caught up in another photograph I found.
- Jamie Cullum
Had a great weekend with my oldest and dearest friend Robin. She lives in Florida with her husband and three kids (who I have to thank for letting me have her all weekend!), but hitched a ride back up to Ohio with her dad on Thursday to spend the weekend with me. They arrived in time for dinner and she flew home Sunday.
Oddly enough, we’ve both developed an interest in photography since we’ve lived apart. In fact, Robin has started up a photo biz in Ft Myers, specializing in shooting kids. She does nice work, which you can see here (www.robincornett.com). We spent a good bit of Friday hanging out behind our camera lenses – until my camera decided to conk out on me. Eventually we worked our way over to a camera shop where we determined it was just the battery. Usually when I have a dead battery, it simply wont take a picture. But this time, just to be weird, it died mid picture with the shutter wide open and blinked error messages at me – even when I turned it off altogether. But it did give me the chance to play with Robin’s digital, which (the film snob in me has to admit) pretty much rocks. I am not a fan of butterflies (anything with wings, for that matter), but when you’re not worried about wasting film, trying to get a good shot of one is a fun challenge. I got a few and threw away about a million. Robin posted our whole day (and labeled who did what) on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/littler_chicken/
We had dinner Friday at the Dilly Deli and then headed to the movie theater in Mariemont Square to see The Bourne Ultimatum. Unfortunately, Paul Greengrass thought it would be cool to shoot with a handheld camera while chasing Matt Damon all over Europe…Robin thinks that’s enough to make a person sick, so we bailed mid movie. I’m guessing it had a mostly happy ending, but I’ll wait until it comes out on DVD to find out. We ended up sitting outside of Starbucks for a while, enjoying the music of one of Dilly Deli’s musicians. The weather was perfect – cool with a nice breeze. (of course it’s supposed to hit 90 again by the end of the week….so fall’s not here yet)
Saturday we had a pretty lazy start to the day, which was nice. We had a leisurely breakfast at First Watch and ended up at a fabric store… How do I make this a short story? She has (and I ordered) a really nice camera bag that has an interchangeable cover. You can order a bunch of covers online for $40-$70. Or you can make your own. For much less. Which we did. And I confess…I sort of want to make one for every day of the week.
We hosted my parents and her dad for dinner Saturday night – made (what Robin called scrumptious) pork with apples and roasted red potatoes with fresh lavender and rosemary from my cousin Kelly’s garden in Seattle. Robin and I cant get together without making chocolate chip cookies, so that was dessert.
Then I took her to the airport Sunday morning so USA 3000 could deliver her back to her husband and kids. It was wonderful to have her here.
