D and I took 3 days off last week, we were home most of the time, just hanging out, catching up with each other, resting, getting a few jobs done and satisfying our cravings for good food. We basically spent 5 days, including the weekend, feasting! Far too busy gorging ourselves to take many pictures, just this one - a selection of tasty cheeses, olives, focaccia, butter and coffee. There were also a couple of roasts, and a whole lot of cake.
I mentioned here how much I love a pebble, a rock, a stone. I love to feel the surface, to hold them in my hands feeling the knobbles and bobbles, the dips and dents. I love to hold them against my face to press the cold stone against my cheek. I admire their colours, the muted tones that seep from their skin, I wonder what's inside, how they'd look to be smashed open revealing their core, might they sparkle and shine, I want to know, but I dare not smash that perfect exterior.
From this beach.
One of the reasons we were so keen to visit Charleston here was the Rob Ryan exhibition being held there. D and I have been fans of Rob for years now, we've some of his prints from back when they were much, much cheaper. I was really keen to see his Staffordshire cats and dogs. I'd seen them online before but not in the flesh and they looked too beautiful to pass on. Indeed they were, often embellished with rich mirror-like gold they really are charming, all decorated in Rob's unique style and yet each pair so unique in themselves. Shame I couldn't do them justice in my photographs.
