Thursday, August 24, 2017

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For LL

Time for more from the portfolio LL. Maybe one day I'll post more innocent stuff, but these kind of blogs are to ensure you know what I had at my fingertips (so to speak😉) when you thought otherwise.






Studio NY




California

This is quite an old one - well before you and me.





Studio London

She had a great body and was very fit, in both senses of the word. A promise fulfilled you might say. She loved the shots, I took for free on this occasion.
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Two's Company  or rather 'four' in this shot

These two lovely ladies were at the Norfolk place one lovely summer's day in 2005 for photos. The pool called and out came the sun tan lotion. The nearest did the furthest and I did the nearest. A very pleasurable day LL. All were fully satisfied, some twice.




Showering in an Italian hotel...with a friend

Part of my six month sojourn in Italy, ostensibly to learn the language, which I did. I and various partners learned a few other things too.




Studio Lingerie shot - Bristol (appropriately!)



London


London - An oriental friend

We met through my regular visits to a certain restaurant in Chinatown. Not my first oriental conquest though....




Holiday in Valencia, Spain

Invitation to a party and then another sort of invitation ended up with this lady spending two or three nights in my bed. I took this as she was getting ready for bed, I think on the second night. I think it's quite a good shot although you can't see her face in this cropped version.





New York

Not a studio shot and I recall it was really cold outside. We kept warm though....


London Apartment

An English rose and the pale complexion to prove it. Great nipples. I was kneeling when I took this shot for her. Then she stood right over me...another invitation. Lick and flick she said, so I did. The rest I leave to your vivid imagination LL.




Location shoot - near Cincinnati, Ohio

Remember that trip I took in 2005 LL. To Indianapolis then on down to Florida. Then leaving there for Portland, Oregon, via Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. I'm sure you do. One of the reasons for stopping off in Ohio was that I had a several commissions to fulfill, photographically.

The above lady was one such although to be honest the rest were more industrial in nature. She was the respite from the rest. I seem to recall that we travelled to an factory that I had photographed the day before so that we might get some 'atmospheric shots. She loved them. Bearing in mind she was the wife of a industrial sites owner, she knew her way around the area.

Another neglected lady...there were so many.... You could have called it 'Brief Encounter' I guess. We had our fun in that old factory and I moved on to Salt Lake City the next day.


London Studio



London Apartment
London Apartment

I think the fact it was my apartment leaves the photos requiring no further explanation LL. The file says early October 2005. Interesting don't you think...

Norfolk, UK

Same bed, same bedroom LL...new sheets. I threw all of the others out when I found out what you had been up to. Lovely lay.




New England

A commission with benefits - 2007 - many of them were. Lucky me you once said. You never knew how lucky in some respects...LL.





Florida

WLC...do I need to say more. Met at the Grill...you know the one LL.



Minnesota

On my travels alone with nothing but my cameras, I met many lovely women. This was another of them. Do you know the State is called the 10,000 lakes State. We found this one for our shoot. Not a soul there...but you had to know your way around and she did...



Norfolk UK
Bottom up, and thee had been plenty of those at the Norfolk residence from 2004 onward. I think this beautiful creature dates from April of 04. A month after I found out about your playing away. First of many LL, first of many...




Studio London




Fakenham, Norfolk...with a friend

I told you about this lady way back - name begins with a K. This was taken at her place one rainy day. What do you do when it rains in a place such as that...hmmmm...well we weren't at a loss and it kept us warm


New England

This was a shoot but this particular shot was between more posed photos. Lovely view wouldn't you say.



Norfolk, UK
This shot should be familiar to you. It featured along with others in a much earlier blog.


Georgia, USA

Another encounter along the way back in 2007 with this black lady. She had the most perfect skin and the color was gorgeous...so was she.



Florida

Being a boobs man among other likes, this shot is one of many I have taken of various ladies over the years. The difference here was that it was taken at one of my places in Florida and I had the honor to handle them.


Boston, USA

A studio commission that turned into a brief relationship while I was in that neck of the woods. In deference to that fact this photo is cropped more than normal.



California

Without ever thinking about it or intending it, California turned out to be quite a 'fertile' State as far as women were concerned. Californication I guess you could say!

