More a feeling than a fact

It didn't look exactly like this but it felt like this, it's how being with you feels, perfect, magical, serene and an almost gilded sense of belonging.

Holiday Postcard

Wish we were there x

Reflecting at Christmas

Christmas, a time for reflecting, looking back over the past year and remembering the places and the great times and all the memories made that will stay in my mind and in my heart, forever wrapped up in you.
Things make an existence, people make a life, and you make mine the best. Cue Christmas cliche...
It's a wonderful life. Thank you for being you. I hope you know, although words aren't enough to tell you, how perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect you are.

We all shine differently

Without the night this is nothing, with the night it just fits beautifully.
You are my night. You make me.

You rock!

You rock my world so I know you'll rock an open mic!

Being there is most of it

If what you crave is already a part of your life then that is enough to dream, to make plans and to create new memories from new adventures. It's always there, sometimes just farther away, but always waiting, always within reach, and forever in my heart and mind.

When the thrill never leaves you

The amusement park or the fairground, you pay your dues and get 2 minutes of pleasurable abandonment, let your heart race and your adrenaline rush, laugh, cry, smile. Then Stop. That's all folks.
You are my thrill. The rush of emotions every time is just like the first. You make my heart sing. You make my nerves rush. You make my mind free. You make me. It's always the best of times. The pure pleasure that is being with you. The absolute love I have for you.

It just keeps getting better

How far we've come yet how much around us is unchanged. One of oh so many joys of being with you is that just 'being' with you is perfect. Out of season is the perfect season. Almost closed means there's enough open. It means we can enjoy everything on our terms. In your company everything means much more. You are my added dimension.

I'll never forget the first time but you make every time unforgettable

It doesn't matter where and it doesn't matter what, with you it's all made perfect.
You are the secret ingredient that makes my life so unique and so special.

Common ground

I can share this now you've seen it! It's another of those memories that seem to find us, knowing what we like and enjoy.  Having so much in common is wonderful and sharing it personally with you makes everything more special.

How did we get here?

We never really know where we'll end up but wherever we are we fit together perfectly.

Okay so the picture isn't perfect...

...but the day was and this image reminds me of the great time we had and that's what pictures should do. It prompts my memory and my memory prompts my smile and my smile reminds me of the difference having you in my life makes.

Looking back a bit

While the detectorist detected the snapper snapped. This was the longest we spent apart when together. It seems so long ago but then I miss you as soon as I turn my head.

Cold War soundtrack

The music was there if you looked but I think we can both agree the soundtrack wasn't disco!

Just 'be' there

A beach sculpture. It became what it was by virtue of those creating it making the most of what they had to hand.  It turned out pretty well. It's like when we spend time together, when there's no plan and no real knowledge we make the most of where we are. It turns out pretty well!

Treasured thinking

It's having so much in common that makes me miss you in every part of my day.
In recognition of a shared love of the treasure that is other peoples junk I bring you 'Still Life with Tins'!

Greater pleasures, just don't sweat the rule book.

I'm sure only the British could make something as simple as a cup of tea quite so full of rules and methodologies but wherever you are a tea room is a welcome sight. Just add the company of your choice and you have one of life's greater pleasures.

Mini Me

Nothing like a hall of mirrors to give oneself a fresh perspective. I look up to you now, imagine how much further I'd have to go if I was this size. Nice legs though!

Hopes

We're all a mix of old and new, the memories and the hopes. You need the right person to make future memories, otherwise you just keep hoping the same hopes.

Worth the wait

Like butterflies in autumn and rainbows on a sunny day I miss you but wait knowing that it all comes back more beautiful than I remember.

The best

The best art is art that draws you in, keeps you looking and finding new in the increasingly familiar.
The best music is that which connects with you then lifts you and takes you away.
The best person is the one that draws you close, gives you every reason to be there and then moves your mind and soul.
The best times are those with you, a beautiful combination of the best.

This is Kings Cross, where once I waited.

You bring quality to life

Meditative, reflective, being able to just watch. These sculptures have been doing that for years. People come every day and do the same but I wonder if they appreciate it, being able to spend their quality time in quality ways. I do. It's sharing time with you that makes me realise what life is for.

