Just Some Photos...

Japanese Garden...

 

Japanese Garden...

 

 

 

 

Hanging...

 

Woody...

 

Beautiful...

 

The other day we went to Cannon Park and the light was just amazing...as is my dearest love...

Knots...

 

Blurr...

 

Gigi...

B&W Conversions...

 

 

 

 

Learning all about black and white conversions! So many options...I like the last one best...Now if I could only remember HOW I did it...

ACK.

Gigi...

 

Gigi is here visiting us for a few days...It's lovely to see her and she's letting me photograph her lots!!! O is loving his auntie...

I Really Should Get To Bed...

It's late and I have an early morning tomorrow...Joe leaves for the day and will wake up at 5:30...shortly thereafter the little one will too. I am just loving the quiet and time here in my room...with Pookie at my side, occasionally purring.

Gigi is coming in a few days for the weekend...I'm uber excited to see her and spend time together...I think we will cook together and go exploring a bit!

The house is finally coming together and feeling like it's ours...not bad for a couple of months work...I do although have to get my shit together and give away/sell many of our things...Maybe Gigi will help with that!

I have been seriously considering starting a new business...I'm doing my research and trying to learn lots. It would be a Child Photography Business...I just love taking pics of kids, and I think I could do this...I'm trying to tackle both mastering photography and learning Photoshop at the same time...We will see how this progresses...

Fall is here and it's just BEAUTIFUL...I love this place...have I mentioned that lately?

Missing My Friends...

I have been thinking a lot about my friends these past couple of weeks...particularly, DavidandCheryl, ChrisandVictoria and LeslieandGreg. I was thinking about them specifically, because being in this new place with no friends yet, I thought about friendships...Some of the friends I've had in Seattle, I've had for 20 years...and I was contemplating the fact that I'll be 60 when I acquire that "friend time" with my new friends here...but then I thought about how amount of time does not equal depth of friendship...and that's how I started thinking about D, C, L, G, V and CJ.

I miss you guys!!!!

There's This House...

There's this house around the corner from ours that I am in love with...I don't know my architecture, but I would describe is as a Spanish Colonial, (just to sound like I know my architecture...)...you can't see the house too well, as it's on a slight hill...and the house is obstructed (visually, from the sidewalk) by it's patio. All you can see is the garage, with it's lion statues, the patio, and part of the house, including it's brick roof. I LOVE IT.
I walk by it every morning, and if O and I go for an hour walk around the block, I see it again. I think it would be a marvelous home to live in...the gardens, or what you can see, have such potential...there are these gigantic urns everywhere...empty, calling for ornamental grasses and perennials...It needs a lot of TLC.
Today on our walk, we met a neighbor, whose home backs to this home...so I mentioned to her that I was intrigued by this home, and that if it ever went on the market, I'd love to buy it...(insert here Joe's, "WHAT???")
She told me that the house is abandoned...empty, and has been for about 3 years...the guy who owns it, owns another home across the street, which she said is also empty, (although I question this, as that one has a lovely yard)...I will look up it's current "value" on zillow and see if this would even be a possibility for us...it's a fixer upper, but it's beautiful!!!

It's August....

I have found a little quiet time although not much inspiration to write...Let's see what happens...

My "sanctuary" is almost finished...I love spending time in here...(as do the 2 boys of the house!)...I had this vision before we moved of a room that would make me feel like I am in my own world...and I think I am achieving it's vision! I miss all my photos and frames...but soon enough I'll find that box!!!

I haven't made any friends yet, but have a couple of mamas I really like...and soon we will get together to play and hang out. People here are very welcoming and friendly, so it's just a matter of time before I have some friends to hang out with...

I don't miss life in Seattle at all...I wasn't sure how this new place was going to be for my spirit, but alas it has been so wonderful! I haven't felt this internal joy for a long time...I feel inspired and excited about everything...

Yey.

Rose...

Trees...

Family....

Joe...

Art...