Nicaragua..

(Photos by Tavarua)

Granada, Nicaragua

Around the Campfire...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

"It's the camp smoke. Watching a fire, seeing it sparkle, and the stars. You get the best out of people when they're sitting around a camp fire. People forget Belgravia and Fifth Avenue and finally become themselves." - F.M. "Bunny" Allen

Spicy/Hot Chorizos

Grilled Onions and Peppers

Aged meat on the Grate

(when meat is aged the flavor intensifies)

 Dessert - Dutch Oven

Breakfast around the campfire...

Travellers move slowly from Continent to Continent...

(Photos by Tavarua)

It is Time...  

After thinking long and hard - It certainly would be pleasant to be back and set up a simple "Travellers Nest" under the sun in the Tropical Zone for some years.

So where would life take me? Here is the list;

The Hawaiian Islands?

 Micronesia?

Caribbean?

or

???

I could change my mind the last minute.

Time Will Tell... 

Finished...

100 x 100

Abstract  - Of course... 

I do fully agree with Francis Bacon that:

"Painting is a duality and abstract is an entirely aesthetic thing.  It always remains on one level.  It is only really interesting in the patterns or its shapes." 

Northern Europe - 2012...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

We are closing the doors to 2011 and a new year is born...

Time is swift, it races by.

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree."

- William Faulkner

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.  You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and unknown."

- Denis Waitley

Our Tastes are Traditional, Old and Simple...

Année 1811

You asked me the other day for some advise on rare bottles - my knowledge is limited but may I suggest the exceptional quality of year 1811 ...

Année 1811

Année 1840

Année 1895

And if you are a connoisseur - 1928 and 1948 Hine Grande Champagne Vintage Cognac for those special evenings.

and why not - a bottle of Laphroaig - Année 1887

and for Port a bottle of Tuke Holdsworth 1912 or 1920...

Timeless Furniture - Christmas Wish list for your "Travellers Nest"...

Folding Chair in Oiled Walnut...

If you like a contemporary take on Campaign Furniture - Wood/Leather/Canvas - Pure understated Elegance and Simplicity -  Get it from Richard Wrightman...Brilliant - we all are in need of portable furniture.

Folding Chair for your travels

Richard Wrightman’s campaign inspired furniture- simplicity taken from the Scandinavian designs - (A reminder about Designer Carl Malmsten's refined designs) mixed with the old English Campaign style.  

Cot - for "Under Canvas" or in your "Travellers Nest"

Cot used as a Coffee table

Luggage Rack

Stool

Desk Chair

Folding Screen

Tray Table 

Bookshelf

Coffee Table

All Photos from his site - click the below...to explore more of his designs

http://richardwrightman.com/

Christmas Wish List for Your Study/Library/Trophy Room? To Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Early Morning - A Walk With Nature - Northern Europe...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

Waking up - another great day - a moth on the window...

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

Today a walk with nature...

After breakfast in the old library...

The sun is rising...

Shadows from the old trees - reflections of the past... 

The air is cold and crisp...

Some frost on the ground...

"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen."

- John Muir

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not knowing, life would not be worth living."

- Henri Pioncera

"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sculptured by nature - a simple leaf of beauty...

Another evening and a walk in the park. 

Evening smoke...