Plead The Fleeting Moment

After breakfast we took a stroll through the Sunday morning quiet streets of the La Macarena district near our hotel, past whitewashed churches and convents, barred and shuttered bars to the eyecatching Metropol Parasol, popularly known as Las Setas (The Mushrooms), which marks the gateway to the district. You can walk the skywalk at the top of this structure (see extra) which gives commanding views of the Cathedral.

I'm reading Tony Parsons' Man & Wife at the moment in which one of the characters, an aspiring professional photographer quotes from a poem, she thinks, that a photo "pleads the fleeting moment to remain".

Nobody on the internet seems to have been able to find this poem but a lot of bloggers have used the quote so maybe Parsons made the "quote" up but I guess it holds true for many photos.

Anyway, I liked the way this one caught two other photographers in the act of "pleading", as well as capturing the curves of the Parasol.

After a stroll around the Cathedral area and a tapas lunch in a nearby bar, we walked on to the Plaza de Espana (another extra) which is stunningly beautiful with its water, arches, bridges and tiles but was also searingly hot. My final extra captures that fleeting moment when Tess & I had joined a lot of others cooling off in the fountain and a slight breeze caught the fountain and soaked us both, refreshingly, to the skin.

We had to stop at our local bar and sample another beer (or two) to quench a considerable thirst by the time we'd walked back to the hotel.

Apologies for lack of comments while I'm away.