Here's one of the lovely ladies awaiting attention and satisfaction. We both received it!



London
The benefits of staying over at an old friend's place. No more need be said😉.




Oregon

Come on down...and she did. This was the view I had lying on my back for a change...and it was lovely, especially those beautiful boobs. Plenty to handle there. Believe it or not LL, this was in a place called Bend, Or.




Scotland

I flew to Edinburgh from Norwich for this shot and quite a few others LL. This was back in 2006. After the shoot I took the opportunity to visit my Scottish grandparents gave in Arbroath and to see my cousins in law near Pitlochry.

But this lady took precedence and she was a great subject even agreeing to lay on this cold and wet stone bridge for this shot. She came from Edinburgh or at least lived there and I stayed in Edinburgh for a couple of days before Arbroath etc...she was married but wanted a portfolio for her own reasons. There are three categories of women I have met - she fell into the subtle division, but not so subtle that she didn't get what she wanted...and she did in those woods and later, a day later at my hotel.


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Boston, USA

Back in Boston and you could say the 'luck of the Irish'. Appropriate for that city. My first day and night at my hotel ended in this post- coital photograph. Why are there always women in hotels looking for a quick lay? Never bothered to answer the question myself, just grasped opportunity with both hands in a manner of speaking.

After you and your machinations LL, I had no qualms about bedding as many women as I could. Life is for living, not moping about.





Philadelphia, USA

Similarly, this encounter in Philly was another hotel encounter. This lady was quite brazen about what she wanted and also had no inhibitions when it came to exhibiting her body. This was pre-coital. You can guess where I went from here...right where her right is.






Spain - villa

Another K this time. I took her on a long weekend break to my villa in Denia in the summer of 2005. You never knew about the villa did you - I said I hadn't told you everything. She hailed from Suffolk then, but now lives in Switzerland. She had lovely firm breasts I recall but could never come with her legs up. So that made life interesting but I satisfied her over and over again.

See below also...nice butt!

Spain - villa









Chicago

This was a recommendation from the Minnesota lady above. When I say recommendation I mean for a commission to take fashion and nude photos for a married friend of hers. Somehow, although shy and coy to begin with, she lost all her inhibitions by this stage of the shoot. Then she was very naughty and lost even more on that blanket. I often wonder whther she and her friend compared notes. Perhaps not as she was married.





UK

Back over the Pond to England for the next two shots - above and below. The K from Fakenham posing for me on a hot early morning on a wild stretch of the north Norfolk coast. later back to her place for a shower and some 'recreation'. If you are muddled there was another K in California, but sadly she is no longer with us.





UK




And finally.....



France

A touch of color. This technique is relatively easy, if you know how. I quite like it occasionally. This was quite a grand event that Ash and I attended just a year ago. The Bentley is just a few hundred yards away.

You have a nice day ma'am and consider what you 'pushed' me into. I thank you for that most sincerely.

Ciao Bella

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Friday, August 18, 2017

Mixed Bag

For LL




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suppose you could call this blog a mixed bag. That's not a reference to the subjects in any derogatory way, but more like putting you hand in a bag of candies and see what you get.


The first three are all studio shots as you might have guessed. I didn't have the pleasure of the first lady's company, nor did I seek it. The latter is true of the second too, but she sought a little pleasure and satisfaction following this session. Not there in the studio, although she was as did many others LL tempt me, and she knew what she was doing.

The first woman here  turned up at the studio for the glamour shots she wanted one pretty hot day. She told me, I seem to recall, that she had to get into work which is why this was quite an early assignment before 7.00 a.m. For me it was a bit of a rush job but an hour and half captured some pretty good moments, but not enough. That was how we had another appointment with more time to spare.

She must have been pre-occupied with thoughts of her working day on the previous visit because she was pretty relaxed the second time. Julia, that was her name, wanted various shots in a mix of states of undress, so I obliged, naturally.  It seems, as I found with many of the women I photographed that they become quite horny posing and stripped naked. Julia was no exception, as I came to find out.

The couch in the studio had seen previous 'events'  and it saw a couple more that day....



