French Friday: Le Macaron - Brookfield

« Manger un macaron c’est un petit excès sans le sentiment de commettre un pêché de gourmandise. » — Chantal Thomass

I know it’s not polite to play with your food, but I just can’t resist the temptation to arrange them and photograph them. They are a treat for the eyes as well as the palate.

Le Macaron at The Corners of Brookfield just opened last week. I’ve been staying pretty close to home, but it seemed worth it to don my mask and set out in search of these French beauties.

They have French pastries too. That Napoleon is calling my name!

Capture 52 - Week 25: Sunrise • Sunset

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it

American photographer Catherine Opie once said, "The biggest cliché in photography is sunrise and sunset." And yet, sometimes, we just can't resist. #Capture52 #capture52week25 #sunrise

French Friday: Les Pivoines

« La pivoine est-elle moins sublime du fait qu'elle va faner ? » — Amélie Nothomb, Métaphysique des tubes [Moi, je dis bien-sûr que non!]

It’s peony season! All over Paris, markets and flower shops, as well as my Instagram feed, feature a perfusion of pivones, perhaps the “Frenchest”of flowers. Fortunately, I only have to walk through my own garden or drive through town to enjoy these fragrant beauties.

Capture 52 - Week 24: Bokeh

“The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Week 24 - Bokeh: Use a shallow DOF and throw your background out of focus. #Capture52 #capture52week24 #bokeh #forgetmenots

June • Color of the Month

“White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

May 2020 in Pictures

“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . ” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea