random summer shots

someone not only visited Marks and Spencers, they brought along these...and were they ever wonderful... I could get used to them in Ukr, we call this 'shashlyky'; a pleasant surprise to find this on the lunch menu one afternoon in France! Hot off the grill...
and the point of this pic???? I think it was the grill... hmmmm

inside the house was this piano. We became great friends in very short order. It was fantastic. I totally monopolized it and could have stayed all night... (this is significant because playing piano is more for my nerves and relaxation... it won't do for you what it does for me... which is why they're glad I didn't stay all night)

this was an instrument from (Nepal? I think that's it). Makes a ringing sound, similar to running a moist finger around the rim of a crystal goblet but lower in pitch...

this kid was cute to nth degree. and this evening, she chose to wear a frond wreath of some sort... oh- and she smiled! (at the time, I even knew her name)

it's amazing who you run into... I was there, fyi, when they were 'getting to know each other'... back in the day... now they're old married folks... amazing...

and one more kid shot. She was great! And she can carry on a 5 person conversation, complete with gestures and facial expressions... all by herself. (and I used to know her name, too...)