 |
| {Tenin Perspective - Paris Daily Photo: ink & watercolour illustration by Shell-Sherree} |
My life took a new turn when I happily stumbled upon
Paris Daily Photo while following a croissant-crumb trail of links back in 2008. I'm guessing it started with typing Paris into Google ~ no need to bring bring Inspector Maigret out of retirement.
I fell a bit in love with Eric Tenin and his gaggle of loyal followers. This was my first encounter with BlogLand ~ and wow. The wit, the repartee, the camaraderie! The Paris eye candy, from the gilty gloriousness to the everyday! I was captivated. After lurking shyly for a crazy length of time, I still remember squeezing up the nerve to leave my first comment, and the warm glow of being welcomed {by
Coltrane_lives first, if my memory serves correctly}. Eric and Paris Daily Photo sparked the start of my own blog and many dear friendships both on and off our various respective blogs, seeded in a common love for Paris and discovering a whole bunch of other kinships {not the least being kitties}.
Each year, Eric holds a Paris Daily Photo Picnic {aka the PDP Picnic, pronounced PDP Pique-nique by those in the know}, and way back I whipped up a little illustration for the 2009 edition. What do you know,
tomorrow heralds this year's picnic so I've gone back to the archives and bent my 'no repeats' illo philosophy as I thought it would be fun to revisit. Eric has updated his site design a couple of times since I did this, so it can go into the archives for posterity's sake {and posterior's sake}. I won't be there and each year it comes around, I kick myself up the proverbial for not getting my proverbial to Paris yet. I hang my head, Yoda, as I do my best to follow your wisdom:
Do or do not. There is no try.
But if you are going along,
here's something you can slip into. Plenty of layers in case of uncertain weather. Let us pray for baby blue skies ~ either way, the picnic will be lit by the sunshine of your smiles. And on that note...
Happy Francophile Friday PDP Picnic Edition to you...