got up early one morning and took some photos of this tree flowering in the park across the street. I really like how the colors come out with the holga. 

is anyone watching the robin hood series on bbc? I am loving it, I think it is one my favorite folktales. And the retellings are always fantastic.

right after I snapped this with the holga, someone came in and wanted to be a part of the photos.

so I took this with the weltaflex…her lounging on the bed

I started taking notes with the dates, sometimes the times, and an idea of what the image was, so if I need to know specifics then i'll have some ideas. Also dropped off four rolls of film over the weekend, so I should have more beds soon. I'll be putting some more of the new bed shots (six) up today on flickr.

I hope everyone had a good easter. I spent it with friends, so it was a blast.

I will leave you with a couple links…

David Buckingham. I saw his work a couple of weekends ago and I loved it. It is simple and bold. Don't forget to check out his backstage area…working through the metal. The pieces are huge live and the work is really visually tangible.

And trish grantham has a new site. Her work in person is much more amazing. The resin and her style gives it more depth live. Make sure to check out the bilboard she did under commercial in the gallery section. How fun must it have been for her to see her work up so large. She has some of her smaller pieces up for sale.

Both trish and david have a layering and a process with materials that create a depth that is lost from the internet, because it is still cool when you see it online, but it really rocks when you see the work in person.

more beds here {there are five new images}…we also got a new chair when the folks came by, it is not for sitting, rather it is for the Boy’s stash of clothes…you'll see in the future.

tomorrow another word and friday a painting, until then a sneak peek with my feet in my 'studio' {aka balcony}.

liz is doing 1000 crane project…pass it along. 

happy tuesday all! 

breads from the breadbar…when I wrap them in the morning they are so soft…I want to eat it all…I think know bread might be one of my down falls.

I found this green shirt in the bottom of my drawer this morning. I guess it is a good thing that I needed to do laundry. it might make an appearance again for a st. patrick's day drinking marathon.

first ticket of the day…I love the ticket punch. I think because of all the restaurants that I have worked; we never had a ticket punch.

you would think that I would have some photos of the cheese since that is were I work, but they never seem to turn out. Something about the light and the camera makes the cheese look unappetizing. I think it is also because we wrap them in cellophane…they will never look as beautiful as this. 

{I have been painting…you don't know how happy that makes me…words and more on the way!} 

we {the boy and I – not a royal we} were taken to play some golf with a witty & wicked wonderful friend. We didn't keep score, but we didn't hold anyone up on the course, {considering two of the four players hadn't ever picked up clubs and they other two players hadn't played for way too many years} I think we did alright. Although I was pretty scared when we started with everyone watching you at the first hole. But the company was to great and the day was too perfect to stay scared.

I feel like california is a color film place. Where as new york city was a black and white film place. Maybe it is the sky…there is so much more sky to see here. Or maybe the black and white covered up some of the dirt and grime of new york city. It hid her flaws better. I am sort of partial to black and white, I think because I dream in black and white. I have to process more things quickly in color. Change the way I look through the viewfinder. But Union Station…lends itself to black and white. These were taken after seeing my brother off on the surf rider train.

a new job, lots of people, lots of cheese…pays for my film right now

I love impromptu dinners 

tamar is always making new animals…love her dogs

{because of liz's write up sf:apartment therapy wrote about year of beds}

Having trouble sleeping again, but I can find beautiful things on the web like ben tour, {i wish there was more to his site - but there is an interview here} who is having a show in town that opens tomorrow. I love his colors, they are quite unexpected, {for me} but they work so beautifully.

Speaking of beautiful…mav has her Idea Project, which is thoughtful and quite and powerful all at the same time.

she is a sweet little weltaflex…isn't she pretty?

She needs a bit more clean up, but I ran some film through and I like the effect. At the prompting of lisa s and gwen I am doing a year of beds. The light coming into my bedroom is fantastic…it creates different moods depending on the time of day. I take the photo after the last person (usually the Boy) is out of the bed. So sometime it is early in the morning and other times it is in the early afternoon. I never make the bed, but the Boy does, so if he gets in there before I take the photo the bed gets made.
I may be a little mia because later this afternoon I am picking up one of my younger brothers from the airport. He has been in Japan; he is a bit of a traveler. I am excited to see how his experience in Japan was.

I feel a little like Ragni's album is a fairy tale come to life. But old school fairy tales where things didn't always turn out quite right in the end. (those were my favorite) They did the album with a graphic novel illustrated by Karl Kerschl. The images and music compliment each other in a simple, quite and lovely way. (found via drawn!)

I have been thinking about another series after I finish out the remainder of the circus images that are either floating around in my head or have made their way to sketch form. {I need to get some of these images out of my head. Maybe that is another reason I feel so off balance. Their are too many images floating in my head…I wonder.} I think Ragni's music is the perfect companion to the idea. It is based around this painting.

But first the words…

I am feeling like I can't get my feet. Every time I feel like I am settling in something I get knocked back. I keep falling down to get back up, eventually I know the falling will happen less often, but to make myself feel a little better I made my favorite cookies. It is a chocolate cookie that you make on the stove…easy and quite satisfactory.

made me smile in spite of myself::
a father and daughter matched. he wore green madras shorts with a burnt red plaid shirt…she wore a green flippy skirt with awesome layered green knee-high socks and a burnt red zip up hoodie.