Walk in the park

After staying up on Thursday night to watch the election results coming
in, the lovely man and I have been having a quiet weekend. This photo
was taken when we went for a walk in my local park. It was a
gloriously sunny day. Why do weekends pass so quickly?

For What It's Worth

I've been and done it... There won't be any surprises in this area but
it still felt important to do it.
Now I'm off to prepare some food as the Duck and I are having a long
weekend. We shall eat and then watch the circus unfold tonight. Wish I
could feel excited at the prospect of election night but alas, it's so
hard to like politicians. I think of the qualities which make for a
good leader who will work for the good of the country and then I think
of the qualities which would make someone want the job and survive in
it. Alas, in my head, it's a different set of qualities so I'm not
optimistic that I'll like politicians and political leaders any better
in the future. Like many voters today, I can be much clearer about
what I don't want.
Happy election day people.

EDIT Due to nasty spam. I have turned on comment moderation. I thought I'd done it yesterday but forgot to save changes - Doh!

Bored

I wasn't out today or photographically inspired so you have a self-
portrait. Thanks to Sandy, I have been playing with a new colour
manipulating app, Mill Colour. Hope I haven't scared you too much!

EDIT: Due to someone who posts comments with nasty links, I have had to turn on comment moderation.

Life drawing

Tonight was a little adventure. In the centre of Glasgow, there is a
pub/club called the Flying Duck and on a Tuesday night they have a
life drawing session. It costs £4 which is very reasonable. I went
with friend and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I haven't had the opportunity
to do life drawing for years and I love it. The time flew by.

Pictured here is the model's chair at the break and below, you can see
one of my efforts.

I am still sticking to taking photos and processing them with my
iPhone. I'll do this for 14 days for no other reason than I said I
would. It's quite fun learning what I can do with it.

Time for bed now so night night.

Domestic catchup

Today has been a day of domestic chores. The image here is of a
domestic item. It's probably not that difficult to see what it is. I
just liked the shape and the shadows.
I will be feeding a friend this evening and then we're off to explore
a life drawing class held in a pub with a DJ and a bar. I love life
drawing and doing it with bar and DJ will be a novelty! I'll let you
know how I get on.

Bank holiday stroll

The lovely man and I went for a wander today as the sun was out and it
was rather a lovely afternoon. My first stop was the Shelter shop.
Stockbridge in Edinburgh has rather a good collection of second-hand
shops. I returned laden with bargains including a winter coat and a
warm jacket. I love second-hand shops.

Now it's coming to the sad time when I'll have to pack up and head
home again. Hope you've had as nice a weekend as I have.

Trip to the exhibition

It's been a lovely afternoon. We met our friend Penny and went to the
Diane Arbus exhibition at the Dean Gallery. Sleepyduck and I have seen
her work before, exhibited in Barcelona. If you live anywhere near
Edinburgh then I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

Afterwards we were treated to a lovely lunch. Thanks Penny. We also
met a lovely little wrinkled green chap who can be seen below.

These pictures form part of my series of blogs from my iPhone. I have
discovered a limit that I can only put the images after the text. This
was not an issue when I blogged from a Nokia. If anyone knows a way
round it other than editing the HTML after submitting the images then
I would be interested to hear from you.

I plan to blog from the phone for fourteen days and then think of
another theme.