Waking Up

 

Waking up is a parachute jump from dreams.
Free of the suffocating turbulence the traveler 
sinks toward the green zone of morning. 

Prelude (fragment). 1954

Tomas Tranströmer.
Winner of the Literature Nobel Prize 2011.
 
Full article in the NYTimes.

World Photography Day

"World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift "free to the world"."

Flickr and The Guardian and I guess a lot of other sites are making groups to share the photos you take today and/or during the weekend... so, take a photo, take, take, take a photo! :)

My photo is part of the West Country Tour that I recently made. I promise I'll keep writing about starting today. It's the perfect Mr. Whippy and was made and eaten in Durdle Door and is illustrating this post because it was the first thing that came into my mind when I read the world gift. A Mr. Whippy, is also a gift to the world. A delicious one. No doubt about it.