the first time i captured callee on my yoga mat, she kinda posed for me…
this time she was extra wiggly… movin’ all around on that thing, and bustin’ out poses i’ve never seen before… 😉
she’s all like, “namaste – mrrreow” … seriously though, she is sooooooo beyond chatty! the most talkative cat you’ll ever meet. one day i’ll get a good video of her talking and post it for you…
just some fotos from my little stay-cation last week.
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…i know, right?!
always.
oh, hi. just enjoying a macchiato on the porch… Continue reading
…for colorado, please.
we are on fire… again.
i hear it’s getting better, but a major downpour from the gods would be much welcomed at this point!!
i maybe have bounced around my apartment a few times dancing and singing along…
and alanis is just awesome – plus this song just makes me feel thankful for a lot of things…
and here’s callee – finding the only sunbeam in the house at the time :
she’s so damn cute!!
the temps were absolutely perfect last week – 70-80 degrees during the day and cool nights that require only a light sweater, but flip flops are comfortable. the smell of the grill lingers in the air, the frangrance from the various blooms waft from every angle, the sun is warm, the air is warm, the days are long… and that means i take lots of little walks.
here’s a few shake-it app inspired fotos i snapped last week while wandering around my ‘hood…
devouring the best pastrami sammy EVER – from masterpiece delicatessen in the highlands… my new favourite spot!!
my neighbourhood kind of reminds me of new york…
enjoying my first latte in about a year… {half caff, only – definitely iced!} Continue reading
i mean, i don’t miss waking up for them, per se… but i miss their beauty, their diversity, their colours, their peace…
every morning for about 4 months i got up and fotographed the sunrise. my schedule at work began to change so i stopped doing it… i’m sort of missing them right now because colorado has some of the coolest skies!
it’s artichoke season!!!
and thank goodness for that!!!! i wrote a blog or two about them last spring… i just love these beautiful babies. although they do take an awful lot of work to prepare for such a little amount of actual flesh… it’s SO worth it – the scrumptiousness waiting inside doesn’t quite compare to any other…
it got me thinking about how artichokes are kind of like us, like humans…
i know you may be chuckling thinking how the heck can i be like a green pokey vegetable?! well… the way i see it –
an artichoke looks like a flower.
just like us 🙂 Continue reading
happy mother’s day, judi!
i miss you more than there are words for. i celebrate who you were as my mother every day. on your anniversary this year, i was strong – no tears… i even went to work – i smiled and thought of your smile all day. but this week has been rough. i couldn’t figure out why my emotions have been so high… sometimes it just hits me, yanno?! i miss you more than ever, it seems. i’m a “big girl” now, and all i want is my mommy. i want to ask your advice, introduce you to people i meet, have lunch with you, buy you sweaters and scarves, make you smoothies, paint your fingernails, and brush your hair for you. i also miss giving you back-scratches. i know i always complained about doing that for you, but i would do it as my full time job now if i could – and nothing seemed to make me fall asleep like a back-scratch from you… i miss the littlest things. i don’t wallow in sadness when i miss you… i mean, it hurts – they lie when it says it gets easier with time… it actually gets harder, one just finds ways to cope. but i do find that some moments are extraordinarily harder than others…
i always say your death was “bittersweet” because i just can’t find another word to help me accept that it happened. even 20 years later – i don’t know who i’d be if it didn’t happen, and i don’t know how happy or healthy you would’ve been if it didn’t… so all i can really do is be extra grateful that YOU were my mother in this lifetime. that for 13 glorious years, you were the one tucking me in at night and making silly “bear” faces in the car on roadtrips to visit family. all i can do each year on mother’s day is remember the wonderful things you did for me as my mother.
i’ll close with a few of the reasons and memories i have that made you the best mom ever : Continue reading
if i stop and pay attention – i notice that love follows me everywhere i go.
the most interesting things seem to form themselves into a heart…
like chipped paint on a wall…
lots of heart-shaped rocks… Continue reading
i *just had to* snap a foto of these two parsnips that grew together like this…
they came apart, but went right back together.
one of the coolest things i’ve seen produce do, yet!!!!
LOVE!
do you know what a grain elevator is?! i didn’t until the time i was visiting indiana, fotographing a wedding… a very special wedding. my cousin, M married his lady, E and and her family has a farm – they are bonafide farmers! experiencing their farm first hand was such an absolute joy! mister T is one proud owner, and he knows his farm in and out. from hydraulic garage doors to magic hoses to ceiling snow, the place is just loaded with charm that encourage memories for years.
as i said yesterday, one of my favourite moments of all time was spent on this farm on that wonderfully warm midwest day in mid may. the rain came crashing down out of nowhere, but the sun didn’t have time to really leave so the air had that yummy glare to it that you just knew was going to create the most amazing rainbow once the clouds parted…
double rainbow!
my biggest fan anthony wanted to know the story behind yesterday’s “favourtie moment” shot. here it is. i walked through “attic winter wonderland” i called it – insulated craziness balance-beamed between one world and the next… we get to the end and mister T tells me to turn left and “climb in”… essentially, i am inside this box, just on the other side…
see that little box? i’m in one just like it… i’m just on the other side of the barn. 🙂 so after we got out of this barn, we walked over to the grain elevator. i was beyond scared, but also knew i really wanted to do this…
the grain elevator i walked up looks nothing like the ones in the wikipedia fotos… this was basically a giant ladder… and i kind of have this phobia of heights, and also a phobia of ladders – so this was a big feat for me! Continue reading
i love this foto mostly because it totally evokes so many emotions for me — i remember this day so well… and i can be whisked away to exactly this moment in time again when i look at this foto… i can just close my eyes, and i’m there…
the pleasing aroma of the rain, the sound of it dancing on the rooftop above my head, the glare from the determined sun somehow still shining through it…
it was a very magical experience, this moment… and i had a camera with me!
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how cool is the stove in my new apartment?! i don’t even own a microwave, so this is nothing short of utter awesomeness…
so retro… so classic…
complete with a sweet back-light!…
i mean, a gas range is pretty righteous anyway, but ya throw in some old-school style and that totally amazing light and what! – PLUS, not only do i have a sweet stove-oven, but that’s a toaster oven on top… so, i suppose i should start perfecting my baking skills…
have a great weekend!
my sweet kitty callee just LOVES my yoga mat…
mostly, she loves laying on it… when i seem to need to be laying on it…
but i’ve caught her doing downward-facing-dog once or twice now 😉 … isn’t she just the cutest thing?!
i mean, what else do you do with 16 inches of snow?!
i gotta say – it was fun to act like an 8-year old again. and listen, it’s not quite as easy as i remember to make one of these frosty friends!
have a great day! 🙂
i miss train rides…
the sound of the tracks…
the views from the window…
the sway of the cars…
wear some of these…
laugh at stuff like this…
and if you wish, eat one of these…
and be safe, ya’ll!
i love the shake-it app.
perhaps an oldie compared to so many of the constantly new amazing things out there now, but i am loyal to my shake-it app and i still love it… makes me want to think of a sweet project for my polaroid… anyway, here are a few of my favourite shake-it fotos from my days in the big apple…
manhattan, lower east side Continue reading
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