New York - Studio




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was obliging an old 'friend' here LL - Ellen - so this was not someone I hadn't seen naked before. I promised her a set of studio shots and she obliged showing a little more than I anticipated. It was fun though and I was sorely tempted to give that bottom a little slap but it would have shown up in the shots.


I did that later when we went back to my apartment.... No fee 'payment' in kind and a meal out in the West End.


London - Studio




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From indoors, the scene moves out doors for next few out of my mixed bag.








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location, another set of circumstances and a set of photographs.

I bumped into this lady in Norfolk. Someone I used to work with some years ago. In fact I used to manage her as part of the department I was charged with. She sometimes accompanied me out on client visits when I was in that role. Always felt she was flirting a bit especially on overnight visits. But, work was work and I was quite professional in my role both in applying skills and socially...plus I was seeing you then LL.

However, as I said, I bumped into her, literally in a busy Norwich one Friday after I had left that business to concentrate on my own. We both said sorry and then realized who each other was. I laughed and we stood in the mall quickly catching up. I asked if Mel (Melanie) had time for a coffee. She did, so we went to my usual watering hole back then - Auberge.

Over our coffee she asked what I was doing now and how it was going.I explained in broad terms about my involvement in real estate both residential and commercial. She asked whether I still had my US properties - my staff knew about them as I was often flying over the Pond - and what else I was up to. I said I filled my time with photography, writing and that I had returned to painting after many years,

That was when she asked whether I would like to take her photo. I said sure and asked when. She replied that Saturday morning would be good. The where was decided by the fact she wanted too have a look round my Norfolk home. After some further chat she left to go back to work.

The following day around 10.00 a.m. she turned up at my place. We had coffee and sitting out on the patio in the sun and she told me about her recent holiday in the south of France.

I had laid out my cameras and lenses in the day room and we took some indoor shots and portraits. Uploaded to my computer she viewed them and liked what I had done. She was also flirting with me as we leaned forward to check the shots. Her hips touched mine and as I glanced back at her to check her approval. I could also see she wasn't wearing a bra under that vee neck summer dress, nor any pantie hose (tights to you - I've been living in the States a long time now😄). Obviously that was just what she wanted me to see as she was bent lower than was necessary LL.

She suggested we take some outdoors, firstly in the garden then in the meadow adjoining the house.

The photos in the garden were taken. She was/ is a lively personality and getting her to pose was relatively easy. Then we walked over into the meadow a few yards. Her dress had a side zipper as we walked that few yards she unzipped the dress and stepped out of it. That happened quite quickly. As she slid it down I expected her to be without a bra and she was. She stood with her back to me and as the dress slid down to her waist and beyond it quickly became apparent there were no panties involve either.

I am never one to waste an opportunity so I took quite a few shots as she left that dress, two of which appear below. As can be seen LL she was lightly tanned and had obviously been wearing quite a skimpy bikini bottom. I like photos not just to be what one sees but what one feels.

Here was a young lady with smooth, evenly tanned skin, youthful and quite sexy in her way. So I softened the focus a little and graded the background colors down a little, which I felt enhanced her natural beauty.

I guess she was only about 5' 6" without shoes. So not in the long leg department so beloved by the writer.. Nevertheless she had a nice figure and small but what looked to be firm young breasts and puffy nipples which, I have to admit, had some effect on me!

After our photos we wandered back to the house. Mel, still naked, having gathered up her dress. It was a delight to follow and she swung her hips knowingly. Of course, the idea of sex with her crossed my mind. No red-blooded male could ignore her body. However, given her youth and the fact we had once worked together, I left her to make any move, and I was fairly certain, given her state of nakedness and the 'come on' signals I was getting, that that move wasn't far away.

 Sure enough LL, as we stepped over the threshold of the patio door she turned around, reached for my belt and asked if I wanted her. A no brainer! I was soon out of what few clothes I wore and my hands around her waist as we kissed then fell gently back onto the larger of the two couches, you may remember LL. As you can see her boobs were small (and manly white) but very easily arouse with some caressing and squeezing. Nice sucking on those puffy nipples too. As I was a little heavy for her I let her be on top at first. Later I stood as she lay back against the back of he couch and pulled her legs up and apart.

