June Diet
an escape from time and place, lilac sparkling water, fanny pack update etc.
Here is monthly “diet” of things that have either occupied my thoughts, moved me in some way or just felt special enough to share; what I was reading, watching, eating, wearing, shopping for, and visual research that shaped my month for paid subscribers (thank you!)
To start, I’ve been listening to Horace Andy’s cover of Love Hangover on repeat. I want to try making Martha Stewart’s spectacular watermelon bombe. Perfume-wise I’ve been rolling on Universal Flowering’s Holy Hell, a favourite summer scent (the note of beach ball accord is really coming through this year).
Next, as part of our Toronto playground tour, we visited one of the city’s best works of art: the very seasonally appropriate Asparagus Climber:
Another seasonal highlight: I love when peonies resemble big scoops of strawberry ice cream, as was the case with a bouquet I picked up at the market the other morning:
And another seasonal highlight: lots of Ice Cream - from Bruno Munari’s ABC:
Watching
To both get inspired for future holiday destinations and travel through film I watched four of Eric Rohmer’s summer films. A travel guide of sorts. An escape from time and place. First through Cherbourg, The Alps, Biarritz, and Saint-Jean-de-Luz in The Green Ray (1986); next to Normandy in Pauline at the Beach (1983); then alongside Lake Annecy in Claire’s Knee (1970); and finally to Saint Tropez in La Collectionneuse (1967). Something I love about Rohmer is the seasonality of his films. You know you’ll be able to feel the heat through the screen, the salt on your skin, the cool breeze coming off the lake, the bite of a peach when viewing. You know you’ll be getting the perfect summer’s tale if you pop on, say, The Green Ray (my current, and possibly all-time, favourite of the four). I’m partial to Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs series over his Moral Tales so will just focus on the two from that series here: