dr. Seuss, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Oh the Places You'll Go!, Photography

© Lauren DiMarco

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss

Stepping out after months of planning!

Diddy domination…

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Marrakech, New York City, Photography, Sean Diddy Combs, Times Square, Travel

© Joan Currie – Times Square, NYC

You only live once!!! Get busy!
Sean “Diddy” Combs 

For some reason, I kept expecting to see your face in the crowd.

© Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

Off Duty…

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beautiful, British Columbia, Michael Kimmelman, Photography, postaweek 2011, Vancouver

© Joan Currie

…we progress from being voyeurs, which we always are when we look at other people’s pictures, to excavators, combining our memories for what we may recognize from our own family albums, from our own lives. We look for us. – Michael Kimmelman

This lifeguard chair on Vancouver’s North Shore evokes very strong memories of my summers as a pool lifeguard.

Inukshuk…

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beautiful, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, Inukshuk, Loren Eiseley, Photography, postaweek 2011, The Seawall, West Vancouver

© Joan Currie

Sometimes the rare, the beautiful, can only emerge or survive in isolation. In a similar manner, some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. – Loren Eiseley from The Night Country

When I shifted my focus from the water to the shore, I beheld many acts of creation.