I told her it was the first time I had done that with someone I had worked with, albeit in the past. I lied of course😉!

You may have guessed by now LL, that I love women, the company of women and sex.


Norfolk, UK




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T alking..... of small boobs and puffy nipples here are two more subjects of my camera. The first two below were taken by the oak tree across from the utility room at the old Norfolk house The second single one, three thousand plus miles away in New England.

Immediate below is Helen. She was a recommendation from Mel above, although not someone I had worked with. She was with a broker we had contacts with. I think Mel must have shown her my work as she wanted something similar but was far more interested in nude shots.

These younger women were even hornier than some of the somewhat older subjects I encountered over the years. I still think it is down partly to hormones, of course, but also being naked with a man LL. She was taller than Mel and had longer legs, obviously. The rest I will leave to your imagination. You had a lot to be jealous of, but you had left or were playing away, so I felt quite free....










The New England shot below was a commission -and involved probably the smallest breasts I had encountered. To use a photographic term, they were still in their development phase😊! More like sparrows kneecaps than melons.

Nevertheless they were quite sensitive.... apparently...and, no I didn't although it was on offer LL









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T his.....
commission came via a friend in London. I had only a photo on FB to go on, but the lady in question (below) had learned of my reputation - good or bad😄 - and wanted me to take several sets of photos for her. All my expenses met, plus my usual fee. I flew out of Heathrow for Dubrovnik, LL, and was picked up at the airport and whisked off to her palatial home in the hills near the City.

I was wined and dined that evening at her place...just the two of us. She was charming company and her heavily accented English added to that charm. She volunteered that she was divorced and had received a generous 'settlement', hence her beautiful home. Outside there was a pool and terraced garden.

The shoot was to take place the following day, so well oiled with wine we both retired after sitting outside and watching the sun go down over the Adriatic. Separate bedrooms, of course.

The next morning I awoke early, no hangover and a beautiful day in prospect. I slipped my boxers on, opened the sliding doors and took a look at the day. Then back inside to shower, shave and dress. We took breakfast on the patio.

Afterward I readied my equipment for the shoot, part inside, part out. She had hired in lighting equipment per my instructions and I set that up. Then the serious business started. I took portrait shots, fashion, shots etc against different backgrounds and in various lighting modes. We reviewed the shots mid morning and she was pleased with the results, although I was going to do a little more work on them when I returned to London.

The break also gave Mia a rest from striking poses for the camera. In that respect she was a natural. We talked of course and I tactfully inquired as to how she amused herself. She told em she spent time in London and New York and the south of France as well as Venice. The latter being just the other side of the Adriatic.

After our break and several cups of good strong coffee we continued. More fashion shots - she had an extensive wardrobe of high class couture. Then Mia changed into various swimsuits, one piece and bikini. After that she decided lingerie was next up, some of which left little to the imagination, and she knew it, of course. I had, had few thoughts in that direction until the swimsuit and lingerie photos but she had a lovely body and what man doesn't appreciate a beautiful woman.

We broke again late morning to review the second session and she slipped a robe on. Lunch followed with Mia still in her robe and undies. She suggested we relax by the pool that afternoon and then eat out before I returned to London the following day. I said I would pack my camera equipment away but she suggested I leave it and take some informal photos during the rest of the day.

What followed that afternoon was 'fun' and some relaxation and some exercise. As I sorted a camera and lens she walked down to her pool. By the time I reached it, I couldn't see her, but her undies and robe were on one of the sunbeds. Then she surfaced at the far end of the pool. She was naked. Join me she had said and so I did. She said you don't need those, pointing to my swimmers, so I slipped them off and plunged in - she swam toward me, put her arms around my neck and wrapped her legs around my waist.

We kissed and things hotted up quite rapidly from there. She had dark nipples and as I looked down at them in the shallow end of the pool, she said for me to suck them. I grabbed her buttocks and leaned down and did just that. Her legs were wide apart and her pussy was on the waterline. I was proud...who wouldn't have been LL! We swiftly climbed out and still wet I took her on one of the sunbeds. Her moans were something else.

She told me afterward that it had been a while....

