Elizabethwix

LATEST ARTICLES ( 859 )

• Glimpses of Dar Tah-Tah

  

  Dar TahTah is a wonderfully funky no-frills tiny guest house tucked away in the medina just near the straw market with wonderful checker-board stairs and eau... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Paintings

  

  A long time ago, in another life, I was an art crtitic for Long Island Newsday. I would go to exhibitions all over the Island and have to come home and think... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shadow Shot Sunday/Cheerful

  

  Haven't participated in Shadow Shot Sunday for such a long time. Anyway it's lots of fun. This first picture isn't about shadows really. More something... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Rest of My Week

  

  The other day, before it got cold again, Scout came to the park. She is pretty big, but she is sometimes shy when there are lots of dogs.She mostly likes me. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Curiosities

  

  I am going to the dentist on Monday. Not this dentist, quite another one, who I'm sure will make my teeth as gleaming white and my gums as rosy pink. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• March Madness

  

  Quite the stupidest weather. Yesterday there was snow and rain and sleet.In the evening there were thunderstorms with hail. *Q This is looking out of the study... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 DESTINATIONS

• Downtown

  

  Had to go to J R Camera downtown . Subway to World Trade Center where things are actually being built at last. St. Paul's Churchyard in need of a spring... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• My Check-Up.

  

  At first I was a bit worried.This is Dr. Jaclyn feeling my tummy. Her helper is holding me to keep me safe.Now I am getting the hang of it. Dr. Jaclyn said if... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bad Photo Day

  

  For some reason I like the colors in this quite out of focus picture of an Amish couple at a design show on Pier 94. On Saturday I managed to break my Coolpix... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Architectural Digest Home Design Show

  

  A beautiful sunny day on Friday so my thoughts turned to spring. A friend had tickets to the design show at Pier 94. The flowers were far more interesting than... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Reflections

  

  The top three pictures are from the Jardin Majorelle, Marrakesh, Morocco. The small turtle was doing some sort of yoga pose to salute the sun. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Local

  

  Now the sun has finally come out, we venture outside to discover a shop window smashed on 8th Avenue. At first it's hard to work out if the crime scene tape is... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• My Haircut

  

  I was really pretty fuzzy.This is me looking as if I need a haircut.This is me after my haircut.Adam said I looked as if I had had a 'bob'.....That is a... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thinking in Black and White --Almost

  

  The news, mostly, is grim nowadays so here a little excursion into the mundane and remarkable. A rather clean vinyl floor in a jewelry shop in Morocco. I was... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Things Dogs Do: I Am Philosophical and a Little Sad

  

  *Sometimes I wish for a life full of adventure and excitement.In the olden days dogs had important things to do.Nowadays some of us just hang around waiting... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stripes

  

  * For some reason, even grocery stores in foreign parts are thrilling. Odd how the little rug on the right caught both our attention. Maybe it was the odd littl... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Easy Like Sunday Morning

  

  * Flowers from last night's party catching the light. Such a clear, bright morning with lots of sun.... ...but very dark clouds over New Jersey in the... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fatty Season is Upon Us

  

  *Maybe spring is coming. When we went out there was a bird going tweet, tweet, tweet.I do not know what kind of bird it was.Later I looked up and... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Little House Itself

  

  When we lived in the little house in Derb Djedid it had bags of charm -- but probably all sorts of structural defects and quirks. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Curious House/ Maison Tiskiwin

  

  Bert Flint, a Dutchman who is now eighty, has lived in Marrakesh since 1957. In the middle part of the last century he traveled round North Africa collecting al... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2011