autumn colour week: red

Red! It’s my favourite colour, as anyone who knows me well will tell you. This is the last post for colour week – it’s been such fun. I had a hard time choosing red images for you, because there were so many. But, sticking to the Europe-in-autumn theme, here they are:

This, again, is from Galway – part of the university there, where Colton was studying abroad for a semester. I know I’ve been talking about Ireland all week, but I can’t help it. It’s been on my mind.

Back in Oxford, here we are at All Souls College – where these beauties were just begging to be photographed against the quad wall.

Here’s the front of St John’s, in all its scarlet autumn glory. I loved this sight and was so sad when the leaves eventually turned brown.

Yet another of my favourite haunts in Oxford – the Jericho Cafe, on Walton Street. They do a wonderful homemade raspberry flapjack, and I’ve stopped here for many a cup of tea to warm my insides and an hour of quiet to soothe my soul.

This is my friend Nathan – one of my dungeon guys, known fondly to one and all as “Pickle,” his surname. I heard music coming from the back garden that afternoon and wandered out to investigate. He was just “abiding” – a favourite dungeon pastime, which means just being where you are, soaking it in. (We called the dungeon the “Abode of Abide” that semester.) Anyway, his fingers made magic on the guitar that afternoon, as I sat and sipped my tea and listened. And abided.

This photo was taken in April, not autumn – but it’s Jacque and me, in our red coats, in Paris, and I LOVE it.

Finally, here I am in St John’s gardens – yes, this is a self-portrait. The jeans are my old, worn-in traveling pants, and the pashmina is an Oxford one (of course). What a wonderful day.

Happy weekend to you.

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