August 2010

silver jubilee

31 August 2010
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Who, other than Queen Elizabeth, would want this in their home?

water tower

30 August 2010
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I’m always amused when water towers are painted like something else… a radish, a peach, you get the idea.  When I saw this I wished it was painted like a hamburger.

oliver 1: pouting

27 August 2010
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We were playing cards outside, and Oliver wanted to go exploring.  To save him from, you know, being hit by a car, my dad tied him up. Oliver acted like he’d lost his best friend: put his face in his paws and wept silent doggie tears.

oliver 2: defiance

27 August 2010
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If you know anything about animal psychology — and I don’t, by the way, just making this stuff up — you can see the defiance in his body language:  paws dug into the ground, back slightly arched.

oliver 3: pleading

27 August 2010
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Here you can see the anchor to which he was tied…

oliver 4: resigned

27 August 2010
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Hard to resist that face!

grace’s toe

26 August 2010
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the big toe band-aid + the Belle slippers = strong fashion statement.

strange packaging

25 August 2010
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note that the nice lady in the photo isn’t wearing the headphones she’s supposed to be advertising.  we won’t judge her for that; looks like a stock photo to me.  I actually stretch like that every single day, and if I did so while wearing any type of headphones I’d be a tangled mess.

blackberries

24 August 2010
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Last week I attended a Renaissance Mamas event…  Yummy food, interesting conversation, and a short photo-shoot with fruit.  Excellent!

happy skunk

23 August 2010
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Gas station bathroom in PA. This was so close to the ceiling I almost missed it, and then struggled to stand on my toes to get a shot.  What caught my attention was the skunk’s happy face.  And then I saw that he’s wearing a diaper, which seems like a curious choice — there’s nothing [...]

happy skunk 2

23 August 2010
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To confirm that the skunk is, in fact, wearing a diaper, I got this very strange close-up.  Looks like a diaper to me.

cookies and milk

20 August 2010
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The upside of doing a photo shoot with a cookie is that when you’re done with the shoot, you can eat it — provided, of course, that nothing disgusting has happened to it and that you’ve remembered not to, say, put it on the ground while you’re messing around with the milk container.  Thankfully I [...]

monster mash

19 August 2010
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My dad brought this home from Scotland last year. Excellent packaging!

very important cone

18 August 2010
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Now why, pray tell, does that wet floor cone have the word flagship written on it? Was it the first cone purchased?  The leader of the pack? It’s all very mysterious.

mystery bird 1

17 August 2010
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Linzee hosted a super-fun bridal shower for Jaymee at a friend’s house in Laguna Beach.  I noticed this guy mysteriously stuffed in a hole.

mystery bird 2

17 August 2010
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so of course I pulled him out of the hole.  poor thing!  he looks a little dazed.

wonder

16 August 2010
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Kim and Allen’s baby chicks provided endless hours of entertainment for their kids, their friend’s kids… I love the look on Brenner’s sweet face!

perfect shade of pink

13 August 2010
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this is the door of a 57 Chevy coupe.  I know that because I took a photo of the info at the car show… don’t want to pass myself off as someone who remembers details when I barely remember what I had for dinner last night.  the car also had a curiously-named Wonderbar Radio and [...]

romeo & juliet…

12 August 2010
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samson and delilah… every time I look at this photo I think of the Springsteen song, Fire.   (Altho I prefer the Pointer Sisters‘ rendition of it).  Just felt like sharing that.  Back to the photo… took this in Manila a few years ago.  Things didn’t end so well for poor old Samson.  Not sure this [...]

oliver

11 August 2010
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GUEST PHOTO by Cara. I had the joy of spending a week with Oliver at my mom and dad’s house, while Dan and Cara (his owners) went hither and yon.  Cara took this photo yesterday; I love it!

man’s best friend

10 August 2010
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how cute is this!  I was a smitten kitten for my brother’s two pit bulls.   check out the site it advertises.

here 2 me

10 August 2010
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a former boyfriend of mine used to say, “come here to me….”  I found it endearing.

baby blue

6 August 2010
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seriously, how cute is he?

phone drawer pulls

5 August 2010
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I got a new phone last month, which meant waiting around in the t-mobile store for a very long time while the nice man took care of all the details.  I noticed these drawer pulls on their cabinetry.

mirror, mirror

4 August 2010
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My friend Robin and I visited her dad in the Hamptons last year, and although it’s nothing like my parent’s house, something about it reminded me of family, the past…. warm and nostalgic.

shark chum

3 August 2010
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So is that “chum” as in shark bait, or chum as in, save the sharks? We’ll never know.

fire & marshmallow

2 August 2010
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I love this shot, taken at  Katherine’s birthday party.