May Photo Challenge – May 08

I got a bit carried away eating chocolate today. We had a very big box of Malteasers (chocolate covered malt balls) and having that within arm’s reach was rather dangerous. Game Fanatic also baked some brownies using them for Mother’s day and our family ate the entire lot of them. So I must take a break from chocolate for a few days.

I was feeling a bit lethargic by late afternoon but forced myself out on a walk anyway. My first goal was to get some photos for but I ended up walking to our local markets to pick up some bulk goods from our favorite shop there. The sky was pretty overcast and the light wasn’t great but I hoped I’d find some thing to inspire me along the way.

I walked for quite a long time before any inclination came over me to take out my camera. I was walking around a shopping center and notice a bit of blue sky poking out from the clouds while looking down the alley way between two buildings.

This is from a different alley way. Neither of these were quite what I was trying to capture but I don’t think I had a clear notion of what I really wanted when I took them. Perhaps it was just a matter of getting started…

This was taken from another sort of alley way, also within the same shopping complex. There are several buildings next to each other but not technically connected. This is from the last section. I guess the one building that would be painted would likely be a graphic design center…if I am remember correctly. The end of the building opposite is painted but it’s an ugly yellow to represent the colors of the music chain that occupies that space. I had to crop this  heavily because it started out looking like a lot of sky/cloud/blue with a bit off to the left.

I took this as I walking towards home along a main road near the above shopping center. It isn’t quite as dark as it appears but it will be soon.

This is the view of the western sky from the main road, just near a major power station in our area. I still had nearly 25 minutes of walking ahead but about ten minutes of any light. This was fine along the main road with all the lights but my path was going to be considerably darker. I was also struggling with the heaviness of my bag, which now held my camera and too many bulk food purchases.

A major hardware warehouse was just ahead so I stopped there and called home, asking the Scientist for a lift back. It was hardly any time at all before he arrived and soon I was home watching the end of the repeat of last night’s Doctor Who episode. Despite it being a repeat of such a recent episode, it was still pretty cool viewing.