Just Jeans

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: 

the most spectacular, the most practical, 

the most relaxed and nonchalant. 

They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity

- all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves Saint Laurent

Someone said

"Denim is a way of life"

and to be frank, it's my

go-to nearly every day.

Nothing else says comfort and ease

(and who doesn't love all the pockets!) 

Just sportin' an old comfy pair on this

Superbowl Sunday while I zip around

getting chores done. 

If you're into the game, 

I hope your team wins! 

Denim Jacket

I can remember seeing this denim jacket in the Spiegel catalog back -- way back -- probably the late 80's (if my judgment of the shoulder pads era is correct! haha).  It was "love at first sight" -- there was nothing to dislike about the lines of this jacket.  It had matching pants as well.  And I ordered it.  Wore it often -- until I outgrew it.  But I kept it.  Part of that "some day I'll wear this" thinking.

I moved this jacket with me from Calif to Ohio to Arizona ... and today when I was cleaning out, I slipped it on and ... this is a first ... its technically too big for me now!  While that makes me overjoyed, I'm also ticked off with myself.  I could have been wearing this as a jacket through our 'winter' here -
and looking good!

I admit, I didn't have the heart to put it in the Goodwill bag.  I am going to try and take a couple of seams in....  :)

Solitude

We live in a very tense society.  

We are pulled apart... 

and we all need to learn 

how to pull ourselves together.... 

I think that at least part of the answer 

lies in solitude.  

~Helen Hayes

 

Some days,

there is quiet solitude

in a good book,

taking my portraits,

or just pulling up a chair

to sit and watch the day.