Life is beautiful. Not glamorous. Glamorous magazines want us to look at all the perfectness, want more, want that. Want there.
We can buy some things from the magazine, but we can never buy it all. Neither do the people in the pictures or the ones making the pictures have it all. Magazines, adds, they sometimes make us discontented with out lives. Except my grandmother. In her own words ‘I just love to look at all the pretty things’.
I will most likely never be as good as she is.
Yesterday I was reminded again how life is beautiful, how we don’t have to have the perfect-picture life.
We went on a walk with my family in the Flemish Ardennes.
It was cold and rainy and I forgot my coat. I nearly threw a fit and purposed to sit in the car all day. But my mom had extra sweaters with her, because she’s a mom. Moreover, she is my mom.
Then I decided that I never ever wanted to go for a walk again, because I had to go to the bathroom. And there was none. Of course I could go into the hotel we were parked at and ask, but SERIOUSLY. Do you think I will go inside, ask people I don’t know, in a language I don’t know, if I can use their bathroom?
No I shall not.
I tiptoed behind my sisters who are braver (or more desparate?)?and we could all go on with our lives afterwards.
The walk was gorgeous. Taking pictuers in fall is really cheating, or it’s for amateurs, because just about every picture is pretty. God made fall so that we wouldn’t mind saying goodbye to summer so much.Behold my very proffesional pictures. They are better then my dads. (just work with me here. Just say it is so)
I just showed your pictures to my granddaughter, and she said you are an expert picture artist!
Haha 🙂 Tell her thanks, but Autumn did it all 😉
I love all of your pictures!! Living in Southern California, we never see such things. Now I want to be “there” and I’m not even reading a magazine! I will tell myself that all these dry hills that we have to look at and are worth it because it’s always sunny! (Almost.)
Beautiful. I love the leaf in mid-air, the colors, the baby cheeks… and yes, absolutely better than your dad’s. 😉
Thanks for complying so sweetly, although you have never seen my dad’s. Your faith is reasuring 😉 😉
My younger sister totally threw that leaf in front of the camera. I tried to catch the leaves falling but they were too quick for me 🙂
The baby was and is, always, just delightful. Especially when I am wearing him. So snuggly and completely content to just be right there up close to me. Safe. 🙂