Whew–I don’t know about you, but 2013 seems to be starting crazy busy! With very good things…but BUSY! So for Saturday Snapshot today, I thought perhaps a few peaceful pictures from one of my favorite places.
You were already guessing Kensington Gardens, right? 🙂
The inscription reads: “Pam Weisweiller was here – do sit and enjoy life”
So this weekend, I hope you take some time to just sit and enjoy life!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! I thought I’d share a few photos from the weekend…
My mom and I have a Christmas tradition of baking cookies together. We’ve done it every year for over twenty years. This Christmas, we made peanut butter cookies and lemon bars. Delicious!
And surely nothing says Christmas like a happy cat by a fire. This is Lucky’s favorite spot in the winter. She’ll lay there happily for hours when there’s a fire–and lay there pointedly, when there isn’t!
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It’s raining all this weekend. I thought about sharing rain pictures, but found out that it’s not so easy to photograph rain. But rain makes me want to curl up somewhere cozy and drink tea, so I thought I’d share tea pictures–particularly fun tea pictures, from my London trip.
This is the Orangerie in Kensington Gardens. If you’re ever there, it’s off the Broad Walk near Kensington Palace. They’re known for their excellent afternoon teas–two different friends who had lived in London recommended them to me!
This was my experience of tea–not actually the fancy version, which they serve on a pretty tiered tray and has cakes and sandwiches and enormous amounts of food. But I wasn’t that hungry and they kindly let me just have very tasty tea and scones, even though the option wasn’t on the menu.
This is the view from the Orangerie’s patio. Somewhere beyond that path is Kensington Palace.
I also had breakfast at the Orangerie another day–the eggs tasted better than they look in the picture! That day I ate inside, and got this picture…
It’s a beautiful place–and not as busy Sunday mornings as it is for afternoon tea. If you’re in Kensington Gardens (where you MUST go if you have any interest in Peter Pan), then the Orangerie is an excellent place for a very charming breakfast or tea!
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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I took a walk around my neighborhood on Thanksgiving, to enjoy the fall colors. I tried getting pictures a few weeks ago, but now the trees have finally changed in earnest. Here are a few of the most colorful!
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I still have lots of travel photos I haven’t shared yet. Thought I’d get away from the fall colors this week and share some trip photos instead…and for some reason I’m in the mood for artwork. Let’s tour the Louvre.
The Louvre is known for having a few very famous pieces of art. Of the famous ones, Winged Victory was my favorite. I took a lot of shots, but I like this one best–looking as though she’s about to take flight.
Pardon the slight fuzziness of the Venus de Milo–only shot I could get without hordes of people in the frame!
The Louvre is a complete labyrinth (I got SO lost) but they do have helpful signs pointing you to the main attractions. I guess they know what people are looking for!
And sure enough…here’s where everyone is! That’s the Mona Lisa way off across the crowd. To be honest, as a painting it’s never really spoken to me. But I was very entertained by the masses clustered around. I wish I could have captured the forest of arms holding up camera phones–it looked like a rock concert!
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Tales of the Marvelous 