spc: another round of glam

it does not get any more glamorous that snake print, metallic gold pants.
yes, i own these.
yes, they are in my closet.
yes, i have worn them, although not for a while... a long while.
and the painted toes, well, they add a touch of glam, too.

more festive fun

The table was set in my wedding fine china (vintage, more than fine, but it was the first use of the good stuff) and mom and I ironed out and folded up the napkins real pretty. We added the flea market and farmers market $3 centerpiece and felt like we were really fancy, too. This table was set for kings.

By dessert my apartment was so hot that the kiddies were running around in their diapers, drinking coffee out of the fancy cups and eating lots of the good stuff, the whipped cream.



We started out all looking nice, and happy, and at peace... and most of the night was spent that way. :-) Those little ones bring enough energy to light up any room, and the laps around the kitchen island kept Willy the Flash quite busy.


Maggie looked for sucker after sucker to take her to see the "neigh, neigh". She'd walk over to you and melt you with her eyes, saying "neigh, neigh" until you agreed to take her down to see the horses. then you'd walk her back and forth between the two. She'd let one lick her and she'd giggle, and then be ready to move on to the other... and by the time you got back upstairs, she'd be looking for another sucker of a grown-up to take her back down.


Its been wonderful to have the whole family here for so long that we can really enjoy each other and feel like we're on vacation. I'm not quite ready for it to end...

happy thanksgiving

happy turkey day, from our house to yours! we have been exploring the farm in the rain, riding grown-ups and pretending that they are the horses downstairs (sam and ellie), cooking, cooking, cooking, and just enjoying one another's company.
may everyone be blessed with family, peace, happiness, smiles, laughter, joy, yummy treats, and togetherness today. wish you were here!

spc: glam

feeling glamorous in an old felt hat from a flea market that i just adore. it brings me a glimpse of glamorous times every time i put it on.

Shadows

The other part of my class assignment is shadows and I began this one on my walk with my dad, too. Traipsing through mud and mud and wet grass, I found a few good shadows to begin with. I have two weeks to take these pictures, so more may come... but its a fun start.

Photographs and visitors

Dad had arrived, after a six and a half hour delay on Thursday... and its great to have him visit. He spent Friday running errands with Todd while I was at work, and by the time I got home both boys were all tired out. We had dinner in and were all in bed about 8 p.m.
Today, dad and I explored here so that I could take my next assignment's photos for my class... or at least begin. One assignment is to take pictures that are 90% sky. Mollie helped with this cause by scaring up some geese for me.



This is our roofline here on the barn, so I guess I am sticking with the goose theme.


And of course, this is not sky, but I am always up for photos of random objects. :-)

fog, how i love thee

Oh, how i love fog. it doesn't close a whole day, like snow does, but we have had our share of fog delays already this year... today included. i was already up, yoga-ed, showered, dressed and drinking my coffee before i got the call, but it was still glorious to have a restful morning, finish up some work, take a walk with the camera before my photography class tonight, and just be mellow. now i am off to said class and to making up te guest room for dad's arrival tomorrow. i can't wait!

worth it

it was a long drive, but well worth the trip.
todd and i drove up to my parents' on friday after work, or rather, todd drove and i slept. we arrived just after midnight and after some homemade applesauce, we fell to sleep quickly... or in my case, back to sleep.
of course, we also woke pretty early on saturday and mom and i were off to some craft fairs at the local churches to look mostly at things that you can't believe that people spend the time to make, or worse yet, that people buy... but we did find a thing or two, including a book sale and a thrift store selling some skirts that made my day.
we all went out to dinner that night at a thai place in great barrington and then to see Borat. i hate to build this movie up for you, but it was a riot. all of us left with splits in our side from laughing so hard, and its not often that a movie can do that to you.
so we laughed and drove home in good spirits on sunday morning. rather, todd drove, and i kept him company (thanks, baby). these shots are of the traffic and the rain that held us up along the way.

now the week ahead will be filled with guest prearation. dad arrives on thursday to begin the thanksgiving festivities and we will have the week-end with him before the rest of the family arrives on monday. we have a new guest bed arriving on wednesday, new curtains to hang and beds to make... floors to clean and grocery shopping to do. i love the bustle of preparations and can't wait to have everyone here.

TILT/F

Things I love today...

I love the ability for a scent to take me to another place and time. I love transporting back to club med through the smell of my face lotion, and the surge of emotions i felt then. finding todd, new love, energy, sunlight.
I love transporting on the crisp fall air back to my grandmother's house and the wet smell of her yard and trees and creek. I feel little all over again and it makes me want to run down a dewy hill or go inside for warmth under a blanket, with a whole new set of smells.

This is where I am today... in another place and time.

fun, fun, fun 'til my daddy took the...

it was amazing to have kevin here. the friend who is up for anything. how brave he was to accompany us to a contra dance and then the fun of driving with me to the beach on a blustery november day. it was great fun, and you can read his account here. it felt good to be out and be social at the dance, even with the older "ecclectic" crowd that it is. and it felt good to walk around in the sand and breathe in the cold, fresh air.



and it definitely felt good to eat three pounds of french fried potatoes. and it felt good, for real now, to discover that i am actually quite good at ski ball.
and overall, very fun, very happy-to-be-here-now, week-end. thanks, kevin.



did i mention the fun?