A good morning (or study of a sash window)
I know I’m posting this at the wrong time of day, but I ran out of time to schedule it last night. So just pretend it’s morning time, OK? For me?
A few days ago I was distracted from putting my make up on by the beautiful morning light. Always happy for an excuse to play with the new camera, I grabbed it and spent a few minutes playing around with the brilliant touch-screen-auto-focus-thingumy and marvelling at the beauty of the world before remembering that light won’t make me beautiful (but mascara might) and getting back to the business in hand. It was only once I downloaded the photos I noticed quite how much peeling paint there is on my window frame; this classic Edinburgh tenement flat with its sash windows, high ceilings and wooden floorboards might be lovely, but it is a little crumbly around the edges. I still love it though, so let’s just say it all adds to the charm!
PS. I was slightly inspired by this photo-a-day challenge (some of them just seem like nice ideas of things to photograph) but I have clearly spent far too much of January lying around feeling sorry for my shingley self to take a photo a day. I reckon these shots could cover numbers 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23 and 28 though, unless that’s cheating?!
Completely unrelated, but just thought I’d say happy Burns Night day (if that makes grammatical sense?!). I am only a quarter Scottish so decided the best thing to do was to have Scottish porridge oats for breakfast and forego the haggis!
I think the peeling paint definitely adds to the charm. It’s funny how sometimes a rustic or slightly dilapidated place can look so romantic in photos, but when you are actually standing in such a place—it doesn’t actually feel romantic and you just want to fix it up.
I definitely like this photo-a-day idea. You should post your pictures on Tumblr and then I will reblog them.