Whew, it's been two months since we wrote a journal entry. We've been busy both in the vanilla and fetish worlds. We've tried to keep up with regular web site updates, but it's a lot faster to throw a few dozen photos into a gallery than it is to sit down and write a textual account to explain the story.

So first, a very brief description of August...we travelled to Washington State to visit Lew Rubens at his secret mountain hideaway (see Train Set, Jack Here, Night Chains and King Dancer).

While in Washington we visited Mt Rainier, and we shot a series of cheesecake and bondage photos at the base of the famous mountain. I dreamed of one day doing another snow-bondage series using the glaciers of Mount Rainier as a setting.

Our second adventure in August is a cautionary tail of technology and paranoia...no fetish content in this report, but perhaps a good deal of masochism inherent in leading a digital life (it is a very geeky report).

September brought a major trip to Austin, Texas. While most of the trip was busy with vanilla activity, we did attend two fetish parties and shoot a bondage photo set. One party was private, and one was to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the Group With No Name.

Once we'd gotten most of our vanilla chores done, we had an afternoon to devote to play.

For this scene, I drove Dee to a nearby shopping mall (the kind of shopping center with two floors, Sears and Penney's on the ends, a couple of other major stores in the middle, and a Frederick's and Victoria's Secret in the middle).

Dee was wearing a tank top and jeans, and as usual she wasn't wearing any underwear. I took her purse but handed her a wad of bills. Then we walked into the food court and sat down to discuss her assignment.

She had one hour to buy a complete outfit:

• a garter belt and black stockings, preferably with a seam up the back,
• a black quarter-cup bra,
• a white long-sleeved blouse,
• a tight skirt above the knee,and
• a pair of high-heeled shoes.

As you can see from the photo, she did manage to complete her task, although she took slightly longer than an hour. She had a plausible excuse...she kept having to stop and politely decline invitations from random strange men for dinner dates, drinks and various other attentions.

Once she was done, I took a photo and the lead her back to the car. We drove out into the country, and of course I enforced Dee's "no sitting on your skirt rule". With her tight skirt, that meant she was showing everything as we drove.

I liked this so much that I made her unbutton her blouse far enough that I could admire the quarter-cup bra.

I have no idea whether guy in the blue car noticed, but I'm sure he would have admired it, too.

I was so pleased, in fact, that I thought it was time to reward Dee for her obedience, so I took her to a drive-in and bought her a hot fudge sundae (with nuts).

We've stopped at this drive-in chain many times, and invariably we have our food brought by a female waitress. But of course, on the day that Dee has her privates appearing in public thanks to the tight skirt, a male waiter brought our food.

Again, I don't know what he saw, but the Gates of Heaven were open if only he wanted to look.

We drove to a secluded country location. Once we got off the main road, I stuffed Dee into the trunk and closed the lid. The I drove a little farther before letting her out.

Note that no slaves were harmed in the making of this photoset. At no time was Dee in the trunk while we were on a public road. And for those of you who've always wondered, YES, there is a glow-in-the-dark T-shaped pull handle inside the trunk. The handle has a graphic that shows the trunk opening and a little figure running away from the car. Dee thought the little running figure was cute.

After driving around the drive (slowly, of course), I relented and let Dee out of the trunk. I posed her against the trunk of the car, and then let her ride in the front seat.

Once we ran out of pavement, I made her get out of the car and told her to walk into the woods, again posing for a few full-length shots before she disappeared into the wild.

• What will happen to Dee in the woods?
  
• That sun is sinking awfully low...will she have to find her way in the dark?
• Can we see the actual garter belt without the skirt?