and seeing someone else’s face…….
Despite the grain (high isos on 10ds don’t go) and despite the reflections, I like this shot. I spotted it a couple of days ago, when wandering past this place late at night but couldn’t get a shot at night because no tripod and no conveniently parked car to use as a tripod!
This morning, before being on my way, I decided to do it in daylight and although I was still peering into a darkened shop window, there was just enough light to get the shot.
It’s quite a good lead in to my ‘story’ of today, coming as I have from my corporate world of high drama, high stress and high action, back to my home world where there was enough light on arriving home to be able to wander round the garden, get very excited at the number of plants springing up in the veggie patch and in the greenhouse.
We even spent half an hour stacking logs into the garage to dry out before next winter, having had a lorry load delivered this afternoon.
Every time I have an experience like this, I am reminded of the stark contrast between my two worlds. Most of the time, I don’t notice it so acutely because I arrive home later and often in the dark so I sort of acclimatise over night before picking up the reins of my home life but this time, partly because of lengthening days and partly because of an earlier ‘flight’ home than usual, I have experienced both worlds in a day.
When I get home and see myself ‘suited up’ in my home environment, I feel like an alien has landed or like I’m looking at another human being, with a different life to the one I’ve got.
For whatever reason (and DM assures me NO cruelty!), Arch has been ‘bovvered’ by my being away this time. He’s been spooked by horses and all sorts apparently. When I got home, he was a bit clingy so I reckon that assuming the weather holds tomorrow, it’s time for him to get himself some fun with his Mum – I’m going to make sure we take him out somewhere really nice. Somewhere that he can spend time with me and I can find my own ‘real’ face and make sure it’s staring back at me from the mirror……
last year, my man was remembering an ancient battle!
