It's a quiet morning here on Windsor Road- G is in Poland for the weekend, Nelly's asleep in the sun, Z's doing child care at the early service, and I'm sitting in my living room surrounded by towels. :) Yes, towels- personalized towels, which look very nice and I'll be photographing them this week for a new client who was referred to me by my star client Claire at Breckland Orchard. Do a google search for Breckland Orchard and check out her website. :) We've been needing to do another photo shoot, and I managed to book it for this afternoon which is great as I wouldn't have been able to get it done for another 2 weeks at least- we need to get some shots while it's still summery and green outside. When I woke up this morning I realised that although it's more subtle here, the trees are just starting to get that tired late summer look. In Michigan it happens like the first week of September, the trees start to look, well, sleepy. And you know that fall is fast approaching, like a train. But here, it's very subtle- just a leaf or 2 on the birch tree outside our house have turned slightly yellow. Fall here takes a long time, it's more like a turtle than a train- slow and steady wins the race. :) Oh and by the way, they don't call it fall here- they always call it Autumn. But I keep on calling it fall because I like fall better. :)
Have I gotten everything from the to do list done? No. :) But I like to set a high bar and see if I can reach it- that's my style. :) And besides, it's only 11am here, and there are 8 working hours left in the day! After working really hard Friday I did go shopping yesterday for a few hours, and watched a movie for a little while in the evening while some other tasks were running in the background- it was nice to have some chill out time. There's nothing like a warm British wool blanket- they are the warmest blankets ever, and I don't know why we don't get some in Michigan because we could all use one on our beds in the winter!
This week I have quite a bit going on- the towel shoot to sort out, a portrait shoot for a person who does Martial Arts, my various tutoring gigs, and the 2 groups that are out at Anglesey this term. Then away for a week to Germany, and then spending a week in the UK with Hope, and a week after that and Helen and Robin come to visit for a few days! I love the fall because it's the best time to travel so we get to see loads of people coming to visit. :) Our Shanghai trip is finally booked for Nov 14-26. I've already fielded a few questions about Christmas- we will likely stay here for Christmas Day to help with the international events around that time (it's always short staffed because everyone goes off for Christmas) and I'm going to head back for a week or 2 but G might stay here because he has a Stateside meeting in January already because he's on the committee of a conference for his field, so once he knows when that is he can schedule a visit to MI as a part of it. The conference is really exciting- I'm so proud of him for being on the committee, it's quite an exciting thing to be asked to do, because they don't just ask anyone and you have to review the hundreds of papers that people submit. It will get him some excellent exposure, and shows him to be the expert in his field that we all already know that he is. :)
I have to leave in about an hour to go meet my client for this shoot- we're having lunch as well. She's turned out to be a real friend to me, and I hope I'll have the opportunity to share the good news with her. So pr for C and her family. Also, I know many of you have been pring for U, my coworker from Wales- please keep lifting him up as his situation remains difficult at home, but the Father has been answering prs and U is asking more questions about Gd.
I might be switching blog providers here soon- blogger is making it very difficult for me to post photos up (ridiculously difficult actually) which is why there aren't many photos up! Wordpress has a better photo system, so I might migrate over once I have the time. :)
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