neighbors

On a walk

in Paris I saw a shop keeper exit her establishment to greet a street cleaner with two kisses. He wore orange, he swept the ground with a straw broom. They were happy to greet each other. 

rome covered in snow is rare

 Today I saw people throwing snowballs, this includes adults, other people were taking photos of the snow, and one woman used a rolled up yoga mat to clear the windshield of her car.

V, i think i'll have melted chocolate for breakfast

When I got to Versailles all of the statues in the gardens were covered by plastic, the fountains were off, bushes were browning.  I commented to my friend that these things were done especially for me.

With that said, nope I wasn't bothered. How can I be bothered by such things? Someone once told me that grey is grey, when you decide to see it as grey.. I'll have this memory to compare it to the next.

photography is art.

The Henri Cartier-Bresson 'immagini e parole' exhibition in Rome. If I could spend a morning with three of photos from this exhibition they would be:  

A photo shot in Mexico in 1954 of an unkept boy entering a gate of a somewhat unkept home with a framed portrait of a well dressed woman who could pass for his mother, tucked underneath his left arm.

The 1947 downtown photo of New York. In it there is a cat and a man, they both seem to be out of luck,  or they could just be looking for a quiet place to sit.

A photo taken in Paris in 1938 of a young man (30s) kissing the hand of a Cardinal.