Savoring beauty

By Caitlin Kelly

Every day, beauty sustains and replenishes me, whether natural or man-made.

It’s everywhere, every day, just waiting there quietly for us to notice it.

The sky, clouds and ever-shifting light.

The moon, at any hour.

The stars.

Trees, barren or blossoming.

A friend’s loving smile.

Early buildings with carving or terracotta tiles or gargoyles. (Look up!)

Here are a few of the many things I find beautiful — I hope you’ll savor them too!

I was so inspired by this — Charlotte Bronte’s dress and shoes. What an intimate memory of a fellow woman writer. (thanks to the Morgan Museum.)

Love discovering and poking around quirky/interesting shops. This one, GoodWood, is in Washington, D.C.

This is part of the Library of Congress, also in D.C.

A reservoir-side walk near our home in Tarrytown, NY. I know it in every season — and see amazing things when I slow down and look closely.

That same walkway in deepest winter

Looking down the stairs at Fortnum & Mason, London

In our rented cottage in Donegal. The essentials of my life: tea, laptop, newspapers and tools with which to create.

The doorknob of our friend’s home in Maine

A lamp on the campus of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

That reservoir walk — in spring!

Our view

A Paris cafe

Lincoln Center, Koch Theater, one of the great pleasures of living in New York

7:30 a.m., Lake Massawippi, North Hatley, Quebec

A Paris door

Florida

The Grand Canyon

A Philadelphia church window

Dublin