#racine

[unteriors]

Cliff Avenue, Racine, Wisconsin.

[rustbeltjessie]

Some of my favorite photos I took in 2024. (13 instead of 12, because October had Chicago and aurora borealis, so I had to give it two.)

steam fog on the lake, North Bay (Racine), WI - January 16

hoarfrost on the dead sunflowers, Egg Harbor (Door County), WI - February 4

Bird Keeper by Janice Lowry, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI - March 14

blue walls at the diner, Frank’s Diner, Kenosha, WI - April 4

moon jellies, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL - May 15

golden hour, Kenosha, WI - June 8

fallen tree, Petrifying Springs Park, Kenosha, WI - July 11

fire pit, Fish Creek (Door County), WI - August 14

Norwegian Rosemaling, Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, WI - September 21

dusk comes on, Chicago, IL - October 5

aurora borealis, Racine, WI - October 10

orange before the rain, Racine, WI - November 18

you are as strong as you are honest, Racine, WI - December 15

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Research Tower, Johnson Wax Headquarters,

Racine, Wisconsin, USA,

Built: 1944–1950

Designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright

[guilbertjj]

Comme un petit jardin suspendu...

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Well now I have to ask:

Why do you hate Phèdre?

Side effect of studying it in school and it always being lauded as one of the best plays in French literature - it's great! I do think we could bear with giving some more attention to some of the more obscure ones.

Also, some of the quotes are carved into my brain and I'm not a particular fan of them so I'd like them to leave but my brain has said nope. (I'd much rather have Paradise Lost quotes in it at the moment, considering that's the topic of the essay I need to write, but my brain pulled a reverse Phèdre here.)

I also think the play is too long for what it is.

[frenchcurious]

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) SC Johnson Wax Complex & Research Tower, Racine, Wisconsin, USA, 1936-1939. - source Lilyane Haddad.

[chicinsilk]

Yves Saint-Laurent Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1971. Black wool jersey jacket by Racine trimmed with green wool and green and black printed silk crepe dress on a white background by Abraham, sandals by Roger Vivier.

Yves Saint-Laurent Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1971. Veste en jersey de laine noir de Racine gansée de laine verte et robe en crêpe de soie imprimé vert et noir sur fond blanc d'Abraham, sandales de Roger Vivier.

Photo Patrick Bertrand (L'Officiel 1971)

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

Jenkins Bread. Racine, Wisconsin. Postmarked Jan 1909.

[girafeduvexin]

Bérénice (Jean Racine, 1670) is an INSANE PLAY because NOTHING HAPPENS, it's a tragedy but no one dies!!! And it's even worse!!! It's the most painful breakup you will ever read, they are doomed by the narrative and they know it and they barely fight it "malgré lui et malgré elle", they are in their forties and they are so reasonable but they wish they weren't and its so much more tragic, they have loved each other for YEARS, they have been so happy, and they love each other so much but they will both die alone, quietly alone, they wish they could die at the end of the play, for their love, "j'espérais mourir à vos yeux" but they can't, they want to be Romeo and Juliet but they can't, they have be mature and they have to part from one another but Titus will never learn how to live without Bérénice and Bérénice will never learn how to live without Titus, i'm going to time travel and kill racine with my bare hands

[detournementsmineurs]

“Diadème aux Perles et Camées" anonyme ayant appartenu à la comédienne Rachel (1843) pour le rôle de "Phèdre" de Jean Racine (1687) à l'exposition “Bijoux de Scène de la Comédie-Française” dans les nouveaux locaux de L’École des Arts Joailliers à l'Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, Paris, juillet 2024.

[unteriors]

Bucktown Road, Racine, Ohio.

[rustbeltjessie]

Me at Eave, enjoying one of their speciality cocktails, The Monument Squared—gin, elderflower liqueur, cranberry juice, and lemon.

(December 28)

[christinesgsblog]

...

à ma demande il a mis trois ou quatre

jeunes plants dans de petits godets

je les regarde et je leur parle

il faut parler aux plantes 

...

[eshopchicago]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Advertisement of the Racine Tortue fishing line on a vintage postcard

[marydarkblacknoir]

Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;

Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit.

[When you are present, I flee from you; When you are absent, I find you;

In the depths of the forests, your image follows me.]

Racine, Phèdre