Photos a day

People look like their dogs I suppose.

Oscar stealing people's seats.

Photos a Day

A picture of me, now that the digital camera is fixed again, with a slighlty wonky nose and self-cut hair.

Oscar looking relatively coy for a bulldog. His nose is flatter and his hair whiter than mine.

Photo Flashback, 2006

Now that my digital camera is working again, here are some lost-in-the-aether photos from Herm and from Coventry 2006.



Silly sunglasses ahoy.

Wedding Planning - Dispatch No. 1

Two things to report:

I visited two churches today - Trinity Methodist and Central Methodist (my home church). I think it'll be best (money-wise and comfort-wise) to stick with Central, as it's a known quantity. We know the people involved and Rev. Easley is totally scriptable. He said that we can incorporate whatever we want and change the wording of the traditional service if we want. I'll get you a copy of the service as quickly as I can. Anyway, here are pictures of the church:


There will be Christmas decorations up - garland around the altar rail and wreaths up on the balcony. There will also be candleabras on the pews and candles in the windows (lots of candles). Other decoration is negotiable.

The other thing we looked at this morning was The Old Courthouse Wedgwood Ballroom. It is GORGEOUS. Here are pictures.


This venue is probably the most complicated option - we would have to set up rentals for all the dishes and everything as well as contracting a caterer (which is easy... we have a good caterer in mind who is free that day and has worked in this space lots of times). BUT I LOVE it. It's got like... twenty foot ceilings and it's four rooms in total - there's a double foyer area (with a place to hang coats), and a little crescent shaped room in a bay window. there's gorgeous wood and marble work. BEAUTIFUL.

I'll keep you posted on further developments. We're going to have Chinese food and talk about the option of having a Chinese Rehearsal Dinner (Do you like that idea? It's Jimmy's - that good Chinese place - I think you liked it).

This afternoon we're going to meet with Vicker Photography, and to look at Haub's Steakhouse as another option for the rehearsal dinner.

Another random photo

The yard in springtime

Random photos

New apartment!

Cracked out video from the McDonald's drive-thru.



A tour of our new house!

Domestic Fantasies: Plants

I bought these succulents...
To plant with this one in this bowl.
Pretty pansies.

Pink Petunia.

Cool lupines with water drops.


Lucy hanging out under the herb table.

Fungus on the Mill River

The flash makes for a rather horror-movie-like blue value, but the orange and yellow of this fungus - I think it's a Laetiporus sulphureus caught my eye. The blue haze caused by the flash plays up the bright color of the fungus, but it's also not unlike the dusky hue the woods took on that afternoon of one of my happiest days ever. We had been walking and talking and taking pictures all along the way and I knew that we would make it. I could wax poetic about brightness in the dark, but then I'd be likening our burgeoning happiness to a chunk of fungus
growing on a dead tree. It doesn't seem quite fitting.

The Laetiporus sulphureus is also called the "chicken of the woods," as it is apparently edible and very common. It grows on dead and decaying wood, in the summer and fall, usually. It also apparently has a strong, fungusy smell and a pleasant sourish taste. It doesn't quite work as an analogy, you see.

Also, for the record, this site is very useful for identifying fungi. This one, too.

14 January 2008: Snow Day photo EXTRAVAGANZA

This is what I woke up to this morning:

Thayer in the snow.

The snow was that really sticky kind that coated the trees. When I stood under the tree, there was this weird light. It felt almost like being in a lighted tent. Shaded, but somehow emitting or reflecting a weird light. Beautiful.

Memorial Church in the snow.

Flowers and snow.

13 January 2008: What I want right now...

Hendrick's Gin with a cucumber garnish...mmmm. (Daedalus.) (Also a random old photo.)

12 January 2008: More ME

A random picture to make up for me not taking pictures.... Me on my birthday at Dali.

11 January 2008: This is how I feel when you're not here

Dopey and Sad.

10 January 2008: Color

It's a very very depressing gray day, so I thought a picture of something colorful might help. These are tulips that Wiebke brought me the day she left. Very sweet. Anyway, we've had weird weather the last couple days. First there were a few really warm spring-thaw kind of days... days in the sixties where all the snow melted and left mud and mess everywhere. Now it's a "potential nor-easter" and it's been cold, gray, and pounding rain all day. Very cheerful.

I wish you were here.

9 January 2008: Modern Pastry

I love this wall at Modern Pastry, with the rough brick showing behind the shiny glass shelves and shiny foodstuffs.

8 January 2008: Il Panino with the girls

Here's me at Il Panino. Good food, as you know. Do you see that gorgeous ring on my finger?

7 January: The Laughing Mar

I almost named this one the laughing gnome, but thought Mar would take that personally. This was in Park Street Station and I liked it.

6 January 2008: Next year in Northampton...

...we'll finally go to the Tunnel Bar. I think we missed it both times we've been there so far. Also, I have a different, cheaper, better place for us to stay next time! I like taking little trips with you... Northampton in October was so fabulous...

5 January 2008: Politics at the pub

This fun banner was hanging outside Packard's, Northampton's sort of divey townie bar, which I frequented my senior spring because of their cheeeeap cocktails.

4 January 2008: Me Me Meeeee

Here's a weirdly skinny-looking picture of me at the Haymarket. I was drinking a smoothie called a "spanking." I do love ordering those. "Yeah, I'll have an espresso and a spanking, please."