Even my soul is wet

It’s a new dawn! it’s a new day! it’s a new blog! … well not entirely, Michael Bublé, but I AM feeling fine and the style it is a-changing. And you might notice a new title in the next few days. It is time. I have published my first book, Russians Love Their Children Too in France and am now well entrenched in the second which needs some of my stories to feed it and so the blog needs a different emphasis. Et voila! it will be a little more life-stylee … Eat Pray Love meets Gertude Stein on the set of ‘Allo ‘Allo if you will. There will be food to share, some house renovating (our little project in the South) and much house searching for that elusive maison principale, crucial questions like ‘what should I wear to le marché on Thursday’ and ‘what do I do when cornered by the local buveur (boozer) on Sunday morning whilst taking coffee, tout seul‘ will be asked and possibly answered, all against a backdrop of an English siren dropped into a sparcely populated area of a foreign land whilst her love labours for a deaf super-power. And of course photos with lyrical or poetic associations – and stories too … old habits die hard – now there’s a thought … Maria von Trapp meets Bruce Willis – by George, I think she’s got it!
The picture, chosen for the weekly photo challenge from The Daily Press, this week titled Early Bird, was taken by that very same husband in Chile at Los Salar just south of St Pedro de Atacama. He has Two Brains and built an observatory on the mountain some years ago because he knew it could be done. He also handles a camera quite well
PS: The quote, appropriately, is Pablo Neruda, ‘Sometimes I get up at dawn and even my soul is wet’ in ‘Here I Love You’ which forms part of his exquisite first collection Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair
Looking forward to your new blog. This photo is soft and pretty for an early morning shoot.
Thank you @oh the places we see …. I appreciate you taking the time to comment and hope the new blog will please you 🙂
love your text, your hubby’s pix and Pablo Neruda, of course… <3 one of our CNES friends was their responsible for ALMA for about 5 years… small world again: 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqC2Dj7dCzg
bonus… <3 🙂 Jean Ferrat – Complainte de Pablo Neruda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQAkJNxQEM
Thank you! You are like my own personal mine for precious gems! I will be playing this often 🙂 x
It is SUCH a small world! Of course Two Brains does a lot of work with Alma – his was a little observatoire which pre-dated them … he is about to start decommissioning his which is quite sad – the story of building it is brilliant! I will visit with him this year but it is always a question of weather up there 😉 And I thought of you when I chose the Neruda, actually 🙂 x
on dit que les grands et beaux esprits se rencontrent… 🙂
Indeed … I believe they do 🙂
PS: Have just watched the clip … brilliant!
Wow, it’s all happening for you right now!
Yes LETS have more house reno pix, I am obsessed with this subject ( as if you couldn’t tell)
It’s going to be a question of picking your brains, ma’am! The first piece about the house will go up sometime this week ….. and the pictures – oh boy … you will sympathise!!
Good luck with the new blog and looking forward to continuing to follow it…(Suzanne)
Thank you Suzanne …. I hope it will give a little pleasure 🙂
Good luck with the book. I shall look forward to your future blog posts. And that is a perfectly gorgeous photo. 🙂
Thank you Susie! I’m watching the progress of your new one intently on FaceBook. And, yes it is … I can say that, because I didn’t take it! 🙂
Lovely!
janet
Congratulations on the book and looking forward to the new blog. Thanks for your lovely comments always. Not keeping up well with other blogs at the moment but will catch up when we are home. Bryce Canyon tomorrow – come and join us 🙂
As always a beautiful picture! And congrats on the book 😀
Thank you! I can’t take credit for the picture but I can take a bit for the book 😉
You wrote a book?! Well done, you! Looking forward to reading the new blog – sounds like my sort of thing. Best of luck with both!
Thank you, June … This first one is quite slim! I hope you will enjoy the new blog … Yours is one of my favorites, as you might have worked out !