Vermont Interlude

I haven’t blogged for a while now. I blame it on the days being too short for the amount of stuff that I try to fit into them.

When we’re not at work, Mely and I been spending much of our time with the 15M movement, marching on demonstrations or in assemblies and social forums in Madrid’s plazas and parks, debating the latest injustices with the 15M Economics group or the indignados in our neighbourhood. And the summer holidays brought no respite… well, how would they? Every day brings a new reason to take to the streets. The powers that be haven’t stopped trampling over democracy and making the poor and middle classes pay for the greed and recklessness of the financial industry, so we haven’t stopped protesting!

I did enjoy a brief break; a late summer visit to the USA, spending time with family. My chief preoccupations were concerned with the combination of ice cream flavours I would have for dessert, or whether indeed I had room for two helpings of ice cream, thus easing the ice cream flavour decision-making process. My only regret was that Mely, who was starting work at a new job (with a full-time  contract!), couldn’t join us.

This photo is of the duck pond at the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont, taken after a brisk dip in the outdoor pool, on the way back to the cabin where grandparents were waiting with dinner and a warm fire with marshmallows to toast.  I took the pictures with my MiniDiana in half-frame mode, using Fuji Superia 200 film. The only digital manipulation was sticking them onto a black background in phototoshop.