A memory is more than a picture

Most will look at this and see. Only we can look at this and remember.

The longer you stay the better it gets

Spend time in the presence of beauty and you are rewarded. It's experiences that make life worth while.

More beautiful than it looks

There isn't an ugly sunset but only we know how beautiful this one actually was.

I listen and I remember

Remember when we were chatting about fairs, what your mum liked and what you liked? You said you liked the Helter Skelter. I remembered because I listen. I listen because I'm interested in everything about you. I remember because when you're not here with me my memories bring you back.

For you I have so many words

For a fiver or so he'll write what he thinks you want to hear. Anything that brings poetry or literature of any kind to a wider audience is to be applauded in my mind. But...
I'd never written a poem until I met you and then I really wanted to, needed to. I'd never felt such emotions before, never felt it was the right thing to do, but you opened me up, you gave me so many reasons to be. You are probably the poet, I'm just the response to your love.

Perspective

Ignore perspective and the tangents will destroy you. When everything points to the same position then that's the right position. If she tells you that she loves you then she loves you. When you know you're in the place you dream of then live the dream. If you can't hold her in your arms then hold her in your heart. Love works one way, if you feel it then she feels it too.
When your heart and mind know you've won the Jackpot, stop gambling.
I'm going to turn this back around.

Saying it, sharing it.

Street art is it's own language, known only to those you want to know it. In my youth you'd see people's desires carved into the bark of a tree or scrawled In black marker on any flat surface. If we were there then I'd have immortalised us. We weren't, so I did it virtually anyway!

I get you get me

"Each to their own" said the bloke when he asked what I was photographing. That's the thing about life, not everybody gets everything, many get very little. One of the beauties of us is that we get each other and that's a dimension that very very few are lucky enough to have.

Your reality can be my fantasy

This reminds me of Metropolis but to most it will just be a blurry building. It's like life, sometimes what to you is just ordinary is to me closer to a dream. Like being with you.

Hold back the night

Behind you the fairy lights cheer the square as their glow pushes back the night. In front of me there's you. Pretty is the background for the beautiful.

   

Go south at night

Night time on the Southbank. How many memories are made here, I know I have a few. It's funny how you can sit within the hubbub of the city at night and still feel that there's only us.

Forever Beauty

Beauty in nature is ephemeral. I wish the beautiful in my life is for always.

So natural

Sometimes things fit together so naturally it's almost as if, despite coming from different places, they were always meant to be.

When letters make more than words

Like so many things in life, it's what you make of them. This week an A to Z melted my heart. Who knew but you.

I wouldn't change a thing

I love this photo, it is, and will remain, one of my favorites and the reasons are simple. It has an atmosphere that makes you want to be there,  the trees are beautiful in their own right but you get to see inside the trees so the beauty is multiplied. If I could go back and spend time there again and again I would but would I change a thing? Absolutely not.
You can't say you truly love anything if you want to change even the smallest thing.

Not everything is a memory

I've been here many times and seen many things, some I can remember, most not without a prompt. But when we came I can tell you what we did and what we saw. While one person alone can remember, it takes two to create a memory.

Remember back but dream forward

Before we start of on 2018's adventures there's this that reminds me of where it started in 2017.
It's nice to look back. It's nicer still to dream forward.

Like the surface, love the depths

I like this, at first glance it looks like someone has gone all William Morris on the fire escape, but I don't love it. It works in colour because it's all surface, no depth, but it will never work in black and white and black and white is where feeling and emotion lay. That's what causes you to connect and then love something.
I was attracted to you when I saw you. I only fell in love with you when I could see beyond.

I'm not closed, just waiting to be opened

Like a lot of people I look at winter and wish for spring. But winter can be good too, it just makes things look different, and I can see there is reward in effort. Unless I try I lose anyway, and we don't get infinite goes at anything.

I feel safer now...

he's behind bars!

Word Power

Just a bit of philosophical graffiti perhaps but it's not just the words people say or send but the effort they put in to doing it in the first place that shows how much they care about and believe in what they are telling you.

Ups, downs or just the thrill of it

People, like life, can be a roller-coaster of ups and downs but hopefully it's the thrill that stays with you.