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Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I wish you peace and love, good health and happiness, now and in the year ahead. Thank you for your support; and thank you even more for your friendship. I'll catch up with your streams when I return from holidays. Till then, take care,
XpatScot

And just for fun, here's what happened when:
Lord Byron came to my house

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These older Australians had just attended a matinee performance at the Sydney Opera House and presumably were making their way to the transport hub where they would find trains and buses and ferries waiting to carry them home.

I had spent the afternoon alone in the city, trying to find subjects to photograph, but with little success. I was tired, feeling somewhat despondent, so I stopped at an outdoor café before heading home.

It was late afternoon and the sun was already low, its rays reflecting off the windows of the tall building behind me and creating little spotlights on the street ahead. And it was in one of those random spotlights that I caught this scene; just a simple gesture that, at that precise moment, for some reason struck me as particularly poignant. But then, sometimes, the eye sees what the heart feels.

Back from the dead

Va, pensiero

Thank you for the kind comments and enquiries on my last upload. Yes, I am still around; just not taking so many photographs these days. Hence the need to dip into the archives yet again.

And here's the story behind the image: The White Van