Sometime after we went down to the very edge of her estate and I took the photos below. To remember me by she said. As if I could forget Mia that easily LL. We met again in London and the South of France - Nice and St Tropez. We are still in touch some twelve years later.



Croatia








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F all.....

over here in New England is a great time to take photos and so it was I ended up here in Maine with my first Oriental woman.  She is actually American born and bred. I said this was 'a mixed bag', and it is.

We had hooked up on one of my trips over here when I then lived in the UK. Hooked up means exactly that LL. For a period in time we saw each other fairly regularly as lovers. This was the second time I had seen Kathryn nude. The first time was the night before when we were at it like rabbits. I could tell another story here, but I will leave you to think on it LL, as it was during Fall 2006 that I took these. I then came back to the UK to share a holiday with Carole in the Balearics....busy guy wasn't I😉.

I wasn't going to let the things you had done hold me back. It was quite a laugh for me, when you gloated over what was then your new man back then, considering I was 'enjoying' a lot of far more attractive women at the time.




New England



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Y ou.....
have never been there, I'm pretty sure. The Gower Peninsula is miles of sandy shoreline stretching to the Bristol Channel to the south and the Irish Sea to the west.

Consequently there are many remote places to take the sun in private. That is what Jan is doing here. I guess some small explanation is appropriate as to how I ended up on this beach with this lovely young woman.

You'll note the long legs again and decent sized boobs LL. Two of my ideal requirements.

I am to this day not sure how I attracted all the women I did. It may be they had a need, or it may be they just plain liked me. Either way there was no one more surprised than me when they fell into my arms (literally and metaphorically) with very little effort on my part.

Jan was, back then, working for me partly, as my agent in Bristol where I had real estate. She had another job as well. On one of my trips down there we became rather close, especially as she had put me up in her one bed apartment. I spent the first night on an air mattress I recall, but that proved impractical as it took over the lounge/diner. So the second night was spent together in her bed.

It just happened - we went to bed. She stripped off, I striped off and before we knew it we were entwined, kissing and fondling...and then making love twice. She had never had her clit licked by a man so that sent her over the top in a multiple way if you get my drift LL.

If I remember correctly what she is laughing about in the photo below is...the night before. We had a few hours naked on that beach before we saw any one and then only in the distance....and so we took advantage of that fact once again.

I took this photo just before, LL....



Gower, Wales...



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have traveled widely in France and on the occasion here I was in the south. No commissions, nor professional shoots just two people having a fun time in an out of the way place.

I had flown to Paris and picked up Aimie from her place. Or, rather I made my way there and we used her car to travel south, with one overnight stop. I knew a lot of French women back then. I still know them of course, but not now in the sexual sense of the word.

Aimie and I had a wonderful week in the south wine good food and good sex. We were satiated with all three. Lovely lady and very warm. No baggage like you and certainly not as naive as you in the bedroom. You really were a 'strange one', weren't you. I put it down to your limited horizons and small town outlook. You still possess it you know. You were never going to come anywhere near me for a more international and cosmopolitan view of the world.

As you can see from the photos below, Aimie enjoyed my company greatly as did nearly all the women I met.

France






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next three photos are part of a set taken at a Miami studio I hired to complete this commission. As you know my home was back over on the west coast of Florida. The day had been quite long and this lady's husband was in NY for the week, so I stayed over and took her out to dinner on Miami Beach (not the literal beach!)

One night stand I guess or more accurately a one night lay. We had finished our meal in high spirits and gotten a cab. I had every intention of going back to my hotel...and I did, but with this lady's company for the night. After a night cap in the bar we were soon in my room and stripped off and under the sheets.

Mmmm...nice warm memories of that time. Good to see her again, even though not in the flesh.

Boy, did you have reasons to be jealous after you went your own silly way LL!





Florida






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 so to Denmark. I made many trips there especially after I became involved with the pharmaceutical company I have spoken of in the past. (We now own it outright). But back then when these photos were taken in 2006, I was just one of four shareholders. 

On this occasion I was over there for a meeting at the factory that manufactured our products and which we then licensed out. Took ages to get full approvals from the EU! It was around then, although thinking about it maybe back in 2005, that I took photography seriously. So, as I recall, I went loaded with my cameras and lenses...and I'm pleased I did.

