Roll #15

Day 286. Wed 11th May. “Duomo in Florence”. Roll #15. Shutter setting still on Bulb, so the photo of the folk sitting in front of the Duomo are all over-exposed. Worse still, I took two rolls of film between Roll#14 and #15 and both came out horribly over-exposed with lots of shutter blur.
Anyway, I wrote the following, which made up for the photos.

A girl stood in the piazza
Santa Maria Novella behind
Her face to the sun
And her arms outstretched
She beamed with delight
As her friend took a photo.
Then an old beggar walked up
Shaking a can in her hand
And the Moment was lost.

I flew back to Perth on Wednesday night.

Day 287. Thur. 12th May. “Singapore Signage”. Took this photo of the Gate numbers as I transited through Singapore.

Day 288. Frid 13th May. “Bowl of Fruit”. Today was our wedding anniversary and we had booked a long weekend down at Margaret River. We stayed at LaForet Enchante, which is a delightful cottage on the banks of the Margaret River. I took this photo of the giant bowl of fruit on the dining room table.

Day 289. Sat 14th May. “Janet in the tub”. LaForet has recently installed an outdoor bath on the veranda of the cottage and we took full advantage of the tub. I snapped this photo of Janet as she sipped Champers in the tub.

Day 290. Sun 15th May. “Vineyards”. We had lunch at Cullen’s on the Sunday and I took this photo of the vines just before we left.

Day 291. Mon 16th May. “New Old Camera”. We found this beautiful camera in an antique shop in Margaret River. It’s a James A. Simpson plate film camera made in circa 1915-1918. It is still in working order and I plan to take some photos with the camera as soon as I can work out how to load some film into the cartridges.

Day 292. Tues 17th May. “New Stove stuff”. We are in the process of upgrading our kitchen and the new cooktop, oven and extractor hood arrived today.

Day 293. Wed 18th May. “Kitchen Bench”. A photo of our kitchen bench at home, cluttered with books, fruit bowls and general kitchen stuff.

Day 294. Thur 19th May. “Horse Sculpture @ home”. A busy week at work, so I had to resort to another photo of stuff at home. This time the red wooden horse in our sitting room.

Day 295. Friday 20th May. “Wine Club aftermath”. Wine club again. I took this photo of all the bottles at the end of the evening.

Day 296. Sat 21st May. “Steph’s housewarming” Our friend and Janet’s colleague, Steph moved into his new house in our street. He celebrated with a small house warming party. I took this photo after dinner, following the table theme of the last few nights.

Day 297. Sun 22nd May. “Ironing lady”. Janet decided to iron a whole pile of my shirts on the Sunday night. She hasn’t lifted an iron in anger for some time, so I thought it was worthy of a photo.

Day 298. Mon 23rd May. “Mannequin”. We bought a mannequin on the weekend. It’s main purpose is to hold Janet’s numerous pieces of jewelry. I took this photo of the mannequin in its new spot in our study.

Day 299. Tue 24th May. “Shoes”. Flew off to Melbourne today for our AGM. I didn’t get a chance to take a photo until I got back to the hotel room. Left with shooting my shoes. Desperate, I know.

Day 300. Wed 25th May. “Aboriginal Art”. The hotel where we stayed had an exhibition of Aboriginal art and I took this photo of a couple of pieces in the lobby.

Day 301. Thurs 26th May. “New Kitchen Top”. Our new kitchen top was installed today and to celebrate I took this photo of Janet, her thermomix and the marble bench top.

Day 302. Fri 27th May. “Janet and Artist”. We went to drinks at our friends Dorothy and Don. While there we met an interesting artist () and so I took this photo.

Day 303. Sat 28th May. “Janet again”. Somehow I have started a small series of photos of Janet. This one at home in front of the “Great To Do List of Life”.

Day 304. Sun 29th May. “Janet again, again”. A continuation of the mini series. She was kindly baking me a couple of cakes for my birthday.

Day 305. Mon 30th May. “My Birthday”. It was my birthday today. Janet took this photo of me with a glass of Champers and a sign saying “Rue Victor Hugo”. I’m kind of doing the Kilroy was here thing.

Day 306. Tues 31st May. “Photo on our Wall”. I took this photo of a photo I had taken of a mural on a wall in Venice Beach, CA. Art of Art of Art.

Day 307. Wed 1st June. “Evening meal”. Another home photo.

Day 308. Thur 2nd June. “Blam”. Another home photo. How many days to go? This one of a comic strip painting on one of our walls.