Mono Monday : : Low Key

Sorry...I'm afraid it's another picture of me. This isn't the easiest time for taking a portrait in any key, and it is so light in our house that it is difficult to find a low key spot. I took a few pictures of John, but he didn't really like it so I didn't get anything good. I  didn't much want to do another selfie, but under current circumstances, there were no other candidates. 

It's been a typical spring day...pouring rain one minute, sunshine the next. Fluffy white cumulus clouds one minute, dark brooding ones followed by rain the next. I met a friend at the park so that she could give me a jar of Marmite. She said the minimum order on Amazon was three jars and she figured it would take her years to get through just one. We sat on opposite ends of a bench and watched the activity...avian and human. Even the birds *seemed to be wearing face masks of sorts....

I've been listening to a wonderful podcast called The Fall of Civilizations with Paul Cooper, a historian and quite a good story teller. He looks into lost civilizations and the reasons for their collapse. It's fascinating, but also a lesson on how much history repeats itself and how humans react to various scenarios resulting from climate change, war and revolution and, yes, diseases which eliminated whole populations. It makes me feel that I am living through a pretty dystopian period now, and reminds me again of what I have said so often before...there is no such thing as 'normal' 

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