This week's Pleasing Photo is a (kind of!) self portrait, taken during my first outing since being ill. Here it is:
I love the way the early evening sunlight slants through the trees around here. (That is, when there is any sunlight to speak of - which there has been this weekend, hooray!)
I wandered abroad for only about 25 minutes on Friday evening. I tried out a number of photographs, several of which were failures. I'm always drawn to the patterns in the mud and the reflections in puddles, but quite often they don't come out anything like how I expected. So instead, here are a couple of upward-looking shots:
On Saturday I was fit to go a little further afield, walking as far as the fabric shop, where I needed to purchase some elastic for a certain sewing project I have
finally begun (sorry, Becky!). Today I made it to church and back, and very much enjoyed the service.
My feet have been encased all weekend in a new pair of
Toms shoes. (Not Thom's shoes*. That's different.) What I like most about them is how the manufacturer give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every single pair they sell to people like us... but I also like the way they're surprisingly comfortable - kind of almost like wearing a sock instead of a shoe. Noah likes the way they look stylish (or so he says). I'm also very fond of the fact that, despite the subdued black of their outer surface (purchased to wear to work), the inside is decorated with printed elephants, rhinos and lions. Even if they
look boring, I know they're not.
* When I talk about wearing Thom's shoes, I mean the pair of red Converse trainers three sizes too big for me which my kind little brother gave to me as a birthday present after he'd worn them for a year or so.
