this was a fabulous morning. i really appreciate my time alone nowadays. i got to walk over to the market and pick up some veg for christmas all by myself. a 3 mile round trip with my ipod and ample photo opportunities thanks to the fog, totally uplifting.

an interesting editing excercise, since i had half a dozen or so candidates. i think i picked the least obvious one, i like the textures and dodgy curvature.

takes after her mother

this dreadful pic is the only digi one i took this day. we don’t have a (conventional) tree so this was her first bauble. we were at a party and i was playing with the rollei. i doubt i got anything usable out of it, but was fun trying, the world looks pleasingly different through that vignetty finder.

it’s gratifying (yet somehow alarming) how quickly M responds to attention, her behaviour can turn around over night. we’ve both been missing our time together and lately i’ve been doing the bath/bed routine that dad had taken over since G arrived. as a result she can’t do enough for me the rest of the time. it’s lovely to see the considerate, caring, carefree little girl we know and love show her face a bit more often.

i like the movement of the water in this picture, M’s presence is definitely in the frame this time. the floaty things are her dress-up stick-on bath people.

my brain is shot. not entirely pregnancy/small children related, i’ve never had the best memory, but i’ve really started to notice it lately. hence the blog, and the photography fetish. unless i record it in some way it’s likely to disappear forever. happily this isn’t my list, i went out