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De M’amour Soiez Sure
Our Valentine’s Day presents to each other: poesy rings inscribed with ‘Of my love be sure’ in French.
The original of this 15th century poesy ring can be found at The British Museum, Dept. of Medieval and Modern Europe, London, England.
The original of this ring is enameled gold. The hoop is rounded on the outer edge where it is engraved with an interlaced band between two rows of sprigs. The poesy is engraved in the interior of the ring in period French, though the ring is actually English. French remained the language of the Court and Nobility for several centuries after the Norman Invasion in 1066.
Poesy (n): A short poem or sentiment decoratively inscribed on rings or jewelry, particularly in the Middle Ages – usually a romantic gift or token of friendship.
Tradition has it that words which touch the skin have a particular power. Poesy Rings were traditionally given in sterling silver as engagement rings, and then replaced with the same ring in gold upon marriage.
Pre-Seattle Days
Those who follow me on Flickr will have noticed this already, but I’ve been spending some time digging through my old archive CDs and uploading a bunch of old photos from years (and digital cameras) past. At this point, I’ve made it through all my digital photos up to the last few days before I bailed out of Anchorage and migrated south to Seattle. As such, the two sets that have received the most attention are those for Gig’s Music Theater and Old Stuff: Life Before Seattle. Those who’ve met me (physically or virtually) more recently will find these of limited interest, but for those few of you who’ve known me for a while, you might get a kick out of some of these…and you might even find yourself in there a time or two!
Sleepy Turtle
One of my favorite shots from this summer.
Finally, More Photos!
I actually had a day off today. No school, no work, nothing. So, I spent the day working on getting caught up on some of my photographic backlog. I started by processing a set of shots of Club V that I’d been asked to take, then dove back into the vacation photos from this summer. Lots of photos of the Pana’ewa Rainforest Zoo just outside of Hilo (one of which ended up being my 11,000th photo uploaded to Flickr!), plus some more snorkeling.
I’m still not quite done with the vacation photos, but the end is in sight. Yay!
A Vogue New Year’s Eve
I don’t guess that I’ll be going — Prairie and I, over the past few years, have found that New Years Eve out and about is often just a bit too much — but it’s nice to see one of my photos in use on the flyer for Monsignior and Roxy’s New Years Eve’ bash!
Flyer under the jump…
Turtle Butt
In lieu of actually posting anything truly interesting, I give you one of my favorite shots from our trip to Hawaii this summer (no, I’m still not done working my way through all of them). Prairie and I were snorkeling early in the morning at Carlsmith Beach Park in Hilo, and had brought along a little disposable film waterproof camera. As we floated along, we were joined by a couple of sea turtles, cruising their way through the coral reef and finding their breakfast.
Why We Had to Move
After returning home from Hawaii (no, those pictures aren’t done yet, I’m just busy with work and school), Prairie and I found out we had to move (here’s my post and here’s Prairie’s on the debacle).
This shot is of what used to be our cute little apartment.
We’ve got a new cute little apartment now, sure, but…(sigh)…this one was our first. Not so cute now, is it?
Boy and Turtle (Black Sand Beach)
I’m starting to work on my pictures from the trip, but as the first priority is going to be the wedding shots, it’ll be a bit before I get everything up, and before I get my vacation recap posts written.
In the meantime, Prairie’s posted all of her photos (here’s one of me and a flippered friend), and has put up a few posts about the trip on her weblog!