Pete, the Awesome Battle Bear
I've had a little stuffed bear for 21 years named Pete. It's actually Pete, the Awesome Battle Bear, but that's rather a silly story and kind of long to type out, so let's just go with Pete, shall we? He's my security blanket, and I take him with me wherever I travel, because he never lets the car breakdown or the plane crash. :)
When I brought him with me to Paris in 2003, my friend Marie-Pierre had the wonderful idea of taking pictures of him in front of Paris landmarks. She probably would have thought twice of the suggestion if she'd known how fully I throw myself into such things, but suggest it she did, and I've had great fun taking pictures of Pete everywhere from dinner at Le Procope to the battlements of the medieval fortress city of Carcassonne. Let's just say Pete is a very well-travelled bear.
When we don't travel, every so often I take a picture of him anyway, watching the sun set or stopping to smell the roses. He even has a weblog, on Diaryland, where he actually has fans. After a round of photographs on Friday, I started thinking maybe I should do a book about Pete. When someone who reads his weblog suggested it today, that sort of cemented the idea for me. Call it serendipity, fortuosity, or just plain old coincidence, I'm a big fan of signs, so I'm taking this as one and putting a book together of Pete's adventures here in Paris. To that end, he has a new, booky blog at http://battlebear.blogspot.com. I hope you'll stop by and say hi. He's a good little bear. :)
A bientot,
Jenie
When I brought him with me to Paris in 2003, my friend Marie-Pierre had the wonderful idea of taking pictures of him in front of Paris landmarks. She probably would have thought twice of the suggestion if she'd known how fully I throw myself into such things, but suggest it she did, and I've had great fun taking pictures of Pete everywhere from dinner at Le Procope to the battlements of the medieval fortress city of Carcassonne. Let's just say Pete is a very well-travelled bear.
When we don't travel, every so often I take a picture of him anyway, watching the sun set or stopping to smell the roses. He even has a weblog, on Diaryland, where he actually has fans. After a round of photographs on Friday, I started thinking maybe I should do a book about Pete. When someone who reads his weblog suggested it today, that sort of cemented the idea for me. Call it serendipity, fortuosity, or just plain old coincidence, I'm a big fan of signs, so I'm taking this as one and putting a book together of Pete's adventures here in Paris. To that end, he has a new, booky blog at http://battlebear.blogspot.com. I hope you'll stop by and say hi. He's a good little bear. :)
A bientot,
Jenie
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