I'm watching a glorious sky, changing colour by the minute as the last of the light slips away: washes of orange fading along the horizon as above the baby blue sky turns to sapphire. What a beautiful day.
So, the weather this week has been great: summer clothes reappeared, and people in general seemed to savour the days of warmth, bathed in autumnal, almost rose-gold sunlight. But the quintessential moment was this afternoon: I was headed towards a busy Fields Supermarket, and the area is all lorries reversing in to the loading bay, and cars double parking, and piled-high trollies being heaved along... and in the midst of it all is a boy in shorts and t-shirt, intently focused on a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone. He's about half-way through eating, but it's melting fast in the heat, and life as he knows it, the entire charted universe for this boy has narrowed to that cone, to the drippy green ice cream that's trying to escape his predatory attentions. And he's loving the totality of existence.
It brought a smile. And he made it safely through the trucks and cars and trollies, which was also good.
Off to watch the first stars come out. Have a fabulous weekend, all.
:-)
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I don't think I had ever seen that - priceless!
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