Thanksgiving

This is a post to file under 'sometimes other places' (see blog sub head)

Also under memory and thankfulness.

 all photos courtesy of Claudia Schmid

Here is the cottage where I spent summer holidays long ago. I never went there in November but my daughter went recently. Ah, the wonders of Instagram!

Here it is straight on with different color paint than I recall and a different gate.

Here are some cows waiting to produce milk for clotted cream - at least I hope so.

Here is St. Winnow the other side of the Fowey River. We used to take the canoe there and wander in the churchyard.

Here is a beach on the north shore with a stream meandering through it - how perfect for feats of engineering!

How people are dwarfed by the wide Atlantic beach...

A Hint of Pink: or the Dawnserly Light

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In the late afternoon, the sun paints otherwise dull buildings nice pastel colors.

Very early this morning the sky was beautifully pink --- looking both to the West...

...and to the East.

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Shadow Shot Sunday/Finally

The studio windowsill about 4pm.

Paper piled on the radiator and the blind pulled

down against the too-hot summer light.

For other Shadowshots from around the world go HERE 

This photo is by the amazing photographer Susanna Gordon.
I'm doing a post and book giveaway in conjunction with her

on my other blog.

The Beach in September

For a much longer post about the beach,

 please go to my main blog

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Pigs Want to Go Shopping

Hi porkers -down in the Meat-Packing District.

I am learning to make the pictures bigger. Maybe.

Buster's blog here

Elephants, Tigers a Camel

Friends came over to hear about our trip to India. Oh boy, holiday snapshots!

Show and tell. At least you can put the photos on the computer as a slide show

with the Ken Burns effect --minus the mopey music

and chat through the whole thing.

Oddly, we didn't buy too much in India but were charmed

 by the wooden elephant and tiger above.

Their heads and tails bob up and down when you circle a little wooden ball.

Four year old twins of our acquaintance here they come.

Do not let Danny-Patty (little brother) eat them as the paint is sure to be toxic.

This painting is even smaller than shown here and shows a pretty typical family

both in elephant and real worlds.  Parents locked together

 in affection or combat --or both. One child hanging out with Mom and Dad

the other off in search of adventure.....

Obviously, I am a complete sucker for images elephants. 

These nice pink ones run round on soft light cotton.

 

These green ones trot round the corner of an enormous piece of fabric

 which could be a table cloth or even a bedspread.

 

Elephant silk scarf sent to daughter -- but the little camel is lovely too.

Happiness

Though this photo has nothing to do with New York -- readers can guess where it was shot --I offer it in the spirit of the season. Photo courtesy of Claudia Schmid.