Makes Me Happy

February Photo A Day

This is Plaza Mayor in Laguardia, Spain. It is a fairytale of a place and we sat for many hours watching the people of this village pass through. If I close my eyes, I am there, sipping this wine, feeling that leaning sun, listening to the surprising notes of song.

Self Portrait

February Photo A Day

Contemplative and half-shadowed. Not quite reflected but reflective. Sometimes colored. Sometimes muted. Sometimes veiled. Against brick. Behind glass. Always wishing to be good, to be kinder, to be brighter, to be alive to the world. Protesting a tendency to wither. Unfurling. Becoming. Happily caught in a moving, storming, windswept swirl.

Front Door

February Photo A Day

Taking the theme quite literally today. This is our front door. And an engagement portrait from a few years back. 

Photo Credit:

My amazingly talented friend who photographed our wedding, Katie Burnett

Sun

February Photo A Day

Button

February Photo A Day

I save pretty things. Ribbons. Buttons. Flowers. They come from gifts that have been given to me where care has been taken in the wrapping. I always think I'll use the silken pieces of others generosity to gift my own presents. But they sit together in tangles with the yarn and thread and knitting needles, the tools of all the abandoned projects that looked more beautiful when they lived inside my head. 

Still, I save them, for a someday. 

Dinner

February Photo A Day

Since I've been photographing every move Little O makes these days, I haven't been photographing my dinners as often as I used to photograph them. Tyler, however, still busts out the complicated recipes. We just eat them very quickly in between screaming fits or feedings or diaper changes.

We ate this lobster dinner on New Year's Eve, before the little one came. We cooked the live lobsters ourselves. We put one lobster in the pot, placed the lid on top, and just when I was about to turn away...the pot moved. That was a precarious moment.

It all turned out okay.

I apologize to all my vegetarian friends.

10am

February Photo A Day

10am. We dream of spring.