A Garden Walk
From a walk with my mother at the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific in 2017.
Converted from colour film to black and white – another image from the same spot can be found here.
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Olympus XA2, Fuji Superia 200, converted in Lightroom
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burnt embers 
She looks so happy and content 🙂
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Thank you Julie – I agree. Gardens are one of her places – the garden at home is wonderful and she still putters in it when the weather is good.
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I totally understand about pottering in gardens .. I’m an addict 🙂
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The hands! They look very capable.
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She has been a potter and a quilter, mother of five, as well as being a distinguished art historian/ mediaevalist.
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I think the hands are a result of wrangling kids, and then wrestling with the lives of saints, trying to wring some historical sense out of them.
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Thanks Lynn. Funny how her hands stand out in this photo more than others I have taken.
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What a portrait, that smile.and those hands…so much living.
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Thank you Sherry. We have such nice walks in this garden!
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You can see she’s not going to let any ne’er do well grab her bag!
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Hi Mario – that’s a vice-like grip for sure.
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