Left: Mo
This week's DD made me laugh out loud. I'm just curious what the owner of those pants walked away in? Maybe they didn't have time to put them back on because an important call was on hold down the street?
Jul 30, 2010
Jul 28, 2010
Portage Squeeze
Saturday was spent like a good, sunny Saturday should be...outside biking and exploring. Rach and I biked down to the ferry from my house and took it over to Vashon Island. We'd been warned by a few people about the hills, (and it WAS hilly) but that didn't phase us.
Top to bottom/left to right:
1. New frontier
2. Bike rest
3. Keyboard purse in a local shop
4. Rachel posing with "Cool Gary"
5. Cockatails from The Hardware Store
6. Self portrait
7. Girl biking at the stationary bike graveyard
8. Rach looking northeast
9. Red bike left next to tree in 1964, now some 6 feet off the ground
10. Abandoned shed by red bike
We ended up with a flat that left us walking up a really huge winding steep hill, and after about an hour a fellow biker pulled over to help us out. If it wasn't for him we would not have made the perfect timing to catch the ferry back. Yeah for good biker karma!
Jul 23, 2010
Darling Diptych :: Pleasure
Left: Me
Right: Brittany O
So the above picture is not the one I imagined taking when we chose this week's theme, but that is often how it works. I might imagine one picture and end up with something totally different after I mess around with props, angles, poses, ideas, ect.
My photo captures one of my top pleasures of summer. There is not much I'd rather do than lie out in the sun (with my SPF30 on of course) and read a good book, usually I fall asleep after a while because it's so warm...and maybe I've had a daiquiri.
Jul 19, 2010
Twenty under Forty: #7
Left to Right/Top to Bottom:
1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2. Chris Adrian 3. Daniel Alarcón 4. David Bezmozgis 5. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
6. Joshua Ferris 7. Jonathan Safran Foer 8. Nell Freudenberger 9. Rivka Galchen 10. Nicole Krauss
11. Yiyun Li 12. Dinaw Mengestu 13. Philipp Meyer 14. C.E. Morgon 15. Téa Obreht
16. ZZ Packer 17. Karen Russell 18. Salvatore Scibona 19. Gary Shteyngart 20. Wells Tower
I love finding different ways of exploring my love of reading. I found this list of young writers from the New Yorker and have decided it will be a fun project to read something by all of them. I started with #7: Jonathan Safran Foer. I have had a copy of Everything is Illuminated on my bookshelf for a few years now but hadn't read it yet because I had seen the movie first (which I LOVED), and therefore wanted to wait a significant amount of time before reading it, so it would have it's own impact on me. Generally I try to read the book first, but that doesn't always happen.
As for Everything is Illuminated, I finished it last night...and I double LOVED it! Oh, it made me laugh and it made me cry, sometimes both within only a few pages of each other. When a young American Jew travels to Ukraine to find out who saved his Grandfather from the Nazi's, there is a story of immense sadness and tragedy mixed with the beauty of what it means to be alive and aware, to live and to love, or at least try to love.
Jul 16, 2010
Jul 14, 2010
In love and blogging...in your nineties
When I read about this couple on CNN my heart melted a little bit. Harry and Barbara Cooper, affectionately known as PopPop and Cutie, have been married for 72 years! That's not even the best part...they keep a blog about it called The OG's (Original Grandparents).
It's great to see a marriage so strong after so many years.
Jul 12, 2010
He Took The Butter Off Her Knife
During half time of the World Cup yesterday, I walked through the street fair taking place next door to my friend Amanda's house. I love checking out all the different tents from different vendors, but I don't often come upon something that I really like adore. Yesterday I did! I found Bonnie Jones Photography, she's a local artist and she was displaying her work at the fair. I came away with a great little piece I'm saving for my sister (who doesn't read this blog, so don't worry) and her upcoming birthday.
I checked out Bonnie's blog, Explore Daily, and saw that she is currently working on a project called Journal Portraits. Having been a the kind of girl who has kept a journal on and off since 3rd grade (all stashed in a box under my bed), most diligently when I'm traveling, I find a strong connection to her images.
The above photograph "He Took The Butter Off Her Knife" corresponds with this entry:
Friday, January 4, 1946
Canada
"She was at the table one day and she reached her knife and helped herself to butter. And her husband took his own knife and stretched his hand out and took the butter off her knife with his knife and put it back on the plate. It was as though the poor thing couldn't have any butter. Maybe it was no wonder she became queer - and maybe she wasn't the only queer one in that family. That was a queer thing to do, to take the butter away from her, right off her knife with his knife."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*It made my weekend to find something like this in my own backyard, and it also gave me inspiration to keep working diligently on my own photography.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