This young lady who will remain anonymous...and she not so young now ll...was a secretary/assistant at our Danish offices. Apart from me the only other people in the meetings were two women and a man who was a research scientist from Cambridge, UK.

If there was anyone she might have latched on to it was me, and she did. While I was there she flirted openly with me although it seemed to pass the others by. They were all married and I was widowed, so maybe that had something to do with it. Again I was surprised at someone her age being attracted to me but she wasn't the first, and certainly not the last.

To cut a long story short, we were all there over the weekend. The others had their husbands and wife with them, so I made my excuses about photography etc and that I would do my own thing.

The lady in question here showed me Copenhagen. I had seen the usual tourist places in the past but this was a journey to locations off the beaten track. As I said to cut a long story short we ended up at her small place which was in the country outside Copenhagen.

Photography formed part of the the two days I spent there and lots of sex most of the rest of the time. She was in the habit of wandering around indoors completely nude and was totally uninhibited. I found out from future encounters in Denmark and Sweden that this was a Scandinavian trait.

As you can see LL small but very perky boobs, lovely skin and long legs made for a very interesting two days. We met again several times and just did pretty much the same thing. It seems my 'techniques', which I always vary to maintain interest, were the big attraction, that and the fullest satisfaction that was guaranteed😉.



Denmark








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no need to expand on what was entailed here. A day on a north Norfolk beach, away from the 'madding crowd'. Julie and I often escaped here (not saying where exactly) where she could bathe and sunbathe topless...apart that is from my place, where she bathed fully nude. I remember we went back to Wells (Wells next-the Sea) and bought cockles and sat eating them on the sea wall afterward.

I know those breasts very well and lovely they were too as was the rest of her and the satisfaction she brought me and me her. This was 2005 LL...note.



Norfolk





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Chance.....
encounters seemed to my thing back then - this was taken in 2006 - and on this occasion it was a very pleasant encounter indeed.

Tall slim, long legged and 'shaved'. Pretty good start in my book. I was on one of the Greek islands taking a short break - just a few days - in 2006, when I met Gemma.

She was on a sunbed on the hotel's own beach and so was I. I was reading then taking it easy. She was doing the same while listening, I guessed, to music on her iPod, back then. Naturally after a while and with just one sunbed separating us we got to chatting. She was topless and wearing skimpy bikini bottom leaving me not knowing where to place my eyes.

We talked and I found it best to just look at her face. She was on here own in a manner of speaking. She had travelled there on one of those escorted holidays, so there was a group. She said she had hoped there would be someone she could find common ground with among the othesr, but she didn't.

I think, looking back she found my tales of my life and travels fascinating and we sort got on quite well. She knew I was looking at her body and she asked point blank if I liked it - you bet I did!

Be my dinner companion tonight she had said and you can have it to enoy. We agreed to meet in the lobby for dinner. She was thinking as she had half board we would eat in. I said no - lets go into town and find a genuine Grekk place and we did. Had a great evening and in her room an even greater night. Getiing up to all sorts of antics on the bed and out of it. In the shower in the armchair and back on the bed over the three nights I was there.

On my last day we exchanged numbers and we met up again in the UK - in Leeds where she lived. She was actually a Londoner.

Lucky lad wasn't I LL.

One day I ought to tell you of my travelsto see you after I found out about your playing away

 

Greece




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 My.....
final offering in this 'mixed bag' is in fact the first woman I met in Massachusetts. The one who found my first home there back in 2006. I no longer have it but you once saw a photo of it. This is the backyard. Backyard is a bit of a misnomer as it ran to 28 acres of woodland and ponds and a small lake. These were taken by the lake.

Annette was a lovely girl, very lively and happy go lucky. After you LL she was a real breath of fresh air. She blew the cobwebs of the past away and on occasions blew me...away. If you get my drift. Something you would never do, as I recall. Never mind, others made up for it and Annette was one of them. I won't bore you with our lovemaking...although it was far from boring...I'll just let you imagine me on top of her and she on top of me. My hands on her body and especially those boobs, my lips on hers...all of them and the way we both used our tongues on each other...... 





New England




Ciao bella

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