Thursday, March 21, 2019

Welcome to a Room with a View

Mr. Hunter would like to share with you a bit of the bliss
that comes from waking up in in Florence, Italy.
How you pad across the darkened room, 
how you reach up to unlatch the heavy white interior shutters,
and there, just outside your window,
the glory of your particular view.

The sun is rising over the bell towers, over the red rooftops of Florence.
You are on holiday here. You have the chance to ask yourself:
How shall I spend this delicious day?



Buongiorno!

                        

Here's a longer look at the morning view,
this time featuring a hint of the Duomo and the Palazzo Vecchio
and, ah, the chiming church bells!


Florence, Italy
October 2016

Sunday, July 30, 2017

The Everlasting Why

Flat Mr. Hunter was flat-out tickled to find this cucumber in the shape of a question mark at the farmer's market the other day.  Fans of the film A Room with a View might understand his excitement.


"Make my boy realize that, at the side of the everlasting "why," 
there is a "yes." And a "yes" and a "yes!"
(one of Mr. Emerson's immortal lines from the delicious 1985 film A Room with a View,
screenplay adaptation by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)

July 2013


Saturday, August 9, 2014

Mr. Hunter is on Instagram!

Mr. Hunter has joined Instagram, and while he's still posting to this blog, he'd love to connect with you there, too.

Follow him on Instagram at TheMrHunterWall.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Honeymooning in Croatia

Mr. Hunter got a taste of paradise on the Adriatic Sea 
when he tagged along on Becky and Brian's honeymoon.

Here he is apres swim, wrapped up cozily in a towel at the hotel pool in Split.

Here he is in Split again, waiting for the ferry to Hvar.

Thanks for taking Mr. Hunter on his first trip to the Balkans, Becky!

Split, Croatia
May 2013

Monday, February 17, 2014

On a Shark Diving Cruise

So, Flat Mr. Hunter and his friend Gail flew to Ensenada, Mexico last fall, boarded a small boat, and headed far out into the Pacific Ocean.  Their purpose?  To go on a great white shark dive!  

Gail's the one who actually did the diving.  Flat Mr. Hunter is certainly intrepid and waterproof enough to go diving with great white sharks, but he didn't want his laminated self to end up causing any trouble for divers or sharks, so he stayed on the boat.  He did pose for a few pictures with the shark cage and the home port of Ensenada, just so the rest of us could get a taste of their adventures.

Swimming with sharks is not advised!

One of the great white sharks Gail saw while diving.

Flat Mr. Hunter tried to sneak onto the shark diving cage.

Great white shark swim-by.

Heading out to sea from the port of Ensenada.

Thanks to Gail for letting Flat Mr. Hunter tag along on an adventure unlike any other!

M/V Islander
Pacific Ocean
near Guadalupe Island, Baja California
Mexico
September 2013

Official site for Islander Charters's Great White Shark Diving Excursions -
http://www.islander-charters.com/shark-diving/shark-diving-home.shtml

Monday, January 20, 2014

A Stone of Hope at the MLK Memorial

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day...



Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Washington, D.C.
November 2013

Official site - http://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm

Monday, December 30, 2013

Senor Hunter and La Sagrada Familia

Flat Mr. Hunter admires the gothic side of La Sagrada Familia, which has a nativity scene

Mr. Hunter's keeper has longed to visit Gaudi's famed Barcelona cathedral ever since she saw Irving Penn's marvelous photo of a funeral procession passing in front of La Sagrada Familia.

Funeral Cortège in front of La Sagrada Familía
Irving Penn
Thanks to the Pebbles From Paradise blog.

Flat Mr. Hunter and the austere Passion facade

Beautiful!  Mr. Hunter can't wait to see this cathedral with his own wooden eyes.  A big "Gracias!" to Liz for taking Flat Mr. Hunter to Barcelona in the meantime.

La Sagrada Familia
Barcelona, Spain
June 2011