hello again.

Standard apologies for not blogging for 11 months!  Excuse?  New career, riding, art, photography....But I have brushed myself off and am ready to get back to it.


Nothing like last minute shopping for gorgeous things… cruising the Internet for sexy/vintage and leather gloves for this weekend. May or may not happen quickly, but one does hope. Living above the 49th parallel provides a huge barrier to getting items delivered in a matter of days from anywhere – even eastern Canada. So I may have to make due for now. Or find something in Seattle – which may just work.


Random thoughts today while working / posting photos and bantering back and forth – and a promise to myself to keep blogging…



Alchemy – lots and lots of it.

Amuse Bouche

Slippery ;)

Coup d'état – say no more.

Crème fraiche- on anything.

Bare feet on hardwood floors

Olives (yes, still adore)

First sip of a fresh espresso

Brioche

The sting of minty lip balm

French red wine - I will never say "non".

Starched pure white cuffs

Men who have pocket watches and wear scarves (Les grand sigh!)

Biting into Crisp grapes

Fresh new leather gloves.


I think I found them..  Thoughts?

What the EFF??

(Sat In draft from from Mods Vs. Rockers 2011 - posted today. )


Had an AMAZING 24 hours in Seattle this past weekend. Perhaps it was the over abundant
invitations on the Friday and the amazing art opening and late night visits I felt compelled to attend,  or it could have been the late night espresso and the super early morning, but from the moment I arrived fresh off the 1-5 and checked into my supercleanmodern hotel in the Emerald City It was like I had landed from another planet.
Or as a friend of mine said "Don't mind her, she is jet lagged, just got off a flight from Zurich". And they were so right!

Laundry List

• Could not decide what to wear
• Had issue with starting the Lambretta
• Lambretta formulated a major crush on somebody else and would ONLY respond to them
• nearly got run over - TWICE by the same person
• got caught up in looking off into space and not responding when spoken to (yep, space case!)
• amazing dinner
• Wine, lots of delicious red wine (and beer, and more wine)
• cut hand
• broken mirrors / heavy pounding heart.
• hot hot sun
• Riding pants and tall leather boots
• Primates!  Screaming, guitar playing, music loving primates!
• HUGE purple bruises on left shin an hands (??)

But you know what?  I had SO MUCH FUN!
Seriously!  FUN!  What was supposed to be a crap day, turned out to be completely delicious!
Score Bonus points for a surprise brunch invite from a friend I had not seen in about a year.  It was good!  Really good.
Leaving was as usual not the best.  I have a hard time saying good by to the city I so want to move to and the people I would love to see more often.  But perhaps the fact that I don't see them as often keeps it fresh and interesting. Right?  
Yeah.  Let's do this again soon Seattle, you are amazing!  Oh yes, and I still have a crush on you.