I'm starting my own little blog ritual. I've seen some interesting ideas like "self portrait tuesdays" and "artifact mondays" so I'm doing my own version combined with something like the film Smoke's simplicity, yet profound and enduring effect of looking at the same thing everyday — along my way to work. Today is inspired by the pretty Christmas baubles in the window of Rayon Vert. The retail world is ready for Christmas, even if I'm not. Starbucks wants me to really grasp that "It ONLY happens ONCE a year" so certainly I shouldn't deny myself that pricey caloric gingerbread mocha frappuccino sugar gluck while I ponder how to spend my nonexistent Christmas bonus.

By the way, I just looked up "Rayon Vert". It's a novel by Jules Verne. Here's the plot: The heroes seek to see this ray with much patience in trimmings of Scotland (unfavorable to its observation because of the fogs). After many attempts at observation concluding itself by failures caused by the clouds or the sail from a boat, at far, which comes to hide the sun to them, the phenomenon will arise, but each of the two principal characters will be too occupied discovering the love in the eyes of the other to pay attention to the horizon. [yes, I had google translate the page from French] As for scientific fact: The existence of this phenomenon of green ray (gleam of color emerald when the sun disparait just on the sea) is attested by several testimonys, but seems to occur only under conditions of temperature and hygroscopy determined, which returns the observation of the rare phenomenon in practice, and sometimes disputed. The idea contained in the novel according to which it would be possible to envisage where and when to observe the green ray remains however a licence of author. And here I just thought it was a something you see while on drugs.