#255: Illuminated
‘It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer
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#254: Deckchair
‘All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?’ – Frances Mayes, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
#253: Paralympics 2012
‘If the Paralympics have accomplished anything it is confronting people with the abilities that disabled people have.’ – Luke White, Paralympics wheelchair rugby star
#252: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
‘Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.’ – Pablo Picasso
#251: Knead
‘All sorrows are less with bread.’ – Miguel de Cervantes
#250: Rodin
‘O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?’ – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
#249: Harebell
‘Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee?’ – Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
#248: The Great Fire of London (Re-enactment)
‘It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.’ – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#247: Luggage
‘Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
#246: Richmond
‘One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched.’ – Bernard DeVoto