Autumnal Cycle

Who said Washington, DC style is an oxymoron? People who do not live here, that's who. Here's a pretty flower-bedecked bicycle downtown. And where are we? Why, we are resolving a year+ computer crisis (finally). Additionally, we are self-censoring about some matters for the abstract future. Soon GG will be paw-painting & her editor will post those sure-to-be-declared masterpieces. It may come to that, yes.

Meanwhile, you might go to links such as Made4Aid & Darfur Peace & Development Organization (DPDO) to look around, do a little bidding, do a little good. Thanks!

ciao-flowery-meow/GG Central

[Elegant bicycle at Farragut Square by George Brett & his iPhone /used by permission]

Bicycle love

Charming bicycle-themed items from CircaCeramics on Etsy. Here's their February 2008 profile interview as a featured seller. For those of us who are without a bicycle, these can help. Take a look at this sweet bicycle notebook from violet.com [via A Cup of Jo's 2007 Gift Guide] GG is asleep in a sunbeam (an unholy cold wind blows today) after looking at these bicycle basket photos from Copenhagen Cycle Chic...she dreams of flying down a hill, in a flower-bedecked basket, her ears flattened back against her head.

ciao-meow, baci, bisou!
GG's editor

Cycle Chic in Copenhagen

A beautiful photo, Waiting* from Copenhagen Cycle Chic. We'd be green with jealousy except that the photographer is so very kind to allow us to use the photo (here is his Danish website). Check out this elegant shot, one of our favorites (to choose even 20 favorites is impossible). After a look at these, we are ready to grab the passport, pop GG into her carrier, & move to Copenhagen. GG could ride in her basket, her editor could wear her high-heeled boots...without people tsk-tsking. Alas, we are in Washington. However, it's a wonderful feeling to walk around town...as a friend said at Thursday's lunch...it's not a dream, Obama is President-elect. Now if only we could fast-forward to 20 January 2009.

bisou, mes amis
GG Central

photograph by Mikael Colville-Andersen/used by permission of photographer

Aujourd'hui, le vélo

Ah, le vélo...we miss you. The photo by The Sartorialist, 29 Jan. 2007, is one of his favorites. The bike might be an Automoto, very like GG's editor's battered old one in Strasbourg. The woman's self-possession & style? Not for sale. We cringe at those who slavishly try to replicate other people's style...it is so not the point. It's mannered, inauthentic, & awkward. Inspiration, that's one thing...copying is so...comment dit-on? Icky. Ah, oui...eee-kee.

bisou!