soup season

I've been making a lot of soup recently. I made potato-leek soup at F's house last week because he had a cold (he ate it all immediately). Then today I made generally vegetabley soup. My camera is kind of borderline broken, but I worked at it and took a picture because the soup looked so colorful:



Also, on Wednesday I went to a middle eastern art demonstration night. They had Turkish music, snacks, painting, calligraphy, and some ladies doing mehendi. I had never had it before and the henna paste smelled really good, so I got them to do one of my hands:


It's been a couple of days now and I didn't leave it on long to begin with, so the stain is already fading a little. But I liked how the henna marks are almost exactly the same color as my pre-existing freckles. I thought it might look weird on me because I'm very pale, but I really like how this turned out and would definitely do it again.