The Big Picture - Beaton and Hockney

OK sorry to be a terrible tease but I'm going to finish posting the Beverly Boulevard shopping series next week as there are so many pictures yet, I might have to break them up into several entries!  

Instead can I treat you to a photo and series that appeared in the English newspaper, the Guardian, recently. To get you in the mood for a light-hearted summer weekend.  I have to share, because of the greenery and the smiles, and despite the suits-socks-wristwatches-and-camera, that this photo reminds me just a little of the atmosphere off of Fire Island in New York on a summer weekend where and when it would not be unlikely to see, as you are putt-putting across the Long Island sound on the Ferry with your bicycle, your loved ones and your weekends supplies, another boat alongside CHOCK-A-BLOCK full of quite naked, carousing, insouciant, GAY MEN!!!!!!!

To paraphrase someone I loved very much, it takes ALL KINDS to make up a world.  And to each, his very own kind of PARADISE.  Certainly these two with their cheerful insouciance have each in their own artistic ways, over many years, created very special kinds of Paradise for all of us to share in.  (And if you don't know them already, you MUST GOOGLE!  You don't know what you are missing!)

Here's a link to the very witty series written by Peter Conrad:  The Big Picture.  Where you will also find links to other Big Pictures of other kinds and times.  And interesting and informed comment to go along with!  Cheers!