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I win every scar contest. When drunken macho tell turns into proud show, I have a scar that runs for more than a foot from just below my ribs to below my hips. I can laugh it off, tell the story, win...

12 may 12

the only place to start again

I bled the minutes out of my mexican cellphone across four airports – PVR, LAX, JFK, YHZ. Frantic, nicotine and shitty bathroom soap slick fingers stuttering out SMS SOS’s. “Just ke...

11 may 12

arm party

30 dec 11

the catch up

{sadly, both my Minolta and my Canon AE-1 simultaneously have given up the ghost. Coupled with the fact I left my digital charger in Canada… I only have my iPhone.} We’re going to do a pi...

26 dec 11

leap.

This is not boy meet girl. I’m not sure what this is. Other than a giant leap, to a dream job in a wild place with a boy that has alternately held my hand and pushed me. Ladies and gentlemen. K...

17 nov 11

boys

19 oct 11

the first autumn light

{a handmade bed.}

05 oct 11

august

{all taken on the new to me Canon AE-1 on Kodak Portra film} And then I was home. And it is exactly the same, but different. It has shifted – to a spare bedroom, to half a grocery bill, to slee...

12 sep 11

the breaking

I would like to say that the light and the revelations and the peace stayed with me. But the truth is when I boarded the ferry in Tarifa after frankly ecclesiastical flamenco and topless drinking wit...

09 sep 11

the unbearable lightness of spain

The number of times I have tried to write this post is embarrassing. That it is no better than the other 100 times I have written it does not help. There is no perfect photo to go with the perfect st...

06 sep 11

of things in bottles

We drove to Maine on our way out here. While there we fell in love with each other, with the ocean, with deep fried Oreos and with Miller High Life. 2 years later, a friend brought us back a case of ...

12 jul 11

waves/grass

{all shot with the pentax k1000. a little more about these places on flickr} Catching up by photos – a little bit of my travels in the past months. PEI, the Bay of Fundy, and the warm, acrid ra...

08 jul 11 1 person likes this

catching rays

{more summer here, song thanks to miss moss} It’s been raining for so long. I think maybe two months. Or maybe one hundred years. We’re soggy and depressed and craving sunshine and warmth...

17 jun 11

foliage, food, feet

{foliage, food, feet all with the pentax k1000} Oh hello there! I’m not sure what happened… So much and so little. I had a birthday filled with good food and great adventure, there was 15...

01 jun 11

a quiet spring

It does not come with the gentle rain showers and lime green grasses of elsewhere. It is not borne with a smile and a light raincoat and the sing song adage of flowers to come. It rushes in here with...

11 may 11

this and that

{a photo jared snapped at lunch} I’ve been puttering around and spring cleaning the blog! There is officially a silly little “about” section up there now, and a lot of the broken li...

04 may 11

quiet times

{all taken with an early birthday present – the pentax k1000. more here.} These three photos say so much for me. Through the kindness of friends who recognized a girl in need of a break, I mana...

27 apr 11

spring breeze

Photographer Jamie Beck, via Honestly, WTF. These made my heart light, I know the feeling of that breeze so well.

20 apr 11

musical intermission – timber timbre

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGBEgL Xy6rU It’s rainy and cool here and we’re hiding inside with glasses of red wine and listening to the eerie sweetness of Timber Timbre’s new album.

19 apr 11

made/acquired

I made a resolution lately that for everything that I bought, I would try to make something I needed myself. It’s a good exercise in both limiting my consumption and flexing some creative muscl...

14 apr 11 1 person likes this

hushed

My weekends usually run Sunday/Monday, but due to my first sick day in years, I had a whole three days off to putter around the house and get ready for spring. Our weather finally changed this weeken...

13 apr 11

four corners dark – handmade film

I think it’s wise that these rolls are only 12 exposures, as might be hard to shoot an entire roll at once… but I think the results would be stunning. The Lazer film is so insane! Find al...

30 mar 11 1 person likes this

cloak and swagger

I received this storm cloak from Audrey at Black Market Baby about two weeks ago and have pretty much lived in it ever since. It is the most beautifully constructed piece of outerwear I’ve worn...

24 mar 11 1 person likes this

in public

{There are two ways of looking at things. Either you feel that a thing must be perfect before you present it to the public, or you are willing to let it go out even knowing that it is not perfect, be...

22 mar 11 2 people like this

Hello everyone! I have a guest recipe post up at Moorea Seal.. Pop on over!

18 mar 11

life lately

{more photos here} I’m not a big fan of winter. Coming from mid-western Canada, winter meant having your eyelashes and nostrils freeze together and your toes rattle in your boots like jelly bea...

11 mar 11

check in, check out – a month goes by

{the frozen ocean} If you have been reading here for almost any length of time, you’ll know I don’t often write about my life in plain words. It’s easier to put distance between me ...

28 feb 11

Musical Intermission: Oh Land!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5KgZK _dvXI I figure hey, if the Crown Prince of Denmark likes her, she’s good enough for my shuffly Thursday morning dance parties. Plus -- she’s adorable. Read m...

03 feb 11

kempt kitchen: roasted beet and balsamic quinoa

I will begin by saying two things. 1) I do not like quinoa. In fact, I never even took the trouble to learn how to say the damn word until some hipster hussy forced her knowledge upon me and said it ...

02 feb 11

weekend: check in check out

I’ve got a long weekend this weekend, and I’m having so much fun planning all the things I want to do! Dinners and drinks with friends, lots of reading, cups of tea and a Monday night din...

21 jan 11

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