Archive for 2009 October

We packed our bags on Friday

and headed North, up the NY State Thruway, and West, deep into the Catskill Mountains, where we found a quaint little 1830′s farmhouse waiting for our arrival. I’d been wanting to enjoy the cozy atmosphere of the mountains in the fall for some time, and was more than willing to drive three hours to do [...]

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Sometimes…

I think I spend more time playing with the photos than I do composing the blog post.  Sometimes the pictures are ok straight out of the camera, but they almost always benefit from a little tweaking. I recently discovered a way to obtain a warm, dreamy effect. And I have been in love with this [...]

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If I didn’t know better…

Remember this from 1.5 years ago?  It was the first time we’d had any major damage to one of our cars.  The door was replaced within a week, though, and all was right with the vehicular world. Well, if I didn’t know better, I’d say there was a god of van doors, and that he [...]

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Good to have a plan or three

So I wrote up a little bit about my two quilt projects that didn’t get very far this weekend, and my Plan C knitting project, too. But then I got so distracted by the episode of Community that I am watching on demand at the moment (multi-tasking, dontchaknow) that most of what I wrote was [...]

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Mornings and minutiae

It’s been ten and a half months since my first Project 365 ended. I took a picture of my feet every day for a year, if you recall. It was fun, but I was glad to see it end.  Now, after a nice break, I’m jumping back into the 365 ring with a new series: [...]

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