under a blanket of snow

this christmas creche cow turns her rump on 2012

and looks toward a bright 2013.

wishing you all a safe and satisfying new year

once the town's high school

now the municipal center.

i've spent many hours on the top floor of this building,

working under the sloping attic ceilings.

if only every home could be graced

with the bright notes of a flute

and the generous spirit of the flautist.

thank you, dear shelley, for that joyful concert

hello snow

we've been waiting for you.

it's good to be back.

thank you all for your kind wishes.

happy holiday

hope you are all touched by magic

flying the coop again

back in time for thanksgiving

(don't tell the turkeys)

have a great weekend everyone

just when vermont lays its sleepy head down for a rest

upstarts of purple

 make it sit back up in bed 

on a still november afternoon

light filters through the blue-veined air

bridgework in brattleboro

been over a year since irene

and we're still picking up the pieces.

but we're definitely making progress.

our thoughts go to all of those in the early stages of recovering from sandy.

taken this summer at the toronto busker's festival

just for today let's imagine this fiddler

is playing happy birthday

to my dear friend leda.

happy birthday, cutie!

grand opening of the brattleboro food coop's new building

proof

that life truly is

a circle

my spirit swings from birch tree to birch tree

even in grim november.

 vermont this time of year is a threadbare blanket
of delicate beauty.

a quartet of color at the brattleboro retreat

imagine the conversations.

gray new england skies

it's t'aint season in the northeast

t'aint autumn, t'aint winter.

dreary skies, though, don't dampen the joy of being home,

even if i do have to depart again next week.

home and gone again

boarding another plane tomorrow.

back in about ten days.

how small we are, how big the world.

take care, all.

back in brattleboro

with its misty autumn mornings

a fond farewell to bruges

city of mystery, history, and dreams

the windmills of bruges

stout little soldiers ever watchful on the berm

bruges at night

a glimpse of the illuminated clock tower from our hotel room window

displayed in the chocolate museum of bruges

charming tins adorned with portraits of the royal family

from behind the clock's face in bruges,

we gazed out over the wind and rain soaked landscape

swans ornament the canals in bruges

white pillows of grace afloat in a bed of rippled glass

weary, wet, and footsore visitors to bruges

may still delight in the city

under the canopy of a horse-drawn carriage

in bruges

around every corner

such stunning surprises

await the intrepid walker

such lovely lace

can be found in bruges

amazing bruges

please indulge me over the coming week in a series of images 

taken in the timeless city of bruges

paris: the grand finale...

 delectable moments

 arching moments

 moving moments 

 iconic moments

 profound moments

 pyramidal moments

 matrimonial moments

 alley cat moments

 stone-tender moments

 medieval moments

 private garden moments

 long, sweeping moments

 canal lock moments

pere lachaise moments

au revoir, chere paris

wild life on the streets of paris

 in a dress shop on rue d'aboukir

 in the shadow of the louvre

 on pet store row, across from the pont neuf

 outside a montmartre cafe

on boulevard saint-martin

the street entertainers of paris

 notre dame

place de furstenberg

sacre coeur

sacre coeur

montmartre