Photo Challenge - Day Four



Photo Challenge - Day Three

Photo Challenge - Day Two

Photo Challenge - Day One

Wistful, tired luxurious moments of hungover consciousness. Cold walk with friends peppered with yummy mulled wine and loud laughs. Cosy, cuddled-up comfort on a sofa concluded with a hair-shaking solo dance party.

Week Eleven: Day Seven - Thursday

Fulfilling challenges

I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle.

-Alice / Alice in Wonderland

Week Eleven: Day Six - Wednesday

That my job takes me to some pretty special places:

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato 

Week Eleven: Day Five - Tuesday

I don't know if you can see 

The changes that have come over me

In these last few days I've been afraid

That I might drift away

So I've been telling old stories, singing songs

That make me think about where I came from

And that's the reason why I seem

So far away today

Oh, but let me tell you that I love you

That I think about you all the time

Caledonia you're calling me

And now I'm going home

If I should become a stranger

You know that it would make me more than sad

Caledonia's been everything

I've ever had

Now I have moved and I've kept on moving

Proved the points that I needed proving

Lost the friends that I needed losing

Found others on the way

I have kissed the ladies and left them crying

Stolen dreams, yes there's no denying

I have traveled hard with coattails flying

Somewhere in the wind

Oh, but let me tell you that I love you

That I think about you all the time

Caledonia you're calling me

And now I'm going home

If I should become a stranger

You know that it would make me more than sad

Caledonia's been everything

I've ever had

Now I'm sitting here before the fire

The empty room, the forest choir

The flames that could not get any higher

They've withered now they've gone

But I'm steady thinking my way is clear

And I know what I will do tomorrow

When the hands are shaken and the kisses flow

Then I will disappear

- Caledonia, Dougie MacLean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOzPQBMGIVM

Week Eleven: Day Four - Monday

The haunting and perfect full moon in the sky as I walked to work this morning.

Week Eleven: Day Three - Sunday

The little girl on the 344 who played peek-a-boo with me for 15 minutes, then laughed outrageously for 5 minutes which, in turn, made me laugh. She waved goodbye to me as she got off the bus and her innocent joy made my heart happy.

Week Eleven: Day Two - Saturday

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

-Edgar Allen Poe

Week Eleven: Day One-Friday

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell.

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to fear from man or beast.

How should we like it were the stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am 

Of stars that do not give a damn.

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were the stars to disappear or die

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel it's total darkness sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.

- W.H. Auden 

Week Ten:

1) Apparently there are people who engage in 'Practice Kissing' sessions on park benches. The rule is to only touch with your lips...undeniably romantic.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdJjvWIlJg
3) The Gloaming...

4) The Anticipation of Snow 

5) Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. - Judith Butler

6) A decisive man

7) First Base:

Week Nine

1) The kindness of friends old and new, I speak of you Mr. OK and of you Miss LJ. 

Thank you.

2) Realizing, once again, that I need no-one else to have amazing adventures. 

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exFokKr-WEg
4) My laugh. It is outrageous & loud and perhaps embarrassing for my companions, 

but, by god, it is hearty and true.

5) A perfectly boiled egg.

6) The Coat

I made my song a coat

Covered with embroideries

Out of old mythologies

From heel to throat;

But the fools caught it,

Wore it in the world's eyes

As though they'd wrought it.

Song, let them take it,

For there's more enterprise

In walking naked.

- William Butler Yeats

7) My room at Mum & Dad's: safest place in my world. 

Week Eight

1) My special balsamic, over-roasted pumpkin seeds.

2) The moment just before a film starts.

3) That very rare but very wonderful stomach flip thing.

4)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpnhX8zQDAM

5) That I have been fortunate enough to live in Blairs, Nice, Boston-MA, Glasgow, San Francisco, Cape Town, Edinburgh and London.

6) 'You were once Wild here. Don't let them Tame you'. - Isadora Duncan

7) Wearing facepaint: