Photo-A-Day Challenge #19
A Normal Week of Shtuff.
This year’s rainy season is illuminating to me. Never have I noticed, until now, the tricks that Zeus plays on us, making us think the sky is falling with face stinging, torrential rainfall. In reality, the gods, on their chauffeured clouds, ride above us, in sun-soaked skies — leaving us mortals wet.
The silver lining in this weather is Bangkok’s decline of daily Covid infected. Authorities are now easing the lockdown. I hope the decline continues.
Monday we got lucky and drove around during a lull in the rainfall. We still don’t go out much, especially since most shops have been closed for months.
The air around the city was moist and cooler than usual, adding to the pleasure of our tiny adventure. Another pleasure was the dark shadows everywhere thanks to the dim, gray sky. While waiting at a stop light, camera at the ready, I caught this shot of the BTS train making the bend.
Nong and I have coffee together every morning. Today we had a special treat of moon cake, a Chinese mid-autumn festival cake to pay respect to the moon. But this was no ordinary moon cake. This was durian moon cake.
The durian smell was light, too bad. And, to my surprise, it went well with black coffee. I saved my last piece for this shot. The directional light moved me.
The big event of the day for us was preparing and enjoying a locally roasted coffee that we’ve not had in a while. I enjoy manipulating coffee to extract its flavors to our liking by adjusting the grind, water temperature and volume, brew time, even the pour and cooling in the cup. This image is our moka pot building pressure, ready to blow its top like a locomotive whistle. A sweet sound.
Today we dared go out again. Well, we needed groceries for tomorrow’s dinner. We’re making something special.
We drove through a part of town where buildings look like fancy computer towers — especially the one on the right. It’s actually called the digital building.
Today’s dinner is one of our favorite Japanese dishes — Okonomiyaki. A large pancake made mostly of shredded cabbage. It comes in a kit with all the dry ingredients.
The weekend is when we normally eat sweets and pastries. The house rule is if we can reasonably make it ourselves, then we do. In this image, Nong is making raisin scones on a black, glass surface.
Sunday evening was gorgeous. The sunset filled the sky with colors. We stood on the balcony until the light faded to dark blue. A beautiful end of a week.
Thanks for joining me this week.
Special thanks to Dennett for putting this challenge together and the following photographic story tellers:
Erika Burkhalter / Eileen Vorbach Collins / Anne Bonfert / Sasha Meyer / Tracy Aston / Lisa Bolin / Juan O. Aguilera / David Wade Chambers / June Nguyen / Mia Verita / Susan Alison / LensAfield / Barbara Radisavljevic / Diana Lotti / Barbara Dalton / Kim Zuch / K. Barrett / Sandra Barrett / Shruthi Sundaram.
