We were performing for the first time since Maya was born at Parizade on Saturday night.
Cecil and Iryna started the night with a milonga, then John and I followed with Osvaldo Pugliese. The 4 of us finished on Francisco Canaro.
It was so good to see how good my friend look after giving birth a month ago.
Non-tango friends Jeff and Stacey came to have dessert, coffee and watch us dance.
Jeff had my camera and took photos of us dancing. Thank you Jeff!
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As Iryna’s mother will soon go back to Belarus, we want her to experience as much different food as she can!
This week one of my friend posted on her facebook account “Kill the wabbit”. Good french person that I am I assumed she was talking about food!
After a long explanation, I realized that she was talking about “Warner Brothers”.
Well it made me want to eat rabbit! Here in Durham, it gets difficult to found it fresh. So I went to Cliff Meat Market in Chapel hill and bought not only rabbit, but also frogs legs.
I made my mother “Lapin aux pruneaux” and I made the frog legs with garlic butter. The cuisses de grenouille were so tender, and the rabbit delicious!
Of course the meal went on for hours, and a good “nespresso” coffee was at the end of the meal!
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Since my best friend’s mom is here from Belarus, we have been having sundays late lunch, early diner together at our house.
Iryna comes with her husband, mother and daughter, and we have great food and great talks.
It remind me of home in France when my family would get together on Sundays. Nothing can compare to the strong bond you form sharing over food and wine.
Sometimes it is not just about the food, it is about the friendship.
Today I was watching my kids playing with Cecil, and as I was feeding Maya, I realized that we are more than friends, we have become a family over years. Sharing life up and downs, sharing tears and laughter , and sharing meal and wine is really what makes strong bond in family.
Iryna and Cecil, I do not think you will ever know how much I love you!
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This morning, I found a dollar coin on the street. Originally I thought it was a quarter, then I realized it was too big to be a quarter!
Of course, I think as women, we internalize way too much every single details and since the dollar coin was from 1972, my birth year, I decided this was fate!
I will carry this coin with me everywhere I go. I have decided it will protect me when I travel and be my “lucky charm”.
I love the imperfections of the edges, it looks so worn and yet still so beautiful!
One of my photos was featured at the Carrack gallery on Parrish Street in Durham. It was a juried exhibit and some of my favorite friends photographers also had photos there.
Here are few photos of the pre-exhibit and all the artists putting the photos up before the exhibit. I was not able to be there for the actual event on that night, but I had a great time documenting the “before the event”.
It was a privilege to be feature with such great people!
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I went to walked around downtown Durham yesterday with 2 of my photographer friends. So many interesting buildings, places, restaurants, churches.
I saw a tiny park with a bench behind a church where I could imagine myself hiding from the world!
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Carmina Burana translate to “Songs from Beuern” and is a collections of 254 poems written mostly in the 11th and 12th century in a melange of old French, Latin and German.
In 1803, the manuscript of texts was found in Bavaria in a Benedictine monastery.
In 1936, composer Carl Orff set some of the poems to music.
It is one of my favorite classical piece and I have been listening to it a lot lately.
As a music lover, I have been studying the lyrics lately. I actually have been learning the lyrics. So much power into singing into a foreign language.
The lyrics are a beautiful melange of love songs, morals songs, drinking songs and spiritual songs.
I have had the privilege to go and watch the Symphony perform it in Raleigh!
I wish I would of known they would not check for lenses in bag…I would brought a different lens!
It was a fantastic concert, and having looked at the translation in English and French made me love it even more!
I am working on so many different projects right now. It keeps my mind occupied!
I wanted to do something very different, challenge myself, my style and show potential clients that I am more than capable to do something very different than photojournalism, photo-documentary, or portraits.
This project I called it “undress”.
I worked with both a large format camera, and a regular digital camera. These photos are the ones made with my regular digital camera.
I spent so many hours on the studio yesterday for this still life! It was both challenging and rewarding at the same time!
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I love this weather! Not too hot yet! It is still spring and the weather is acting like it!
We have a membership all year long to five oaks and we get to enjoy the pool in the summer and the workout/fitness room all year long!
I took my 2 girls this afternoon to the pool as I know this is one of the last weekend where the pool is not too crowded and the weather is not too hot.
We had such a great time!
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After an intense work-out at the Gym last night, I came home just in time to say goodnight to my children.
Chloe, the youngest, was pretending to be already asleep. I looked at her, and she looked like a pink angel:
The bed is pink, the walls are pink, her PJ’s were pink…
I could not help to found peace and solstice in her cute smile, waiting for me to kiss her and to tell her how much I love her.
It was a magical moment that I needed at this exact time. Of course, I ran to get my camera and she continue to play the I am asleep game!
Nothing can ever replace the smile of a child waiting for this simple kiss goodnight.
After that I went to my computer with my favorite sea-salt dark chocolate bar! It is made locally in Raleigh. They grind their own cocoa nibs and use North Carolina Sea salt!
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