Sometimes pictures tell hidden messages like treasure maps. Have you ever been in a situation where a good friend showed you a holiday snap, a picture full of friends and family, or of a landscape near their home? Your friend’s face lit up and she smiled as she recounted happy memories. You smile back because you understand that the picture in front of you, full of unfamiliar faces with red eyes and deer-in-the-headlight look, is a clue. A clue for your friend to recount wonderful times in her mind and the happiness she felt at that moment.
I won’t show you a bunch of smiling people that you don’t know, but the badly taken picture below (damn, that 10 sec timer!) is not just of me watering a bunch of plants… with dirty feet (sorry!).
Every object reminds me of happy moments: the watercolor painting from a tiny gallery near Wanchai market, the old chest of drawers from Shanghai, subtropical creepers winding their way up into lush canopies, watering plants in the garden, wearing a sarong, not wearing a sarong…
To see other sarong wearers with happy memories visit Lecram’s site and of course Os’s (just discovered that your site is blocked in Dubai, Os).
I love that sarong.
And the picture is great – damned 10 second timer and all.
At least the plants are naked.
Comment by Tricia — September 17, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
You wear it well! I’ll have to catch up over here. It’s been awhile…
Interesting about Dubai. I wonder if anyone there would pay big bucks to me to drop HNT!
Comment by Osbasso — September 17, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
I don’t think it’s a bad picture. That’s a pretty sarong. =o)
Comment by Amorous Rocker — September 17, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
it’s such a pretty picture, so natural. love that it gives you happy memories.
Comment by lime — September 17, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
I like the pic. Very simple and love the bit of lighting coming in. :)
Comment by Vixen — September 17, 2009 @ 11:44 pm
Great pic.
Rockin the sarong!
Comment by Sage — September 18, 2009 @ 9:55 am
i think its a great pic :)
HHNT
Comment by Jobthingy — September 18, 2009 @ 10:07 am
Censorship in Dubai? I’m shocked. Nice picture. I think you may have taken this picture with the automatic setting. Try using the landscape or portrait setting.
Comment by WE'RE DOOMED — September 18, 2009 @ 10:26 am
very colorful sarong, nice print.
HHNT!
Comment by amber — September 18, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
it is all how we see things, everything is subjective. it all depends on what matters to us, but i can tell you this–i love sarongs as well. they make me feel happy!
Novel
Comment by Novel Nymph — October 2, 2009 @ 10:34 am