Virtually Gina

The title of this post is adapted from a 1929 magazine article, “Paint and Powder,” wherein Zelda Fitzgerald writes: “If our women gave up decorating themselves we would have to turn sad eyes on the bleak telegraph wires, the office buildings, like homes of trained fleas, the barren desolateness of city streets at dusk, and realize too late that almost the only beauty in this busy, careless land, whose every acre is littered with the waste of day before yesterday, is the gorgeous, radiant beauty of its girls.”

Although I do love the prose, I must say I disagree with this statement. Visiting some of the more run-down parts of both Camden and Philadelphia, I’ve come to believe that beauty and fecundity are readily apparent even amidst neighborhoods otherwise stricken by poverty and urban blight.

See for yourself . . .

Photos © 2013 by Gina Marie Lazar Lovrencevic. All rights reserved.