#103: Ice cream van
‘It was the colour of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.’ – Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Tag: Landscape
#101: Welcome to my beautiful garden
‘A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.’ – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Passed this garden when out for a walk in North London and thought that it was pretty fantastic… …so I took two photos of it!
#94: Sheep
‘Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true! Baa-ram-ewe!’ – Dick King-Smith, The Sheep-Pig It’s a bit of a ridiculous picture today of my mother’s Easter decorations…
#87: Easter dawn
‘Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.’ – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Every Easter, the church on the hill above my parents’ house has an… Continue reading #87: Easter dawn
#85: The Gin House
‘Civilisation begins with distillation’ – William Faulkner
#84: Apron
‘Puns are the highest form of literature.’ – Alfred Hitchcock A James Bond related baking pun? My parents do know me well…
#83: Sewing machine
‘I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.’ – Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
#80: Train picnic
‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.’ – Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan
#64: Ducks
‘Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.’ – Michael Caine
#63: Mirror
‘What does a mirror look at?’ – Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune