Purple Clusters

Purple was my favourite colour for a very long time.  Now I would say that it's probbly more of a burgundy red, but the shade has a special place in my heart.  So, when I see unusual looking flowers like this in a splendid gradient of purple and pink, I have to take some photographs of them.  This was the best of the lot, and my final photograph from New Canaan.

New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

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Tales from the Bard

I have this awesome collection of a bunch of Shakespeare's plays in a 1950's Pelican Shakespeare edition that I received from my Grammy when my grandparents were moving two years ago.  When I moved to Brooklyn, they came along with me, and I use them all the time for reference, some fun reading, or when I want to find a new monologue.  Not that I don't have a Complete Works of William Shakespeare, I do, but lugging around that beast of a volume is ridiculous if I own the individual copy of the play.  So, these get lots of love.  And they are rather pretty too!  I love the cover art so much.

Sneakers

When she came to visit, my friend Bianca was wearing these excellent sneakers.  I am not a big sneaker person, and by that, I mean that if you catch me wearing sneakers anywhere other than the gym, you have seen a rare sight.  However, I love them on other people, and she has that flair to pull off ones with lots of bright colours, like these.  We were on one of the balconies at South Street Seaport, she was sitting on a chair and I was sitting on the ground, and I couldn't help but take this shot.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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Model: Bianca Di Maio

Northcote House

This was just one of the many houses in the Hampstead area near the Heath.  Many of them seemed to have names, but this one had a charming name and a really cool sign.  So, it got a photograph on my blog.  Hooray!

Hampstead, London, England, UK

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Quaint and English

Another beautiful and quaint front yard in Hampstead.  My favourite part is the flowers over the door.  A lot of buildings in the East Village in New York City seem to do this too, and I think it makes a place look so much like a home, rather than just another city building.  

Hampstead, London, England, UK

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Pastels

This delightful floral tree is outside of some kind of office building in Bay Ridge.  The mix of white and purple flowers on one tree floored me. I was walking with Danny to the house of a friend of ours, and I actually made him stop in the middle of the sidewalk so that I could take this photograph.  Now, I do this all of the time, so he is pretty used to it.  He's basically a saint.  Not only does he put up with it, he thinks it's cute!  However, this time, we were running late.  Like we were already fifteen minutes late and had another ten minutes to walk.  It worked out though.  Our friend went to buy ingredients to make us omelettes, so we actually beat him to his house.  

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

In Bruges

Flower Display on a Canal 

Bruges, Belgium

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Enchantment

A house on the shore of Lake Geneva

Saint Prex, Switzerland

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