Of washing-up bowls, 'Joy' and The Gallery...

So, it's Wednesday again, and time for Tara's Gallery.

The prompt this week was 'Joy'. I did consider taking a photo of my new washing up bowl, but decided to spare you the mundane-ness of that image. (I mention this because it's discovery in a local supermarket yesterday was a joyous occasion for me; for some reason such things aren't ten-a-penny over here, and it's taken me 3 months to find one. I know, a washing up bowl is ridiculous object to covet, but having one makes life just that little bit simpler and I'm all for that right now...) Then I thought about showing you one of the hundreds of photo's of my children showing absolute joy, but sadly, that brings me up against my self-imposed rule of not showing their faces.

So instead, again, I've had to make do with using a back-shot taken on a beach in Queensland a couple of years ago. I hope that you'll believe me when I tell you that the next photo in the series, of Boys #1 and #2 facing the camera, shows all the joy that you could ever hope to see on the faces of your children...

The Gallery

I'm taking part in Tara at Sticky Finger's photo Gallery and the prompt for this week is 'Beauty'.

I've been lucky enough to visit some beautiful places and have even - occasionally - remembered to take my camera out of my bag to record them. The picture above was taken from a water plane over the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and I think it fits this week's theme perfectly.

One of these days I may even get around to printing it out so that I can look at it in the depths of our Russian winter and remind myself of a time when I was warm!