Dépaysement
(out of your ordinary)...
Sometimes life just hands you a little dépaysement (out of your element, beyond your familiar, outside your ordinary).
I love this French word which has country (pays) in its middle.
I love words that work from the inside out like this. Giving you an image that touches something in your own center, so you know what the word means without abstraction.
It was 5 degrees when I photographed my Sunday (dimanche) cup. A cup that generally holds tea, but this past Sunday held café (coffee) with whipped cream.
Out of my element.
Photography sneaks up on me this way, luring me to go where I otherwise might not.
Stepping out into a new landscape, where nothing is yet set.
Seeing light and shadow as art.
Art that, for just this moment, has erased, transformed the usual.
(Beneath that snow (la neige), above, is actually my car.)
Living the creative life is a rhythm.
From le dépaysement back to our familiar hearth.
(translation: as always, L.L. :)
below ↓ the volvo sitting for her artistic moment après (after) la neige
Love that cafe with whipped cream! That's a lot of snow. I know my sisters and brothers near Corning and Waterloo got a lot of that as well, and my sister in Virginia is getting the northeaster today. Lagniappe -- a great Cajun word.
Your buried Volvo took me back! In the 60s my husband and I bought a 1959 Volvo ... they looked like VW bugs on steroids. Then we bought a new one in 1968 and had so much trouble because the American mechanics couldn't figure out the engine!
Love your photos of the snow.
Is there some Venn diagram overlap between depaysement and lagniappe?
Love the photos, the whiteness. Looks like the snow was a little higher on your wheels than on mine.