November 3: Lapis

The Indian shop
the smell of roasting chestnuts
these lapis earrings --
Your delight in the colors
that day on Great Russell Street.

(top photo, with my late mother-in-law, London, 1996)

Comments

[Rachel Barenblat]

Beautiful -- images and words both!

[Natalie]

Great pictures. And was the dark-haired woman J's mother? She looks very young!

[Dick]

Neat'n'sweet, Beth!

[Beth]

Thanks, Rachel, Natalie, Dick. And no, my mother-in-law is the white-haired woman in the beret in the foreground. The dark-haired woman owned the shop, and her own mother -- a small, white-haired Indian woman, always in a sari -- was often there -- another reason my mother-in-law enjoyed stopping in.

[marly youmans]

And did you go home with those earrings? Lovely that you have fine memories of your mother-in-law...