The taming of. the shrew

It is still a funny piece played often and very differently each time.

Do we want to hear its messages - and what are they?

Nowadays, they play it as if it become a play only between the husband, loving his wife and the wife, finally being loved; But is it? Was it?

They did perform it like they thought it would have been at old times and with songs and dancing and very big funny movements - it did work for adults and it did enchant the young audience.

They had to postpone it twice, as it rained and it could not be performed in the park as programmed, finally they did find a community theater to play it for free to anyone. The outskirt Maryland theater was almost full!

It was a nice way to finish the three weeks in USA.

Home sweet home!

Not only I am home, not only I love it, but now my sofas are cleaned and the order surprised me in my living room!

Perhaps, could surprise anyone who have been to my place lately in France, too.

The place where I lived, for the 15 years when I was married become slowly a place where we could barely move because so many books and papers my husband put everywhere, first on tables and chairs then on the ground too. Once, toward the end I did order them a bit - perhaps that was the beginning of our end together.

"I do not find anything any more!"

So what? I did need some space to live, myself.

Then I did live for myself for seven years, in the small house near Paris. At the beginning, it had almost nothing in it. Then, books arrived and somehow it filled up, more and more. From time to time, I did arrange my papers and even the books found places but then, a period of feeling less good would arrive and again it was fuller then I really liked to live in.

Now, if books come, or they go, or I buy a new bookcase! I now have four big and a smaller one. Still some books near my bed on the table, and one of the chairs near the sofa, but they do not stay long there. I read, or I dispose them where they belong.

The only mess is still my writing desk where lot of papers are one on the top of the others - still to be dealt with and not so easy to find. But I learned that it is even worth to make my bed in the morning, to signal myself: now your day to work, blog, etc. begins! And it is so much pleasant to look at while I am at my computer - as my bed chamber is also partly my workplace.

I even succeed to keep the kitchen in order - surprising myself almost day by day! Does it mean I am happy here? I do think so. (I wanted to write instead 'you bet')

Water fuuuuunnnnnn!!!!!

This picture is by Inigolai from Flickr,

I would have liked to do one so good!

but I was also afrait to go to near - or did not use strong enough zoomer lens to take it as here - it seems as if it takes place just before our eyes!

I did learn so much from others photos - bur also I could more, by stoping and thinking how they have done it - as I do begin to think now about Public Speaking.

Home, tired, happy

As usually, happy I went, happy I was there and for lots more, but tired - not yet slept more then two hours;

I missed night begins so be heavy on my shoulders.

London's Red buses

I miss them, tomorrow I'll see them again.

A puzzle

I admire what others can do, like this part of a huge puzzle, but do not have the patience to do them.

I do have the patience to go through lots of books about Public speaking, taking from each some wisdom I could try out, use or eventually teach to the others.

Tomorrow back, London is awaiting for me - or so I feel.

I know a lot more then a year ago, when I just arrived from Paris to London what is there, but there is so much more to discover!

"Seafood city"

Looking at a simple photo, what can we learn from it? Discover in it?

In this one, I just took enough that one can see he was selling shrimp but mostly that he was using glows and had tattoos on his arms. But looking on the bigger size of the picture, one can discover more of the background.

I'll have to spend many hours to mine all the information and think about them of the pictures taken in less then an hour!

Soon, back to London, back to Toastmasters clubs, back to Photo Expo, back to my beloved apartment. New adventures wait for me, but I'll not forget those I had here, in and near Washington.