Palate Cleanser 2010

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Dear Everyone:

I took this image at a top

restaurant. I thought the tablescape

was very attractive and wanted

to record it.

I am very pleased with the result.

This posting is like a palate

cleanser at a fine meal of

several courses. Typically

sorbet a palate cleanser

prepares one for renewing

the taste buds for subsequent courses.

This image of a tablescape is refreshing

after pictures of nature and architecture

and heavenly images like angels

posted to this blog recently.

The image of a tablescape reminds me of

the work of Maria Alexandra Vettese and

Stephanie Congden Barnes in their

collaborative book "A Year of Mornings"(2008).

New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

These two women met once and live

several thousand miles apart in Portland,

Maine and Portland, Oregon.

They posted to a shared blog a year

of photographic images from their personal lives

each morning before 12 noon.

A charming result the book is

well worth a look.

The tablescape image is also

reminscent of the work of

fine art photographer Karen

Rowantree of Jo Beale gallery,

Peggy's Cove (www.jobealegallery.net).

Rowantree took photographic images

of partially eaten or completed

meals and recorded the result.

Hope that you enjoy this tablescape image.

Have a treat-yourself-kind-

of-Sunday today.

Helen.