hello & thank you

hi there. so yes. please, if you are in town, come say hello next friday at habitat. my first show. it seems so fitting that from the point john asked me to have a show (like two weeks ago, thanks for the lead time dude) that it has evolved into this. summer life. i have always always claimed to be a summer girl. quite fitting, don't you think? i say yes. i also would like to say thank you to everyone for all your support and encouragement. the mcclains for inviting me. david and beth for giving me the confidence push i needed, and sorting through boxes and boxes of film. beth for lending frames to me hours before leaving for africa. john, toby, jeremy, and heather for helping me narrow things down and arrive to this point. melissa for checking in on me to make sure i am still sane. whew. seriously. thank you. if you can't make it on friday, no worries. the show will be hanging for almost a month. aaaaand i plan to do a summer shop update with some prints from the show, hopefully by june 9th. last, but not least, i started a second flickr account to keep a portfolio of sorts. take a peek. hello summer!

that was nice

we had a great long weekend. the weather was ok, we made the most of it. the food was lovely, i tried my best to grill everything in sight. i also tried my best to tune out the whining and bickering by eliot and collette. i'd say i managed 85% of the time. as david said, "this is what i have to look forward to for the summer?" awesome. actually last night the three of them were happy as clams in the bathtub for almost an hour. apparently sharing isn't an issue when there is water involved. who knew? anyway my thoughts are as scattered as is my home with photos and negatives. i did find the missing negative i was hunting for (yay!) but have decided i like what i substituted better anyway. going to try to have a polaroid printed as sort of test run for the future. keep your fingers crossed. actually keep your fingers crossed about the whole thing. more photo fun tomorrow. happy monday/tuesday!

THIS IS THE DAY

i have been spending a lot of time behind the camera lately. and now, i am going to have to step out in front. put myself out there. i will be having a show in two weeks at habitat. whew. june 6th, first friday. come and say hello. i'll be the one at the end of the hall trying not to freak out.

very untoward

i have been on another jane austen binge the last few weeks. i can't hardly help myself. it is a sickness. my friend beth is my enabler. she supplies me with my fixes. i read for the first time northanger abbey and the watsons, both of which i liked, but they are low on my austen scale. the bbc just released to dvd the new versions they did for tv, and again thanks to beth, in the last two months i have borrowed and watched more than once:
persuasion (loved loved loved this bbc version. captain wentworth. so hot.)
northanger abbey (was so so, i hadn't read the book yet and didn't think it was possible for ms. austen to be so salacious. of course she wasn't)
mansfield park (the bbc one was kind of crap. i didn't care for fanny, but i still watched, and would watch it again i am sure)
mansfield park (uh hello. johnny lee miller and frances o'cconor? yes please. i had to make up for watching the bbc version by watching this one immediately after.)
sense and sensibility (so good, i have wanted to own this for a long time, and then i saw it at target for $4.75! i practically ran to the check out isle. emma thompson is a genius.)
emma (ok, i have to admit the first time i watched this, i didn't like it. but i thought in my binge, i should give it another go, and it won me over last weekend. so many great actors in this, and i really to love toni collette. and if we are being honest, i love clueless too.)
pride and prejudice (ok ok, i know there was all this uproar when this came out. but i am very pragmatic when it comes to jane austen stuff. i mean pretty much i am going to love it, unless it is totally awful. and i can honestly say that i love the new version just as much as i love the old bbc version. for entirely different reasons. kind of how you love your children. you just do. i have been crushing on matthew macfadyen ever since and right afterwards borrowed from, you guessed it, beth, MI-5 and watched the first two seasons immediately. i need to finish the rest soon. oh and i think i laughed more than humanly possible through death at a funeral. good lord. so funny.)
so yeah, i can obsess a bit, and i have a total UK bias. if it has brits in period costumes, i am game. or heck, even just brits. count me in. thinking about giving mansfield park and emma another read. why not, it's spread a blanket in the grass weather. which is perfect for books and water with lemon slices and little plates with snacks on them. you know it is.

*thanks sandy for the quiz link!*

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four already.

collette. how did it happen? how could you possibly be four years old today? i don't know. but i feel like if there is an age to bottle forever, this might be your year. you have never been sweeter and more loving than you are now. your hugs are so tight you fold your fold your lips in and shake a little bit with the effort. (they are great hugs by the way, if you can get one from her, do it.) everything is beautiful and you are not afraid to tell us. yellow is your favorite color. who could possibly argue with that? i know for a fact i never will. happy birthday my love. i know someday you will grow up to be a beautiful, smart, wonderful woman. but for now, i am going to sit back and enjoy four. ok?