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Treasure

11/29/2013

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Going to the Louvre with your camera is abit like prospecting. You dig and dig and once in awhile your looking rewards you with treasure. That ping of recognition that you're looking at something that you recognize, not through familiarity but through some obscurely struck and echoing cord. Of course in the Louvre the challenge is discovering your treasure amid the superabundance of other treasures. How about the Raft of the Medusa?
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Or this statue of winter.
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Some marble fruit and grapes.
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This jewel of a portrait by Bartholomeus Pons (1535?)
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J pretending he's still in Venice with this Canaletto.
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Or a Mona Lisa selfie?
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And then from home this super story about the owners of the Big Top Restaurant where Rod and i often go for breakfast. The owners found a circus mural during some recent renovation, that covers an entire wall of the restaurant. This story filled me with glee. Sometimes the treasure is right there under your nose.....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/paul-wilson-big-top-restaurant-s-long-lost-circus-mural-is-back-1.2444316
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Kathleen
11/29/2013 06:30:04 am

Great story, truly a buried treasure!

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