Another installment from my April 2011 travelogue.
In which we navigate a chemist shop, weigh some fruit, climb a hill, and I misplace an entire cathedral.
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Travelogue Pt 04 – Paris
Posted in Travel, tagged montmartre, notre dame, paris, photo, photography, rue monge, sacre coeur, saint eustache, Travel, travelogue on 22 Jun 2013| Leave a Comment »
Travelogue Pt 03 – Paris
Posted in Travel, tagged eiffel tower, Jardins de Luxembourg, jim morrison, pantheon, paris, paris cemetery, paris church, Paris Metro, Pere lachaise, photo, photography, Place de Contrescarpe, saint sulpice, Travel, travelogue on 21 Jun 2013| Leave a Comment »
In which we see dead people, take several bus rides, and give Dan Brown a nod.
03: A long day in Paris
Travelogue Pts 01-02 – Paris
Posted in Travel, tagged CDG, charles de gaulle airport, notre dame, paris, photo, photography, Travel, travelogue on 20 Jun 2013| Leave a Comment »
While I’m taking my own vacation, I’m going to share this series, a compilation of “letters home” from the three-week trip my wife and I took to Paris and England in April 2011. They were written on the road, on a teensy little netbook, usually at the end of the day (or every other day, if our schedule was hectic.) I have not edited them, except to fix the odd grammatical or spelling error. Though I sent these emails to a small circle of friends and family, my primary reason in writing these was to document our trip in the fresh, unvarnished detail that only comes when one is exhausted, filled with the sights and sounds of the day.
01: Nous sommes arrive
Express Delivery
Posted in Gardening, Seattle, tagged gardening, nature photography, photography, rain, Seattle, seattle weather on 13 Mar 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Pineapple Express.
That’s what we call it, and yesterday, I smelled it coming.
6AM. Dark. Walking between the streetlight pools, heading to the bus stop, the wind picked up. I lifted my head, facing the wind, facing the southwest, and I felt it on my face, felt it warm and moist like a facecloth at the barber shop. I could smell the greenery in it, the lush growth of Hawaii and the tropical waters between. This wind had seen land before, jetting from Oahu to Seattle, bringing us rain and rain and rain.
It blew all day, and today the rain is here. Four to seven inches in the elevations, bringing floodwaters to the rivers, rain to my garden, and warmth to my budding groves.
The Pineapple Express has arrived.
k
Spring is Near
Posted in Seattle, tagged crocus, Garden, gardening, geese, photography, Seattle, spring on 04 Mar 2013| Leave a Comment »
First Crocus of Spring
It’s coming. Spring is coming. The geese were right, and spring is coming early after a mild maritime winter. I’m not complaining…I love spring.
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani 