[Leica] Nathan's PAD 11/9/2021: a delightful lady in Aigues

[Tina Manley]

Inspirational!!  And a beautiful lady.

Tina

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 2:49 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I have been a bit silent in the past few days, mainly because last week I
> was on my first business trips since March 2020, albeit just to Madrid,
> where our office was sponsoring a major academic conference. Now I am back
> home, processing photos and cycling. This morning, I did my usual
> Aigües-Busot route. In Aigües, the usually sleepy square in front of the
> church was very lively—a local arts and crafts market was taking place. As
> usual, I bought a Coke at the small supermarket and took a break. This lady
> asked me where I had cycled from, and we had a nice conversation. She is
> originally from the Netherlands but has lived here for many years, now
> retired, and she spends her time on hiking in the mountains and making
> beautiful things out of stuff we throw away—shopping bags, water bottles,
> aluminium cans and the like. She told me that she had a good pension and
> did not need the money, but she wanted to show her neighbours in the
> village that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. She happily
> posed for me:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-n3jsmQN/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-n3jsmQN/A>
>
> And this is an example of her work, a basked made of plastic shopping bags:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qx3Dp84/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qx3Dp84/A>
>
> Cycling has many rewards, including meeting people like her.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>
> YNWA
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