09/10/11 - Lori

Anniversary On The Water

09/09/11 - Lori

Treat
Slow Photo Day again. Cassie was miserable with molars this week. On the way home from work I had to stop at the store, so I treated her to an Elmo Balloon for her soul and Rasberry Sorbet for her teeth.

09/08/11 - Lori

Coming Home

09/07/11 - Lori

Charlotte
I hate bugs and spiders. (I don't know too many people who love them) Living in Durham, we have our fair share of spiders. They usually die for crossing into enemy territory. This little lady took up residence on my bathroom ceiling. First, she was too far away to reach without effort, so she lived to see another day. The next day, she was there and I noticed she looked pretty. She had not crossed into dangerous territory (over my head where she might drop), so I let her be. The day of this photo, she had found herself some dinner and I kept checking on her while she prepared it. I thought about Charlotte from Charlotte's Web as I watched her prepare her dinner through my 200mm lens. I announced to Jim that she's to be treated as an Ally and is not to die.

She's been there ever since - she keeps stringing her webs on both sides of the ceiling over my sink - I say, "Hello Charlotte" every time I see her. I'm a bit worried because she hasn't had a good meal since this Lady Bug (who's shell I found on my bathroom counter) - I am thinking of catching her a moth.

09/06/11 - Lori

Making The Commute Interesting

09/05/11 - Lori


Angles


09/04/11 - Lori

Slow Photo Day

09/03/11 - Lori

Still There!



Jim & I visited Central Park in July 2009, and I took some photos of this man that mean the world to me. Carmen and I visited CP again - and he was still there! I showed him the photo I took last time (on my phone), he was so touched. I kissed him on the cheek and posed for a photo with him as a memory.

09/02/11 - Lori

Finger Painting!
She's played with Art a bit at school/daycare, however this was our first adventure together at home. We had tons of fun - I loved watching her little brain realize that she was making something happen :)

09/01/11 - Lori

15 Months
OK, First - When did I get 3 weeks behind in posting?? (somewhere around the time I thought my laptop was gone for good)

Second - this was Cassie's 15-month physical, and she's about 16 months now - oops.

Anyway, one of the interesting things about taking er for her physicals is seeing how she acts in the room. When she was tiny, it was cuddle time while we waited for the doc. Then she started to use her hands, and she'd have a blast with the white paper on the table. Then - she started to realize there were things outside of her reach, but she did not know how to get them. Those were the challenging visits, because she didn't want to sit still. She still doesn't want to sit still, but fortunately now a book holds her interest just long enough to wait for the doctor.

9/18/11 - Carmen

So sue me...I have vices...


9/17/11 - Carmen

Moving day is rapidly approaching and I wanted to organize my stuff that is in storage.  Mostly totes all the way in the back behind the crap of 3 other people who just threw it in haphazardly.  So I basically had to empty the whole 40 foot trailer and repack it....fun!  I can't wait to unpack my books that have been packed up for over 4 years...yes they will probably be the first things unpacked....


9/16/11 - Carmen

Shantell and Lori by the fire for SOMEONE'S birthday...


9/14/11 Carmen

WWLT (what would lori think)...that goes through my mind every time I take a picture.  So when she said that I should join you guys here I said sure!  I'll forewarn you that most will be taken with my phone...I hope you don't mind.  Today...my first day...I had an idea...unfortunately my camera was overused and the batteries dead.  I wanted to take a pic of my new knee high boots up in the air....but this is what you get!

09/06/11 - Amy














"Ready"
Hair: cut. Nails (fingers and toes): done. Body: scrubbed. Face: facialed. Bikini: bought. All ready to go on vacation!

09/05/11 - Amy



















"Done"
So proud of my man. Here is his dissertation, completed, bound, and ready to hand in. 80 pages of Viking goodness. A momentous occasion.

09/04/11 - Amy















"Bacon"
It is a truth universally acknowledged that bacon rocks. What does not rock, however, is the limp, floppy bacon that is commonly sold in the UK (the closest equivalent we have is Canadian bacon - nice sometimes, but not all the time). For the past few years I have been on a quest to find the best bacon for frying up all crispy, American style, but to no avail. This weekend, I discovered pancetta on the bacon shelf of the supermarket, and was pleased to discover that pancetta is actually code for "American crispy bacon." Hooray!

09/03/11 - Amy















"Pair"

09/02/11 - Amy



















"Rose"

"To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose"

-The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry