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Last week in pictures.

Hi. I’m back. And I think a week of doing nothing but reading, eating, sleeping and sitting on the beach has turned my brain to mush because I’ve been utterly incapable of stringing enough words together to make a logical blog post. But I wanted to let you know that I’m back. And it was [...]

Our office: Before and After.

It’s here! The day when I finally unveil our home office to you. I know I’ve been going on and on about it for months, but it’s really been quite the labor of love and a gradual acquiring of all the pieces we wanted in here. It started off as a storage room, really. As [...]

Deck: before and after.

One thing I never expected about buying a house was the expectation from others that we would also buy flowers, when the time was right. Have you ever noticed the flower culture out in the ‘burbs? Because it can be brutal. It’s very “oh your flowers look…. nice. What are you using on them? I [...]

Haymarket.

I went in to Boston yesterday to have lunch with an old friend, and afterwards found myself wandering around Boston’s famous fruit and vegetable market. I did one pass through just for photos, and second one through to actually buy stuff. And by stuff, I mean everything my arms could possibly carry before breaking off [...]

Bonus shot: New Orleans.

We sat in the small park surrounding this statue for nearly an hour, just watching the passersby and listening to the live jazz from the bar behind us. It couldn’t even be called a park really. Just a shady gathering of benches around a statue that we loved. The late afternoon sunlight pouring through the [...]

Big Easy.

I didn’t whip out the ol’ picture taker as much as I would have hoped whilst in New Orleans but I did manage to snap a few gems between DSLR and the handy little point n’ shoot.

Rockport.

Saturday found me, the husband, and my parents (visiting for the weekend) in Rockport, Mass. It was a blissful afternoon of wandering one of the North Shore’s loveliest seaport towns and these are my favorite shots from the day. I really need to make a point of getting out and about with my camera more [...]

Leftovers.

Not much time for a thoughtful post today. The holidays are about spending time with family, not blogging (in my book). But alas, I can’t give up on a challenge. Especially not when I’ve come this far. Just wanted to quickly to share this photo I took yesterday of my leftovers sandwich. The best leftovers [...]

Friday dreams: Kauai.

I know it was just a couple months ago that we got back from our honeymoon in Kauai but it’s not hard to miss PARADISE when the weather is starting to move from chilly to just really f-ing cold and you’re trying to save money on your gas bill because you’ve never HAD a gas [...]

Friday dreams: New Orleans.

I know I’ve waxed poetic here in the past about New Orleans, one of my favorite cities in all the world, but lately it’s been on my mind a lot. For one thing, we’re already thinking ahead to Jazz Fest for next year. This time, we want to recruit more friends and family to come [...]