…how gorgeous are these photos that reader Benedicte took the other day in her home town of Bergen in Norway? Be still my beating heart.

Benedicte dear, you make me want to jump on a ferry to your beautiful land right now.

All this snow reminds me of my childhood winters growing up in Quebec. I used to taboggan down the backyard rock garden, skate on my local lac, cross country ski in my local park and make a snowman everyday. Walking to the bus stop to go to school was not the best part of the day. But it was a hardship worth enduring.

Is it snowing anywhere else that I should know about?

image source from here and here.

…or Madrid. Can you tell I’m a little envious about everyone else’s snow? Well, I suppose I can find contentment with the fact the birds in my canal can walk on water…

PS Vic even got a snow day off work. Come on Amsterdam, don’t let me down.

This postcard is over a hundred years old. It’s from postaltrice’s very aweseome vintage postcard collection. I would have liked to have been in Paris last weekend when it was snowing, it would have been so much fun to walk the snowy streets with camera in hand…

…image source here, here and here.

…by the work of photographer/artist Kate Breakey. Jenifer mentioned her in a recent post and since then I have not been able to get her photographs out of my mind. I now pass my inspiration-addiction to you. Have a look at her work here, and read about how she creates her pieces here. You can buy her book Small Deaths, here.

PS Right now I am loving listening to the whisperings: solo piano radio through itunes while I work. It is perfectly described as “piano music to quiet your world”. Perhaps you might like it too.

This is the work of Graphic Art student Emma, who has just started her very own blog. She is a little shy to show her work on her new e-space, and I’d like to give her a little boost of encouragement from us here in (blog)land as the snippet I’ve seen thus far (that you see above) is pretty gorgeous don’t you think? So, dear readers, be sure to stop by Emma’s place today to say hi (or bonjour – she loves everything French) and let’s give her a very happy (blog)house warming. 3 cheers for Emma!

xx