Crescent moon

Photograph of the day: Today we had an elopement in Stellenbosch. Kyle (a fellow photographer that I often work with) and I drove together. Kyle drove my car (he drives a motorbike). He drove because I had a rough night’s sleep (or lack of it) so I thought it would be safer (it was, this is not foreshadowing). When got to my home, Blanche (our Polo) was on our curb close to the house and another car had taken the pavement opposite. We were deciding where to park when a car came up behind us. There is nothing quite as annoying as a car tailing you when you want to make a u-turn or just need a moment to idle. The driver was impatient so Kyle decided to drive up the cup-de-sac and turn around at the top. On the way up, I saw the crescent moon. That was just an excuse to say crescent moon – I like the phrase so much and I like the phase too. When we got to the block of flats at the top of the hill, I asked Kyle to wait a moment while I jumped out the car to take a photo on my phone. They’re building a very big fancy estate up there called the Ridge. Since it’s big and fancy it has a solid fence and an electric wire. I had to go onto my tiptoes to clear the fence and then balance to slide through the electric wire (I didn’t want anything cutting through my photo, even if it is a blurry cityscape). Kyle asked me if I didn’t have a stack of photos I could pull from and post, and I told him that I had to take the photo on the actual day. So here it is. 23.02.2023. A good looking date. A below average photo but it’s here and I took it today and the evening and the city lay, still, beneath us.