One of the happy moments I would share with Rosemary by mid-November was getting two catalogues in the mail. One was the Lee Valley Christmas Catalogue. We would see what interesting stuff we could buy for our garden. The other was the Bits and Pieces  catalogue which had all kinds of items that we would get for our granddaughters (and have fun doing it) like good jig-saw puzzles.

Now I have no use for them. They have been on my kitchen centre table for a few days and I feel sad to throw them away. By keeping them perhaps those moments I share with Rosemary would come back. They will not but still I persist.

The cold, and dark rainy days that are with us I know will become cheerier with Christmas lights. But a family Christmas is not in the works. I have yet to figure out what I will do this Christmas. I might think of that ever so British expression to “chin up”.

But I do have a fine project for the beginning of December. I am going to Mexico City (the new nomenclature is CDMX) to photograph a photographer friend called Pedro Meyer who is 90. His marbles are intact but he told me that he is blind. I asked him if I would photograph him with eyes open, closed or in profile. He answered, “Alex tienes que hacerlo en las 3 maneras.”