Jules Verne's The Green Ray: Green

20201230, This year's color is ________. The heroine Helena Campbell travels — together with her uncles and the science geek (that's the only way to describe him) they've picked out as her fiancé — to see the green ray, said to keep her from being fooled by feelings of love (in other words, to let her recognize true love when she sees it). After a long and winding journey she falls in love along the way with the hero, Olivier Sinclair. At the end of the trip, not a short one, the group finally witnesses the green ray. #JulesVerne #TheGreenRay But the moment the group sees the green ray, Helena is looking into Olivier's eyes and sharing a moment of true love with him, so she herself never actually sees it. Was that the real power of the green ray? Pantone's color of the year was Classic Blue, but for various other reasons this turned out to be a year I thought about green a lot. #Green This book actually became the main inspiration for the film The Green Ray. I picked it up after hearing about the #EricRohmer retrospective this summer — though I should note for the record that I failed to catch The Green Ray in theaters and ended up watching it belatedly on #Watcha. #rayonvert And today's breakfast happens to be green too. -(No time to boil and peel eggs) so I make poached eggs instead. -Drizzle olive oil in a pan, a little salt and pepper, and sear asparagus. Before eating, add a bit of almonds, balsamic, and olive oil too.