13-FEB-2011
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR. THANK YOU SHARON FOR THE "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" CUP.
08-NOV-2007
An orange for Barb.
I FOUND OUT TODAY THAT A LADY FRIEND DIED THE OTHER DAY. SHE WAS TOO YOUNG, IN HER LATE FIFTIES AND A GRANDMOTHER AND WIFE AND MANY MORE THINGS TO MORE PEOPLE.
I STARTED THINKING FIRST OF ALL WHAT SHE WILL BE MISSING WITH HER GROWING FAMILY AND HER FRIENDS. THEN I THOUGHT OF MYSELF IN HER POSITION AND WHAT I WOULD MISS. I FELT SOMEWHAT GUILTY FOR THESE PAST FEW DAYS, WEEKS AND MAYBE MONTHS THAT SHE HAD TO COME TO REALIZE HER FATE.
I TOOK THIS PICTURE TODAY OF AN ORANGE IN MY FRIDGE THAT IS GETTING A BIT OLD AND LAUGHED WHEN I OPENED THE DOOR TODAY AND SAW IT WINKING AND SMILING AT ME.
LATER IN THE EVENING I WAS GOING OVER THE FRIVOLITY OF MY FREE TIME AND THE DEEP REALITY OF HERS. I FELT GUILTY FOR TAKING THIS PICTURE. THEN I THOUGHT OF WHERE SHE MIGHT BE NOW. MAYBE LOOKING DOWN AND SEEING ALL THAT IS GOING ON SAYING 'MY GOODNESS MARGOT DO SOMETHING THAT COUNTS WHILE YOU CAN' OR 'WHAT A GREAT ORANGE. WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF IT?'
I TOLD MY SELF IT IS THE JOURNEY THAT MAKES LIFE WHAT IT IS. MY JOURNEY TODAY WAS TO GET SOME FUN FROM THIS SHOT SO I NOW POST IT WITH FOND MEMORIES OF HER AND HER HUMOR AND HOPE SHE GOT A KICK OUT OF IT.
THIS ONE IS FOR YOU BARB.
01-NOV-2006
our old house today.jpg
This picture was taken from a camera attached to a kite. KAP, Kite Arial Photography.
Isn't that amazing!
This house, which I have circled in green, borders the heath and fifty years ago my family and I lived in it for a short time while my father attended a naval course at Greenwich.
My sister took a trip to England this September and photographed our old house at 18 Montpelier Row.
So, I thought I would put in the pbase search 'Blackheath'.
I found an amazing site where a man had just visited the heath a week after my sister and had flown his kite with camera attached.
With such fabulous pictures to look at I was able to pick out our old house.
Had they been there at the same time I might have seen her in his phtograph. ;)
So with the permission of the photographer, Alexis Hadjisteriou, I was able to download some of his images. Thank you Alexis.
I have posted a link via thumbnail below the larger one so you can see the result of his time at Blackheath and beyond.
