A lil' trip to the local garden centre

I love the simple pleasures in life, just a lazy sunny Sunday with my dad and my brother's family to the teenee tiny local garden centre. We all tend to forget from time to time especially for those of us who live and work in the city that nature plays a significant part in our happiness; the kind of happiness that makes our blood flow with serenity(not the Walt Disney kind), and gentle smiles peak through the corner of our mouths willingly. Just the hour there took me back to my days of living in the antipodean where garden centres can be just as big and popular as shopping centres... with tea rooms to boot!

The splendor in shapes and sizes and the sheer magnificence in color of the tropical flora and fauna never fails to impress me. Here are just a small bundle of treats for your eyes only :)

Christmas in Paris?

.... nop! I won't be spending Xmas in Paris, sad for some but not for me. I'm off to a warmer climate as the cold tend to immobilize me and we don't want that do we ;)

The weekend before I left for my vacation in the tropics, we took a stroll under the beautiful fluffy snow with intention of crossing the river Seine for a picturesque winter view; co-incidentally absorbing some of the festive deco on our way there around the Place Vendôme square, and along the nearby street 'Rue de la Paix' world famous for shopping and it's high-priced boutiques in predominantly jewelry. You'd find labels such like Dinh Van, Georg Jensen, Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Repetto etc, not all necessary to my personal liking but yet worth a window looksie of their spectacular displays to meet and greet the festive season!

Don't mean to be a party pooper but, it stands out like a sore thumb that this particular council of this 'Champagne and caviar' arrondissement have spent up large on deco and electricity(not to mention cleaning the streets, good for them not so good for the rest in the not so significant areas), on these extravagance to elevate nothing but one's urge to spend and feel poor!! But, on the other hand I have to say that these gorgeous designery-funky-coral-like lights that climb the outside walls of every building are indeed spectacular juxtaposed against the generic taupe colored Parisienne architecture.

Jiggles and wishes to you all, until next year x
P/S: I love the xmas tree constitute of used plastic bottles, tops!(no pun intended) – delaying the inevitable but point noted.