By The Canon Viewfinder: 2019

Happy New Year!

Write it on your heart that every day the best day
in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magical Moment

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing. Anthony Hopkins

Views of Lucerne Switzerland

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Paul Klee

Merry Christmas

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. Pope Francis

OH! OH! OH!

Of course there is a Santa Claus. It's just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That's why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.

TRUMAN CAPOTE, One Christmas

Golden Dusk

Boston, MA.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. Jean-Paul Sartre

Fila

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. Victoria Beckham

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead

Style

Style is a way to say who you are without
having to speak. Rachel Zoe

Ascending

Boston MA.

I call Boston home because it's where I started coming into my own. Sasha Banks

The Clock

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock. Dick Dale

Naturally Wild

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”

John Harrigan

The Library

Woodstock, VT.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Carl T. Rowan

Wines

I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Golden

I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle. Engelbert Humperdinck

Pork Roast

Sometimes I look up a recipe for chicken and tomatoes and end up cooking pork. The inspiration gets lost in translation. Alex Guarnaschelli

New&Only

Makeup can help you capture a moment. Carine Roitfeld

Tuna Plate

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. Douglas Adams

Garden by the Sea

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan

Saucisson

I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!' Olivia De Havilland

Portal

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
James Joyce

Texture

“The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.”
Paul Scott

Yellow Tones III

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Albert Schweitzer

Mediterranean Style Sirloin

I grew up on a pretty Mediterranean diet, so that's what I try to stick to. Molly Qerim

Charming

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Chicken&Peas

I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule. Sasha Cohen