One of my all time favourite books is: Romancing The Ordinary by Sarah Ban Breathnach. It is a month by month celebration of simple splendour, such as the tiny drops of dew on this head of cow parsley. I recently read the chapter The Listening Walk, in which the...
I recently went to an exhibition at the Musée de Luxembourg, which is in the gardens of the same name. Over the years I’ve spent quite a lot of time in the Jardins de Luxembourg, first as a student when I was getting a postgrad qualification and many years later, as a...
Happy New Year and Bonne Année, mes amis. January, Janvier, comes from the Latin Janaurius, the Roman god Janus, who was the God of doors, but also appropriately for this time of year, God of beginnings and endings. I’ve never been an enthusiastic resolution...
I have the good fortune to live near two pick your own farms that grow vegetables, fruit and more importantly for me… flowers. The Ferme de Gally opened in April and the first flowers to bloom are the tulips. I love tulips, their varied and colourful flowers...
These photos were taken with my Nikon D5200 on three consecutive mornings from Feb 6th to 8th, between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., in the fields around my village, in the greater Paris area or Ile De France. I document my morning walk everyday on my Instagram account. I...
Last week, the first week in February, it snowed heavily here in the Paris area, all of 19 cm, approximately 7.5 inches ! Now if I lived in the city, I would have been out dawn to dusk capturing all that lovely architecture and Frenchness with a trimming of snow....
