Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
It was a cold, gloomy day and I was feeling lazy and didn’t want to go out. So I took a look around the inside of our house to see what I could find to photograph. My wife had been putting away the Christmas decorations on our mantel and these were lying on the stone in front of the fireplace. Somehow they seemed a little sad as if they didn’t much like being put away for another twelve months.
Germaine.
I’ve posted about Germaine before in Germaine. She’s still going strong and today invited us to an impromptu lunch. She also invited another friend: our neighbor, Muriel. It was supposed to be just sandwiches, but if you read the linked post you’ll realize that Germaine does not do things by halves – particularly where cooking is concerned. We had a great time despite a few slight accidents: I managed to dribble some red wine on Germaine’s lovely table cloth (hand emroidered by her mother apparently); Muriel tipped her wine glass over onto the table cloth too. And finally Germaine herself managed to spill her coffee. She assured us that this had happened before and that the table cloth had survived unscathed.
Germaine has a lovely house located at the north end of the lake and I took advantage of the lunch to take a few pictures. Unfortunately (and unbelievably) I forgot to bring a camera and had to use my wife’s iphone.
The first batch of pictures were taken of her view of the lake and of objects in her garden:
I think I’ll always associate Germaine with cooking so the last few pictures are taken in, and around, her kitchen.
In the garden of our house in Briarcliff Manor.
I really have no idea why I found this appealing other than that it’s a bit quirky. I must be getting desperate.
I saw these lying on our patio. This was a bit of a surprise. I believe they are Maple leaves and if I’m correct I don’t really know where they came from as I don’t think we have any Maples on our property. Maybe they were blown over from a neighboring property? Still they were very colorful and I couldn’t resist putting a few of them together on top of one of the stones, which make up our patio. I think the colors are offset by the greys of the stone.