The Heart Travels ~ Mon Cœur de Voyagé

Where does your heart yearn to journey?  This is a question that surfaces quite often for many.  Lucky for you and lucky for me we live in the age of social media and websites devoted to a myriad of locations in this beautiful world!  We can travel to any destination, learn about the people of the area(s), see the flora and fauna, and learn and see a myriad of so many other things peculiar to that virtual area...all within the span of minutes.  We travel there within a matter of minutes!


For those who have been fortunate to have actually made the yearning a reality, you have pictures to relive those special moments.  Through these photographs one can relive those special moments in time.  Relive the moment you only dreamed about or read about.  The pictures in this writing are two such pictures.



Sacré-Cœur Basilica.


I visited this beautiful basilica on my first trip to Paris.  Such marvelous beauty to behold!  Until the moment in which I snapped the first photograph, I had only visualized this beautiful structure based on words and pictures found in a book!  You see, social media was just beginning to have a foothold back then.  The information I garnered was indeed through various books.  Now, however, one need only go online and search!  You can search for image(s) and/or text. You can access the information AND graphics.  In short me instances, you Ca even view video clips about the area!



The second photograph (below) was taken years later. (trip six or seven-I cannae recall!)  This photograph was inspired by a photo I had seen in one of the many research books I read.  I can tell you the same exuberance is with me today when I view these pictures!

...another journey...another time

It is high time, I return...  

It has been far too long...where to begin...

I have traveled many miles since my childhood.  Some locations were only dreams or so I had thought...

As a young girl, growing up with and in a family who (in my opinion) had no far reaching goals other than to exist from day to day, I often thought (daydreamed)  that one day, I would venture out into the "world" far from the home I lived in.  I dreamed of traveling to foreign lands, of seeing and doing things considered "foreign" and different from the world I grew up in.  I did exactly that.

As you can see from some of my previous posts, I have been able to travel over the waters (as foretold to me by a Gypsy in my teen years) to so many destinations.  Destinations I only read or dreamed about as a young girl is often want to do.  So many of these dreams and destinations coming to fruition.

While I have loved many of the cities and countries I journeyed to,  there is one place that has continually held my heart:  Paris.  Just the name evokes memories and as well as adventures yet to come!

Why?  I cannot even begin to tell you!  I know that the city itself still holds many mysteries to me...all awaiting discovery.  Truly there are many like myself...obsessed with a destination. Obsessed with no logical explanation other than it "calls" to me.  It beckons to me.  Oh I have traveled there many, many times, but each visit was/is never enough for me!  I see myself returning one day and another and another...

There are other destinations that call to me and those will I will write about as well, but for now I can only share in words and photos...

Mahalo, Ke Akua...

...be grateful for who and what you have...
...there are those who are not as fortunate as you (or I)...
...those who have (and had) it all...
...or so you/they thought...
...and then, in just an instant! Poof! It is gone!
...So my family and friends...
...cherish who and what you have in front of you now...
...as tomorrow they (it) may be gone...
...enjoy the beauty of this earth...

...that God has painted for us...

...from His never ending palette of colors...
Me ke aloha...

photography/words: TePoeNoir

Adieu la France...

One of my last views of France (Meaux)...

that is etched in my memory...

a country that I never tire of visiting...

J'attends avec intérêt de retourner

...sigh...

FALL - Katzenbach (Stuttgart Germany 2008)

God once again painting his landscape for all to see the beautiful colors of His palette.

What a wonderful time of the year as mother nature prepares her "children" for winter! She makes them warm and cozy so that they will give up their leaves--these delicate leaves will not feel the 'sting' of Winter's snow. Rather, the tuff covering of bark surrounds the delicate interior...fending off that 'sting'.