February 11, 2009

Things That Make My World a Better Place - A Partial List



William Morris
Van Gogh

treasure hunts
traveling
trains
Tintin

the pre-raphaelites

Katherine's Candaules speech in The English Patient

the Beatles

the 2CV

Sting
my brother
spaghetti carbonara
Sherlock Holmes
Sean Connery
Rupert Bear
romance

Poirot
picnics
periwinkle
Paris
Pablo Veron

old photographs
Obama

Noodles Romanoff

my son
Mozart
maps
Klimt

Kaffe Fassett

John Irving
James Stewart
hyacinths
hot air balloons
hats
Harry Potter
hand-made candy
Halloween

Great War fashions

Goldfish

Giverny


George Orwell
George
Gary Cooper

freesia
France
fireworks

Ernest Shepard
dirigibles
David Suzuki

crepes marrons
Colette
cinnamon hearts
Christmas crackers
children's hands
Charlie Chaplin
chameleons

butterflies
belly laughs from small children
back-rubs
babies

Audrey Hepburn
antiques
Amadeus
A.S. Byatt

3 comments:

sallymandy said...

Wow, CP, this must have taken you a really long time. So much interesting reading here. Thank you! We share some favorites: hyacinths and freesia and goldfish and Gustav Klimt and babies and Harry Potter, to name a few.

Noodles Romanoff: utter decadence and deliciousness.

Mary-Laure said...

I absolutely, totally adore your list; I'm a HUGE fan of Colette, Amadeus, Mozart, Audrey,little kids, hyacinths and more, and feel like we have SO MUCH in common it's almost uncanny...

The Clever Pup said...

Mary-Laure, that is SO nice to hear. Thanks for your comments. After checking out people's blog profiles I find usually there are several points in common.