A shot just after sunrise from the open bedroom window at 'home'. We were in the pool at 9 o'clock which is early for us. Not many people there: a nice quiet little toddler with his dad and two ladies who did more talking than swimming. "Why don't you go and have a cup of coffee?" is what I always want to say but, of course, I never do.
Last week our pool was closed for cleaning and we were able to use another one in the same chain of health clubs. It went fine, until I found myself in the gents' changing room afterwards (no sense of direction, even on foot). Only one chap in there, fully clothed, so no embarrassment.
And now we've had full English brunch, Ray's gone to tennis and I'll soon be off for a cut and colour. Tonight it's a concert with a piece each from Bach, Wagner, Corelli and Haydn - chamber (small) music - my favourite.
That's funny, I like vapour trails!! It was the same scenario when I put a couple of shots in for 'homework' for the photography workshop: the tutor thought I had 'cut off' the shots but I explained that that was how I wanted them to be! Guess it would be boring if we all liked the same....
I love chamber music too - particularly Bach, and I love Wagner but haven't heard it played by small groups. So funny about the changing room incident.
We thought beforehand perhaps the Wagner didn't sit so well in a programme of Bach, Haydn and Corelli but it was a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra called Siegfried Idyll, composed as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 1870 on the stairs of their villa and Cosima awoke to its opening melody. Not what I think of as Wagner's typical style.
December 2nd, 2013
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That's funny, I like vapour trails!! It was the same scenario when I put a couple of shots in for 'homework' for the photography workshop: the tutor thought I had 'cut off' the shots but I explained that that was how I wanted them to be! Guess it would be boring if we all liked the same....
We thought beforehand perhaps the Wagner didn't sit so well in a programme of Bach, Haydn and Corelli but it was a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra called Siegfried Idyll, composed as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 1870 on the stairs of their villa and Cosima awoke to its opening melody. Not what I think of as Wagner's typical style.