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Not exactly a flattering self portrait this week, but I just had to post this one because I love mary’s hair in this picture. We went to the beach this morning, trying to take advantage of all the last days of summer. It was incredibly windy, almost enough reason to turn around and go home, but we made the best of it. After trying to swim and getting whipped around by waves we stayed curled up in towels on the beach.
I did my best to stay upwind of emma’s sand play. She was busy making soup for all of us. I don’t know how many times I ran into the water to rescue her from the grip of the waves. I could tell they just wanted to swallow up a little girl in a pink bathing suit. After several choking, spitting, water-up-the-nose episodes she gave up on wave-jumping and stayed on dry land.
I love mary’s hair standing straight up in the wind, and the crusty patches of sand in her hairline. There is sand everywhere. After post-beach baths, there’s a small sandbar forming in the bottom of my tub. Once I’m done posting here, I will peel off my bathing suit and add to the collection.
Oh, and where did all those wrinkles come from around my nose and eyes?
Not exactly a flattering self portrait this week, but I just had to post this one because I love mary’s hair in this picture. We went to the beach this morning, trying to take advantage of all the last days of summer. It was incredibly windy, almost enough reason to turn around and go home, but we made the best of it. After trying to swim and getting whipped around by waves we stayed curled up in towels on the beach.
I did my best to stay upwind of emma’s sand play. She was busy making soup for all of us. I don’t know how many times I ran into the water to rescue her from the grip of the waves. I could tell they just wanted to swallow up a little girl in a pink bathing suit. After several choking, spitting, water-up-the-nose episodes she gave up on wave-jumping and stayed on dry land.
I love mary’s hair standing straight up in the wind, and the crusty patches of sand in her hairline. There is sand everywhere. After post-beach baths, there’s a small sandbar forming in the bottom of my tub. Once I’m done posting here, I will peel off my bathing suit and add to the collection.
Oh, and where did all those wrinkles come from around my nose and eyes?
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Dan and Emma are outside building a swingset. It is quite the family excitement. Dan, who is a carpenter, has been working on the project for three hours now. I can’t imagine what your "average" man must go through to set one up. Although, I’m not sure dan is using the directions…Emma has been outside observing the progress from the beginning. She’ll flutter off to the sandbox, come back and check in, or play with the boxes that the swing set arrived in. At one point, when she had propped the long narrow boxes on top of each other to make an impromptu slide/seesaw, she announced that we could return the other swingset because she liked the boxes better. If only….
I’ve been playing around with my camera lately and I took a few shots of flowers that Emma picked from my martha stewart-inspired cutting garden. It is mostly full of zinnias and cosmos, with a few renegade sunflowers pushing through the other flowers. I have about three blooms left out there, I think. Emma can’t walk past the garden without ripping one off. They are scattered around the yard and in makeshift vases around the house. I’m finding zinnas everywhere. This is a shot of a few that showed up on my kitchen counter last night.
I’ve been playing around with the light settings on my camera, which explains the intensity of color. (although they are very brilliant). I’m also including a blurry shot of an American Goldfinch that was perched on my sunflowers eating seeds. When I got back from finding my camera, the female had arrived. But by the time I got the settings right to take the shot through my kitchen window they were both gone. In the meantime, this was the best shot I got. But I’m ready for next time they show up.
Dan and Emma are outside building a swingset. It is quite the family excitement. Dan, who is a carpenter, has been working on the project for three hours now. I can’t imagine what your "average" man must go through to set one up. Although, I’m not sure dan is using the directions…Emma has been outside observing the progress from the beginning. She’ll flutter off to the sandbox, come back and check in, or play with the boxes that the swing set arrived in. At one point, when she had propped the long narrow boxes on top of each other to make an impromptu slide/seesaw, she announced that we could return the other swingset because she liked the boxes better. If only….
I’ve been playing around with my camera lately and I took a few shots of flowers that Emma picked from my martha stewart-inspired cutting garden. It is mostly full of zinnias and cosmos, with a few renegade sunflowers pushing through the other flowers. I have about three blooms left out there, I think. Emma can’t walk past the garden without ripping one off. They are scattered around the yard and in makeshift vases around the house. I’m finding zinnas everywhere. This is a shot of a few that showed up on my kitchen counter last night.
I’ve been playing around with the light settings on my camera, which explains the intensity of color. (although they are very brilliant). I’m also including a blurry shot of an American Goldfinch that was perched on my sunflowers eating seeds. When I got back from finding my camera, the female had arrived. But by the time I got the settings right to take the shot through my kitchen window they were both gone. In the meantime, this was the best shot I got. But I’m ready for next time they show up.
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I finally finished the bag yesterday afternoon, after an episode of seam-ripping. Right away Emma filled it with library books so I had to take it back and do a little reinforcing on the handles. I really like how it turned out.
I love this next group of photos and I couldn’t choose just one to post. So I’m posting them all. I like the progression of the shots. They are from my kitchen floor, and might explain why it takes me about three times longer than it should to get dinner on the table.
I finally finished the bag yesterday afternoon, after an episode of seam-ripping. Right away Emma filled it with library books so I had to take it back and do a little reinforcing on the handles. I really like how it turned out.
I love this next group of photos and I couldn’t choose just one to post. So I’m posting them all. I like the progression of the shots. They are from my kitchen floor, and might explain why it takes me about three times longer than it should to get dinner on the table.
