Icecream&Fireflies

Sing me a song of icecream and fireflies and swear that we can remain sweet summer children forever this blog leaks time & space and is not spoiler free

[mademoisellesansa]

I do not think I will ever tire of seeing the sunsets over Victoria Park set the skies and seas ablaze #PEI #neverstopbeingatourist #oceancalling #nevergoinghome (at Charlottetown, P. E. I.)

[mademoisellesansa]

"... ancient days of sorrow ... ancient days of pain - heartaches from the past slowly begin to wane (from gleaming granules)" - Muse, Enigmatic Evolution Dandelion clocks tell us it is time to let it go #PEI #neverstopbeingatourist #nevergoinghome

[mademoisellesansa]

The shoreline of North Cape is cluttered with stacks of red sandstone gazing into the sea, like a forgotten graveyard for infatuation and ambition that visitors had abandoned here. I built a memorial to my own heart as well, and left some sea flowers on its grave. When we travel, perhaps we should always endeavor to lose some of the worst of ourselves and bring back some of the best of the places we visit. #neverstopbeingatourist #oceancalling #PEI #nevergoinghome

[mademoisellesansa]

There is no freedom quite like an empty expanse of endless beach, with the waves drumming against the shore and the sand singing beneath your feet #nevergoinghome #neverstopbeingatourist #PEI #oceancalling

[mademoisellesansa]

"The sea, once it casts it's spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever" - Jacques Yves Cousteau The red sand and blue waters and gray skies of Cavendish Beach where I've lost (what's left of) my heart #neverstopbeingatourist #PEI #oceancalling

[mademoisellesansa]

"I fell in love with the Island visiting Dutch friends in lower Belfast. In fact they're Canadians now. The velvet air took me by surprise in Halifax. As did the gentleness of the people. On the Island this appeared to double. Never thought of a place in your part of the world - as relaxing; a place where people have time - to tell stories about ancestors, about the effect - of a full moon on the snow. Time to talk about - everyday life as if it were grand. To weave on winter nights. In fact, I realized, this boils down to cherishing life and connecting ..." - Inge from Amsterdam #thekindnessofstrangers #PEI #neverstopbeingatourist (at Charlottetown, PEI)

[mademoisellesansa]

"... the Lake of Shining Waters was blue - blue - blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams" - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables We found our own (river) of shining waters walking and hitchhiking our way north to Brackley Beach 🏖 There is nothing quite like not exactly knowing where you're going or if you're even going to get there #neverstopbeingatourist #PEI #thekindnessofstrangers #flyingfree

[mademoisellesansa]

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith" - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America #justbostonthings #helloautumn #neverstopbeingatourist

[mademoisellesansa]

白天鹅为爱而舞。黑天鹅呢？那迷人的三十二回旋是为了爱情还是贪念还是一种说不清道不明的自尊与执着？ #tbt to experiencing the magic of Tsaichovsky's timeless #swanlakeballet with my parents for the first time @nycballet

[mademoisellesansa]

"Music is a universal language, and needs not be translated. With it soul speaks to soul" - Berthold Auerbach #jintalamvta performing in Dewey Square and proving that some things do not need #atranslationfromonelanguagetoanother #summerlove #justbostonthings #farewelltoaugust #helloautumn

[mademoisellesansa]

Thursday farmer's market haul from @kimballfruitfarm #haulgoals are #lifegoals #buylocal #justbostonthings (at Boston, Massachusetts)

[mademoisellesansa]

"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign I possessed places" - Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler #time #goeson #neverstopbeingatourist #summerlove (at Cambridge, Massachusetts)

[mademoisellesansa]

Spotted: Rhys & Tiny Tina from #talesfromborderlands with their finger gun games on point 👈👈👉 (at Boston, Massachusetts)

[mademoisellesansa]

"Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between two contradictions ... For the God wants to know himself in you" - As Once the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainier Maria Rilke @bplboston daycation with mom ☀️ (at Boston Public Library)

[mademoisellesansa]

Don't blink #weepingangels #theimageofanangelbecomesanangel 😬 (at Boston, Massachusetts)

[mademoisellesansa]

Can we pretend that airplanes in the afternoon sky are shooting stars? #summerlove #makeawish #happyfriday (at Boston Common)

[mademoisellesansa]

夏 》☀️ 》Summer! Late lunch outside on the greenway enjoying the August sunshine #justbostonthings #happinessallaroundus #summerlove (at Boston, Massachusetts)