I have had this plus sized striped top from Avenue for ages. Probably at least five years. And it was fine on its own but I always prefer that third piece when possible. When I bought it I thought it would be a simple matter to find a grey cardigan to go over it. Sigh. That didn’t happen. Then last winter when I got the white jeans I kept visualizing the two pieces with a camel cardigan. And finally, after so many years, the striped top is part of an outfit!

You have no idea how many times it wound up in the sell/donate pile because I thought I was never going to find Just the Right Piece to wear with it. But I kept pulling it out because I like it and the fit is good.

Someday I might actually find the grey cardigan of my dreams, and it will work with that, too.

Do you ever hang onto an article of clothing like that? You don’t have anything to wear it with now, but you like it, and you spend weeks, months or even years searching for its perfect mate?? I try not to do that too often. I don’t like to keep clothing items hanging around that can’t pull their weight, but…who’d have thought it would be so challenging to find a simple grey cardigan?? And it’s not like I never wore it over the past few years. I just didn’t wear it often because I knew it would be better under a complimentary piece.

The first picture in the post was taken by my girlfriend at a museum, the rest I took outside with the help of the tripod. I’m notorious for never being quite fully-prepared, even with as much planning and preparation as I do. This day I got up, literally, at the crack of dawn so I could shoot on the streets of town before there were people out. It was darker still than it appears in the pictures. I got dressed, re-foofed my hair, loaded up the car and drove down to town. And realized I’d left the remote to the wireless shutter on the kitchen table. ARGH! IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING!

I didn’t want to take the time to drive back home for it because people were already starting to mill about, so I just used the camera timer. Which means walk to camera, set focus to where you think it should be, set timer to 10 seconds, jog back to where you think you will be in focus, pose, CLICK, walk back to camera to see that you weren’t even in frame (ha). Start process again. It can take many, many tries to get just a few usable pictures.

Anyway, I thought you might like to see where I was shooting. Plus, I thought the Christmas lights were so pretty in the pretty early morning light.

The John W. Engeman Theater is right on Main St. in town, but while it was a movie house when first built in 1912, it is now a live playhouse theater. If Katie had been here longer I was going to get us tickets to Elf The Musical, but 🙁 Anyway, I have not been to see anything yet, but I hope to before I leave the area.

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