Made with love by Cecilie

Since I am in the show and tell corner this week I thought I`d show you one of my alltime favorite photo books. The book has the most wonderful title: "For every minute you are angry you loose sixty seconds of happiness" and is made by photographer Julian Germain.

I initially picked up this book at my local bookstore some years ago because of the cover I think. It reminded me of the fabric of a sunbed my mom had in the 70s. And when I opened the book I saw these wonderful pictures taken of this sweet old man living alone with his flowers in a bright yellow house somewhere in England. I just had to have it.

The colors and the mood in the pictures are so beautiful, and really makes me appriciate the simple things in life. Like flowers, flowernames, toast and pebbles. :)

I`d also like to share some of the text in the book with you:

"I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April 1992."

"On the walls of his equally brightly decorated room there were numerous photographs of a lady I innediately understood was his wife. I said I thought they were lovely pictures and he told me that Betty had died, a few years ago now."

"Charlie was a simple, gentle, man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved colour and surrounded himself with colour. He loved his wife. He seemed totally unambitious; all he wanted was for his children to be happy.

Occasionally he would ask if I`d like to listen to some music and then he might play, for example, just tree songs from a Nat King Cole LP; but we would really listen to them. Music was never something to have on in the background.

He loved words and had the most well thumbed dictionary I have ever seen.
He did the Daily Mirror crossword every day. He was not a thinker, but he wondered. I bought him an atlas and he studied it in such detail, amazed by the world.

Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living."