Day By Day

I've been swimming underwater.  Occasionally rising to the surface to look around in puzzlement.  Dreaming strange dreams.  Readjusting.  Walking around with my swim fins on.

But I'm getting home more and more.  Day by day.  There is something unnatural about boarding an airplane and flying to another continent.  You arrive too quickly.  I have traveler's bends.  I imagine arriving by boat or train would be easier on the psyche.  But don't feel too sorry for me.  I enjoy the out of focus feeling - the dream it takes awhile to awaken from.  Especially if it was a good one.

And it was a good one.

I'm adding photos to my travel journal.  I make my selections based, not on content necessarily, but on color and shape.  Sort of like the way I selected the ones for this post.  A mishmash.

White on white.  Bliss.

The patron saint of my travel journal, Jean Paul.  Much more on him in an upcoming post.

On one of rambles in the double digit arrondissments I came across this tiny cemetary surrounded by tall apartment buildings. 

My journal.  It's growing!

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Will be featuring this journal structure in the June class (along with 1 or 2 others) so won't go into details about the construction or process here.

Comments

[Brian Kasstle]

Sign me's up for class pppppplease... I want to see more!!!!

[Tina]

Love the colors and shapes of this post. That moon glow, that hand, and oh the enamel 43! It's all so dreamy!

[robin cox walsh]

Welcome home! And thanks for taking me along. I had a lovely time!

[Renate]

Plane trips do tend to leave part of you behind - the soul needs time to catch up. Keep dreaming...

[Lilja]

I LOVE your journals!!! I dream of being able to do a journal like that...maybe someday :) But they are truly an inspiration to me - and so are your photos!!

[Bonnie]

Just gorgeous! I know what you mean about readjusting...I find myself torn at the moment, my heart is back in Paris and my head filled with birdsong, translucent light and a spring in my step, but the other half of me is home again...it feels odd! I miss it. Love your journal! I posted day one about my Paris trip on my blog if you want to have a look. I love the photos you took!

[Sharon Bennett]

Traveling at 600 mph or whatever it is will get you feeling a little wonky! Can't wait for the new class. Thanx for sharing your beautiful journal, my friend.

[Janey Jennings]

Can't wait for new class info! Have been along on your trip all the way, thank-you for sharing with us.
Janey

[pam]

I've been spotting the most wonderful Victorian photo albums at our flea market. Two of them are now in my craft stash just waiting for that class!

[susan w]

Sights like these are everywhere. You are the eyes that see them. You have shared the tiny views (smaller than vignettes - aha! French!) from your rambles in Turkey, Mérida, Lisbon, other, other, other, and all around Los Angeles. It really is not so much the loveliness of the place but of the eyes seeing that place. I am always grateful when you invite us to focus along with you.

[Michele Unger]

Yummy photos! I love your eye for detail.

[Nancy Lynn]

Oh my Gosh, I love all your pictures. I am thinking seriously about going to Paris. I've wanted to for years and finally have someone who will go with me and she has lived there. So hope I get to go.

Please please please announce your new class soon before I have a heart attack. Your classes are awesome and I have vintage journals waiting just for this class. Open Open Open!!!!!

[Mary]

Hi Mary Ann...I am enjoying your Paris photos and the journal sooooo much! Thanks for sharing! The new class sounds intriguing!

[Kelley]

YEAH, yeah, YEAH! What a great Tuesday morning blog read! I am so excited to finally see "The Journal" and more Paris pictures. Thank you!
and I hope your 'fog' lifts soon...of course, only if you want it to. :)

have a happy week.

[Sharon]

Bonjour Mary Ann. Another charming dispatch. And this really sings with the colors of Paris & spring. And also something more. Something that is ethereal beyond it's solidity. Whatever that "out of focus feeling" is, that "dream it takes a while to awaken from", it is working for you!

[Debbie G]

Love the growing journal! Each posting makes my day. Thanks!

[Jannie Mc]

So excited to see the growing journal - now I'm planning my summer holiday around the creation of something similar!

[Leslie J. Moran]

I'm so very excited to think of yet another tutorial on your fabulous journals! It truly is difficult returning to this side of the pond. Hopefully you can take your time and still stay in the vapors of "Paree" a bit longer. Nicest of fogs really :)

[kas]

Oh so lovely!

[Heidi]

I love those coming-home-from-faraway-places hazy kind of dreams. I love your detail photos. I love that journal.

Oh why oh why can't june arrive sooner so this class can begin?!?

[Barbara in Massachusetts]

Thanks for sharing those lovely photos of Paris and your travel journal. After your post before you left for Paris, I haunted ebay looking for a Victorian photo album. I got one and it's pretty beat up and grimy. It will be great fun to take it apart and create something special with. It even came with a few old photos! I CANNOT WAIT until you start that class.

[nicole austin]

so pretty! so fun. i can't wait to hear about your next class. count me in! :)

[Saucy Chick Sherry]

Keep dreaming and wandering with your swim fins on. Your journal is magical and holds intrigue beyond imagine. Traveling with you is Priceless!

[Linda]

Greetings Moss Cottage, Ahh Paris waking up is not the same can not go to the computer and hit the button to favortes and wait for what were doing today Dreams of setting in the sun and taking life in, the sights, hot choc peace everyday:) But I thank you so for taking me with you and giving the time to do this your book is wonderful can not wait for class. The merry go round horses is the picture that will be with me in my Paris dreams it symbles alot.
XO,
Linda