goodbye, july

July is already nearly over... I've been slacking off blogging lately, and that's because I've been slacking off photography. And I've not been taking photos because everyday has been so similar to the last day that it is very uninspiring to pick up the camera and find something new to shoot. I rarely take photos I don't like or don't want, so when I'm uninspired, I just don't take photos at all.

And Flickr has distracted me. It's so lovely that Flickr has shown me that people like my work, that more people are now following my blog - but the attention made me forget why I was taking pictures in the first place. To capture what my life is like when I'm taking those pictures. I'm not blogging for my readers, I'm blogging for me. I love getting on here and looking through my pages and pages of posts, and remember different stages in my life, and if I dismiss this downtime I have right now as boring and unworthy of pictures to document it, I will completely forget it existed. So back to taking photos everyday... and more blog posts. :)

Recently, my days have mostly been spent working on my college entrance stuff (paperwork and selecting transferrable classes), watching Korean dramas, cleaning, watering the garden in the evening, picking tomatoes and green beans, checking on our new teenage hens, looking at the unbelievable sunsets, watching TV at night (though now that we have to wait on a new Misfits episode, we're on a bit of a stall...)

Hopefully I will be enrolled in a class or two this fall. I've finally narrowed decision for a major down to Film Studies or Fashion Merchandising. Perhaps I'll do both - or a major and a minor. I'm not sure. Any of my readers do these majors in college, or know someone who has? Esp. at UGA?

Have a lovely night,

- caroline

just right

The weather has been just right for the past three days. Not at all humid, a steady breeze, in the low 70's. We've pretty much been sitting on the porch for two days straight. Today I read nearly a whole book, which felt so good. It feels like I haven't finished a book in years (that's not true, though). 

We could even open our doors and windows, shut off the awful air conditioner and revel in the cool - naturally cool - air. I wanted to take pictures to capture the loveliness, but I found it really difficult. Here are my attempts...

Photo by Quinn.

That is the birthday card I made for Mom. :) In honor of last movie, of course. It's really just a bunch of Potter-ish things painted with watercolors. :P

I hope you have a lovely night.

- caroline

happy birthday/harry potter

Mom's birthday breakfast scones! Which we ate the last of today... :) Mom's birthday consisted of scones for breakfast, lunch on the porch, playing with the kids, then later, watching HP7 Part I before heading over to Logan's and HP7 Part... TWO.

This year, Mom's birthday and the HP7II release date happened to be the same day. There was some fate going on there somewhere. Mom is such a loyal HP fan and it was so nice that the last movie's midnight showing landed on her birthday this year! I'm sure that it was also other loyal fans' birthdays that night, but who cares about them. :) 

We loved the movie. Okay, well not all of us loved it, but I know for a fact that Mom and I did. It was so epic! I won't go into a big long review, and I will say that I realize it wasn't a watertight movie, it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen and I will point out that it was only part of a whole, based on a complicated story. All that put into account, it was brilliant. Bloody brilliant. So many things I loved about it.

Anyway, happy birthday again, Mum... I'm so glad we got to see Harry Potter that night and I'm glad you are so cool that even though it was three thirty in the morning when we got home, you were like, wanna watch something? Hell yes. <3

Love,

- caroline

July's already here.

I guess it's really and  truly summer, isn't it? I don't keep track of days very well. I often call some of the spring summer and some of the summer fall and so on and so forth, so when it is actually summer, I question myself. Is it really summer? Yes. Same way with birthdays. By next January, I will be calling myself twenty, and when my birthday comes a few months later, I will be saying - wait, am I really twenty? In fact, I'm going to be in denial come my next birthday, and there will be many many utterings of "Am I really twenty? Holy Lady Gaga." I will be saying the Lady Gaga part because I hear it's all the rage and I want to be hip as I enter my twenties. 

Back to reality. Reality is a funny thing. I was thinking about it last night. I was thinking about reality and about night and about how your thoughts are on a different wavelength at night, they are very very different from what they are in the daytime. And because of that, we often write them off as unreal. But the night is just as real as the day. Sometimes, at night, I feel like I could accomplish absolutely anything in the world. But not usually in the day. Why is that?

Prepare yourself for some Lucy spam, because she's just so darn beautiful. And everyone already knows that I love all the babies to death, so I won't bother trying to weigh out the post with pics of the boys.

Now, here is where the fourth of July should have a place on my blog. However, like usual, I didn't pick up my camera during the holiday. Sara, Griffin and Logan all came over on the fourth and I just... didn't take pictures. Oh well. There were no fireworks, or fires, or crazy celebrations, just dinner and playing with the kids. 

Before I say anything else, I have to thank Christina for giving me some old yarn to make blocks for my blanket! I'm so grateful - I was completely out of yarn and Christina was so sweet as to dig around in her stash for me. I love it all! Thank you so much! I've already knitted two blocks. 

We finished watching Dirty Sexy Money. It was not a good show, but I have to admit that it was entertaining. :) Going back to Justified and Fringe will be very funny now that we've gotten a sip of Natalie Zea and Seth Gabel as completely different characters. Heh heh heh. We started watching George Gently, which is another inspector detective show, but it's set in the 60's. Very well done. Like a cross between Doc Martin, Life on Mars (<3), and Inspector Lynley. Anyone have any shows to mention? Sons of Anarchy, Dexter and Parenthood are on our list, so apart from those?

Okay, enough talking. This was a really wordy post... Have a lovely night.

- caroline

soft

The first three images were shot with Logan's 50mm macro lens... and the last few with Patat's L-Series 50mm at f/1.2.

Open publication - Free publishing - More 2010

This is one of the books I designed this week. It's just a collection of personal photos from 2010 - most of which you've probably seen on my blog. I'll post my Montana book next! :)

p.s. sorry for all the updates to this post! The viewer wasn't working right...