Back to work

Had a great day today & a great week overall. Next week I begin a full time job after quite a while focusing on health & working part time. I've tried to get the house together so it's easy to maintain & spent time in the studio and had the last few Jr. Mom moments.

I'm excited to get back into a groove. I have been daydreaming about what working can bring to the table in terms of resources. This year, especially, I've noticed opportunities I've had to pass up - just came across a photo workshop in Oaxaca with Mary-Ellen Mark this summer, as a for instance. It's been at least a year since we've travelled apart from much needed visits home. I miss working trips. I'm daydreaming now & that'll do. At least I can still track friends' trips in the meantime.

Can't tell what the weather will be like this weekend, but I do know that gardening is on the list of todo's. I will do a reading or two & again, weather permitting, we'll have a beach fire. Good weekend, everyone!

New photos - of old books

My friend J just got back from Shreveport & brought home a mess of kids books. I got to photograph them today - nothing great, just wanted to remember the cool illustrations. Here are a few of my favorites:

Sundays

Woke up with a desire to crack open a New York Times & then remembered how disappointed I am in that newspaper & in news in general lately. Apart from the upcoming election in France, the news was a bit too gloomy for a Sunday look see; the reduction in welfare & Medicaid is indicated in the increase in infant deaths, the ongoing issues with the dismissal of 8 US attorneys, the list goes on and gets worse.

I used to think that if more people knew something was bad happening, it would motivate folks to intervene. It may be more accurate to say that knowledge has little relation to what can be done to help.

So, no paper this morning. After breakfast, J got busy in the yard & has been out there all day. I've been inside, hanging new curtains and doing chores. It's so beautiful outside. We've got seeds to plant - vegetables & flowers. There are tulips out now, the dogwood tree is in full bloom and we harvested our first bunch of asparagus yesterday. There are so many things to do to get the ball rolling, not to mention we'll have our first actual harvest this year & will need to be ready to grab the food & share it.

Speaking of sharing, we have a plant we're hoping to have adopted. It's a pretty sedum, or sempervivum & it's crowded into a spot with rosemary & primrose. I have a picture of it below:



I've got a Territorial Seed catalog to pore over & dinner is almost ready. J is downtown so I'm getting the mashed potatoes & turkey meatloaf ready. We've still got spinach in the yard, that should round out the meal.

These last few weeks have been busy, with lots of change. I had been trying to schedule surgery and wasn't looking forward to it - I got a reprieve of sorts -
The doctor I'm working with has given me a clean bill of health & surgery has been canceled. That has sparked a big change - I can get back to work & all of the things that entails, I've been getting more active & honestly, I'm looking forward to rejoining the world in progress.

Last week we went down to a local park to have ourselves a beach fire. Hopefully, the first of many.

Spring is here

Just got back from Jr. Mom'ing with Paloma & Jennifer. We went to the park & P played on the swings & slide & practiced her balance. She did very well. Each day starts out super damp around here, but the sky was bright blue & the clouds were not obscuring the sun at all.

P at work:


I went out to windowshop for bulbs & plants for the garden yesterday. Between heading to a local nursery & pruning forsythia + magnolia branches to brighten our house up - I've got a real hankerin' for the beauty of spring. Since I'm not on the East Coast anymore, I'm asking folks back there to think of making the trek to Longwood Gardens, the botanical gardens on the mall in DC or the National Arboretum - just knowing someone back home may be going to those places warms my heart.

Here are two pictures of pretty plants out here:





That is all for now...