Leaden skies today drained the colour from me and the morning. I remember once seeing an illustrated alphabet in which the letter E, for Ennui, was depicted by a monochrome drawing of the exterior of a brooding mansion in which the pale face of a child, silhouetted against the dark interior of an upstairs room, could be seen staring out at the grey day that stretched out before him. As June reneges on its summer promises I’m trying not to be that person. I shall illuminate the day by drawing colour out of the the lusciousness of sun ripened summer fruits, add warmth with the heat of bright red chillies and replace the missing scents of summer with the perfume of baking. Over my shoulder, out of the corner of my eye, I can sense that the day is lightening.
Roger Stowell Photography
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Drawing with a hundreds and thousands pencil ought to put a smile on the sun… 😉
It worked for a bit:)
Make every day a baking day!
Good thinking:)
Always look for the one small thing that can brighten your day.
It can be quite small:)
Your last sentence suggests that you’ve managed to improve the day, in your mind’s eye if not reality. Baking is always a good way to replace something that’s missing, but I hope your summer returns soon.
Fingers crossed:)
Beautiful words – you’ve brightened my day! Thank you.
And you mine with that kind comment – thank you:)
Cake again 🙂
Gotta get out of this cake thing.
😀
“N is for Neville who died of ennui.” I simply love Edward Gorey! And am happy to know you’re someone else who does too.
I was desperately trying to remember the name of the cartoonist – I kept thinking of John Glashan, but his drawing is so different from my memory of Neville at the window. Thanks for jogging my memory:)
Bake away that ennui! Spring’s promise shall not be broken, just somewhat delayed …
Summer trying to imitate an English train time table:)
Once the weather warms, a day in June like the one you describe is like opening a Christmas gift to find socks.
I hope I never get as used to awful, grey June days as I am to receiving socks at Christmas:)
Love this post and what a great image! Did you create that?? LA = June gloom.
Thanks for that, Marina, and yes, I did create the picture. I can’t believe that even LA is in gloom.
A born writer such as you surely can lose oneself in the printed pages authored by others . . .;) ?
I do, I do – I spend a lot of time turning the pages of others. Lifeblood.
Now that photo.. it’s quite the photo, I loved it.. and my grey day in June is considerably improved.. I might even go for a bike ride;)
Not bikes again….I’m exhausted from reading your post:)
Can we have a photo of what you baked? Hope the chilli wasn’t in the cake
And how on earth did you create that picture? It’s amazing!
What I baked got eaten – very good brownies. The picture is part of what I do. I teach Photoshop and that’s one of the things that Photoshop can do 🙂
So glad the day brightened. Let us hope Summer keeps its promises, Roger.
I’m not confident, Kate, but I’ve decided not to wear socks as a gesture towards to imaginary warm weather. It’s resulted in cold feet and people moving away from me in railway carriages:)
What a great idea! It’s been raining and miserable here as well.
Where hasn’t it, Fran? I guess we’ll be complaining it’s too hot by August:)
Right you are 🙂
We have had leaden and wet days for more than a week so I thoroughly enjoyed your little bit of color…lovely work, Roger.
It seems to be a bad summer in the West, that’s for sure.