A Lifetime Ago

LL

Time for a wee (my Scots roots still surface occasionally!) update.

Off to Orlando over the weekend as we have a VIP invitation to the Invictus Games. Remember when we were there? Not my scene at all, as you will recall - at least, not the amusement parks. The rest was OK. Then the drive back and hitting that truly great downpour as we drove toward FM. Seems an age, and a lifetime, away now, as does our first trip to Italy.

Talking of which the next move on our part is to Europe for the start of our summer sojourn in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and a couple of other places. For you, it seems Spain beckons again at the end of the month. We might even cross paths, although we are rarely found in the main terminal building these days, due to using our own aircraft.

I suppose I am not surprised by your behavior at the end of the day. The unfaithfulness, the theft etc. With the benefit of having recovered from my bereavement pretty much fully by the end of 2006 - no thanks to you, of course - it enabled me to see you for what you are and were. No need for me to expatiate on that any further as you know how you are, what you are and 'who' you are.

Life allows us choices, thank goodness, but the destiny contained in those choices has to be sought out. It doesn't land in your lap. I was always and am one of those people that makes things happen. If you want something enough you have to go out and get it. That applied to my life before and since. It was your good/bad luck to catch me when I was at the lowest point I have ever been in my life. You never knew the 'real' me, at all. I was just a shadow of my normal being, back then.

They were the downsides, I guess - you, your 'playing away', lies and theft. The upside was that having discovered your infidelity, I felt 'free', so to speak, and met some lovely women over a period of nearly 3 years. So, while it's hard to forgive you for all the things you did, the cowardice etc; I have to thank you for the pleasure you brought me, unintentionally, in the company of all those ladies. Most of all I doubt whether I would have met A, if it had not been for your actions.

Yes, I did love you...then, and you still occupy a corner of my heart, but.....

You 'lost'. I guess you have that all figured out now. The security, the material things and all. My grandchildren, the dog you always wanted and a private jet. Most of all a loving husband, if you had wanted that. You lost the lot entirely through your actions, decisions and lack of understanding.

So Orlando it is for us. Being there this weekend thru Tuesday will stir a few memories, but only a few.

In the meantime here are a few photos that are not all about the beauty of the naked female form :) Women figure in some though - some personal, some for clients.


The first two are personal, but that doesn't take too much imagination...;-)

This lady really took to Ben so she let me take her photo.

Part of a fashion shoot for Ash

Diamonds really are forever...in this case

Another very personal shot..Paris enjoying the view. Both of us!

USA.... enjoying the view

Northern Italy

USA

And finally, is this a just a client shot or.....

Ciao - 'have a nice day lady', as the man once said. Me, I'm about to 'Sail on a summer breeze'