Really proud!

 

One posting leads to another!
I'm sure I am wearing those same boots about 16 years ago.

I LOVE THIS PHOTO!

I am clutching a stick used as an arm extension and support and in the other hand probably a sprig of thyme for the cooking pot as we were camping! 

I think even that stone had been used to carry my weight!

I still own the clothing, the top has faded and the shorts are a bit tight!

I had just climbed up and crawled down a dead volcanic 'mountain' in the Auvergne region. 

It had been a major achievement whilst I was recuperating from fibromyalgia. 

My dear friend had patiently re-trained me, as he said he would, to walk again.  I owe him much!  

I know this is a favourite pic of his... and I know he covets it... 

In June 2011 ( ah.. a first anniversary gift of our separation whish I did not wish for)
he sent me a copy which he had taken with his Nickon digital camera.
I don't know why he send it. Maybe it reminded him, like me, of fond times.
I am sure I had a framed version of this but I didn't find it when I sorted photos in the Autumn!
I know I have the original print which was taken with my Canon analogue camera bought so that I could take it to Sri Lanka, the only long distance haul I have ever made. 

It was point and shoot and I bought long lenses for it. I still have it and wondered about taking it out from the attic and re-mastering it! Film of course! 

I am becoming wistful that I would like to travel. I thought I didn't wish to go to S.E. Asia but now I have seen photos of Luang Prabang and the Mekon River I must say that I am slightly jealous of my former partner travelling on a boot string currently in Laos!