Summertime

From that brief but glorious time last weekend when it seemed like the sun might actually have finally arrived.

Carrapateira, aka Wonderland

It's been a couple of weeks since I returned from a trip to Portugal and I'm still daydreaming about this lovely land. The photographs below are from a week my family and I spent near Carrapateira in the Algarve. Our tiny hamlet, Vilarinha, consisted of six or so houses, all beautifully renovated.

Leedale Junior

The scramble down to the local beach.

 Jessica catches the breeze.

Holiday essentials.

 Late night iPadding.

Vilarinha

 A day trip to nearby Lagos.

Selfie pulling superweird face.

 Leedale senior.

 Nom.

Coming up next...ABANDONED VILLAS!

Dreaming of summer

A few weeks before Christmas I found five French children's books in a box saying 'please take' on the street.  They are not really textbooks, more the 'funformation' sort of books my grandmother used to give my brother and I for Christmas. Anyway, they have brilliantly 80s illustrations and I have scanned some of them to make digital collages. Here's the first. Creamy blue and sunshine yellow, a somersaulting girl and a wave of sound, bound by a neuron. It reminds me of a photo I took years and years ago on the shores of Lake Geneva, which I don't have a scan of but did describe on an old blog: here.