Photo Challenge Day 15

Day 15 A photo of something you want to do before you die

this was a hard one for me. there are so many places i would love to see once or even one more time. i love to travel! but i thought i should go big for this photo challenge, so i really had to think about it. so... everyone knows i love a good road trip, and the Pan American Highway would be an amazing one to do! I think i would start in San Antonio and go south from there, all the way to Tierra del Fuego!

Photo Challenge Day 14

Day 14 a picture of someone you can not imagine your life without

ok, i cheated. i have 3 people i can't imagine my life without. it is funny, because when i met david i was so sure i was going to stay single. also i never really thought i would be a mom. i pictured myself living somewhere with a dog and a few cats, most likely south america. that was what i was working for when i met david 6 years ago. now look at me! that goes to show that you never know the twists and turns that your life will take you on.

photo challenge day 13

Day 13 a photo of your favorite band or artist

Henry Rousseau. I love the way he uses light in his pictures. I love all his jungle scenes. I love The Sleeping Gypsy. When I finally got to see it in real life (When MOMA was being remodeled and they moved some paintings to Brooklyn), i hyperventilated.

this is Radiohead. i love them. if you have never seen them live, then you have yet to live. Amazing.

Photo challenge day 12

Day 12 a picture of something you love

Since it said "something" i assumed i had to do an inanimate object. so i went for tropical paradise, it could also be sun, warm weather, beach... you get the main idea. I am a miserable person without these things.

Photo Challenge Day 11

Day 11 a picture of something you hate

I was going to say that "i hate hate", but it seemed like a double negative to me. so i chose ignorance. there is no reason for it. educate yourself, look stuff up, read, travel, go outside your comfort zone.

Photo Challenge Day 10

day 10 A photo of the person you have done the most messed up things with

this is Katy. I met Katy in graduate school when we were studying to be teachers. We have done some crazy shit together. Funny, because out of all my closest friends, she is pretty much the most normal of them all. go figure.....

Photo Challenge Day 9

Day 9 A photo of the person who has gotten you through the most

yep, that is me. i have a hard time turning to people for advice or whining about my problems to others. i just get on with it. Reminds me of a favorite quote: "In the midst of wonter I found within myself an invicible summer"- Albert Camus.

Photo Challenge Day 8

Day 8 a picture that makes you laugh!

this is Ruby at about 18 months. She has chicken pox (hence the calamine lotion on her forehead), and she is having chocolate ice cream for the first time. she is so in love with the taste of chocolate that you can pretty much hear the "MMMMMMM" just by looking at this picture.

Photo Challenge Day 7

Day 7 a photo of your most treasured item

i really had to think hard for this one. I don't really own too much that i couldn't live without. Sure there are some books, some photos, my camera, but if they were all washed away, i would replace them and go on. then i didn't have to look too far to realize that my glasses are my most needed and treasured possession. i am so blind, that if i lost them i too would be lost. thank the goddess for modern science!

Photo Challenge Day 6

Day 6: A Picture of a person you would like to trade places with for a day

I am assuming that this means time travel is possible, so i chose John Muir. It doesn't necessarily have to be him, but he personifies what I would like to be able to do for a day. I would love to be able to see the American West before it was taken over by highways, powerlines, McDonalds, even the BLM or NPS. To see it unadulterated, in all its glory, the way it was before we spoiled it.

Just think about it... walking through wilderness, no trail, no map.... never seen a picture or a drawing of where you are headed... you come around a bend in a river, or over the crest of a hill and there it is.... maybe it is the Tetons, maybe it is Crater Lake or the Pacific Ocean.... but to you, the explorer it is seen by you for the first time ever....

Photo Challenge Day 5

Day 5: A photo of your favorite memory

This is David and I after we got married! I was grinning the whole time, david says it was nerve-racking and still thinking about it makes him cringe! haha!

Photo Challenge Day 4

Day 4: a photo of your favorite night

i would probably have to say that one of my favorite nights was when i met my husband, but since there is no picture of that event, i had to go with another favorite night. Most of my favorite nights are nights that I spent camping, or in the woods, or maybe on the beach somewhere. I love sunsets and i clearly remember the first time i saw the sunset on the pactific ocean while sitting on kalaloch beach. I love those memories.... This is a photo from Breitenbush Hot Springs. I love and miss Oregon very much, and this photo reminds me of many nights that I spent at Breitenbush enjoying the cool nights, listening to the water, and smelling the forest all around. It is one of the places that made me feel part of it all, and so so small. It reminds me of my spiritual home.

photo challenge day 3

day 3- cast shot from your favorite TV show

My favorite TV show right now is Boardwalk Empire. I don't watch much TV, but this show is amazing. It is one of those shows that you can't wait for the next week, and you think about it when it is not on. I haven't liked a show this much since Northern Exposure or China Beach. Seriously, sooo good!

Photo Challenge Day 2:

Day 2: a picture of you and the person you have been closest to the longest

This is my best friend Kim and I in London in December 1990. We have known each other since we were in 6th grade, about 27 years. We can tell each other anything. You name it, we have been through it together.

Photo Challenge: day 1

all the cool kids are doing it. well, doing it on facebook. i rather do it here.....

day 1: a photo of me and 10 fun-filled facts!

1) i don't drink anymore. maybe one or two here and there, but my boozing days are long over.
2) i hate talking on the phone. so if i never call you, you know why. it isn't because i don't love you, i just rather write, or text, or IM.
3) i will never teach again. i love it, but with children i don't think i could do it. it takes too much time, and if i can't be committed 100% i won't do it.
4) i hate winter. there i said it, no more faking it!
5) i want to live in a purple house! or maybe even pink!
6) i wish i knew how to wear make-up and not look like a transvestite.
7) i can't wait to take the girls camping and hiking, but i fear that by the time they are old enough to do it, i will be too old to enjoy it!
8) spock- the ultimate male! seriously....
9) i dream of africa... one day i will make it there. i might not come back. that might be a problem.
10) this was supposed to be 15 facts, but since i hate these things so much, i turned it into 10!

empathy

i stand at the window in my bedroom and i look out at the churning north sea. a few miles down the coast from us is a nuclear power plant. we are not too far from the Highland Boundary Fault. Japan could be Scotland. This woman could be me.

march madness

spring spring spring spring! oh how i love it!! how i can not get enough!!!! i llove seeing the world becoming all fresh and green and sunny and warm-ish! the days are getting longer, i wake up to the sun peeking around the black-out blinds!!! oh bliss your name is SPRING!!!!!

happy and sick, that is me. i have had an evil cold for about 10 days now, but i am getting better thanks to modern medicine and the healing power of sleep. the girls had it too, although david seemed to ward it off thanks to his case of Crunk juice that he ordered online one night while i was still in Florida.

speaking of David, he just turned 35! yep, he is my young pup! for weeks leading up to the day he acted as if he was turning 53 not 35. you think he would take solace in the fact that no matter how old he gets, he is still younger than me!?!? but no. he did however get a smashing birthday present from his parents, thanks to my intervention. he got a chiminea for the back garden! woot! now hopefully we can have dinner in the garden this summer, maybe actually get the BBQ going this summer (unlike last summer) and have some friends over to enjoy our newly warmed garden!

oh, and i am thinking about writing. actual writing. like a book or something good like that.