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  In between kitchen cupboard cleaning and organising  I went to the cinema to see The Roads Not Taken . The beautiful Selma Hayek  A day in the life of Leo ( Javier Bardem) a Mexican author suffering from a dementia like mental illness , isn’t an easy watch. As Leo is taken to routine visits to the dentist and optometrist by his daughter Molly ( Ellie Fanning) we glimpse two former periods of his life, which are either muddled and sporadic memories or present day hallucinations and the film is a relentless study of a mind fragmented and a psychi blunted  Don’t go and see it if you are at a low ebb..... Bardem who is usually so animated and watchable in his movies captures that faraway vagueness of dementia quite brilliantly and Selma Hayek is worth watching too in a smallish but vital role as his grief stricken first wife Hummmm yes depressing stuff So on a brighter note,  When I was out walking the younger dogs Winnie broke into a full shopping bag without breaking a dozen eggs and m...

 Yesterday I went out to collect some leaves - leaves that had fallen recently and were still soft.  In fall when leaves start dropping if you want to do anything with them and not have them break you have to get them soon after they drop and haven't dried out yet.  Since it's so early in fall there's not a lot of variety yet.  Liquid Amber leaves  are just beginning to turn and I've only found a few on the ground.  Wild ferns are all over the place and easy to get.  Dogwoods are changing fast as are black oak and some others I'm not sure of what they are.  So I went to two different shoreline areas knowing which trees I wanted to see if they were dropping yet. When I got home I wanted to flatten the leaves out so I could use them in another leaf project.  I have an old Reader's Digest World Atlas book that's large and heavy with beautiful maps.  I placed these leaves  in there along with other leaves on different pages to flatten them.  I thought these look...

A nice moment of total control in this uncertain world No covid Blogger playing up No rules No work No people with their mouths open like naked baby birds  It’s Raining hard outside And I am ordering my kitchen cabinets  One by one Bliss