Sun breaks and illusions

Rain for days and then today sudden slashes of fierce sun lighting up wet sidewalks and fallen leaves. Laurie's birthday, and I met her and Terri at a Cuban restaurant to celebrate with a late lunch. I had hoped to get a good portrait of her but didn't, so I give you the grocery store parking lot, our technicolor leaves, and these words from the riveting book I've nearly finished:

"All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer’s intent--exclude aspects of the moment’s complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time’s continuum" (Hold Still, by Sally Mann, p. 151).