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Week 8/52
Getting to see my bestfriend after getting to spend time with her in a while was really nice. Went to a park, and took some photo's, then went and got a piercing, some coffee and food. That was a good day. Oh how I wish they lasted.
I'm so tired of disappointing people; oh well, life right? :b Easy come easy go.
Side note; In the background you can see two small figures. Those small figures are two young girls, who appear to be really great friends, just laughing and having a good time, without a care in the world. Being silly, spinning around, laughing and having fun. It makes me really happy. And even though you cannot see them clearly, or really make out what they are, I know, and to have captured something like that, is just rare beauty.
Taken on 02/22/2014
Posted on 02/25/2014
Hot sun alternated with big thunder storms again this week. The ants' aphid business is flourishing on certain bean plants and the two ladybirds I put there didn't seem interested (although one of them cleaned up a few greenfly from the lettuce).
Three other plot-holders took Brussels sprout plants off my hands and I gave the last two to my mum in exchange for the pretty yellow snapdragon (there for beauty and to attract beneficial insects). I started another batch of dwarf beans inside, 'Cantare' this time, and again most of them have declined to grow - too much water, perhaps?
Top row, L-R: French beans 'Cupidon', Asturian tree cabbage, Brussels sprouts plus baby kohl rabi, golden beetroot, climbing French beans 'Cherokee Trail of Tears' plus climbing flat bean 'Helda', peppermint.
Middle row: French beans 'Aquilon', Asturian tree cabbage, pointed cabbage 'Greyhound' plus a row of radish 'French Breakfast 2', breadseed poppy 'Sokol', pea shoots, dwarf runner bean 'Hestia'.
Bottom row: French beans 'Minidor', calendula 'Indian Prince', lettuce red iceberg, land cress 'Belle Isle' (still nothing) plus snapdragon, cultivated rocket, nasturtium.
Only mint harvested this week but the pea shoots are ready for cutting again now.
Olive, our sweet, beautiful, smart girl, turned one this week. We were lucky to have so many people help us celebrate. Olive got extra play time and snuggles from some of her favorite out of town friends.
She was still sick on her birthday and you could tell she was struggling during our special waffle breakfast but she perked up after a nap. She loved playing with all of her new toys and absolutely loved having a whole cake to herself.
On Friday she started pulling her ear and was super cranky so we took her in for a quick check. They thought her ears were looking better and after an extra long nap on Saturday she was full of life for her birthday party. The mystery of her ear tugs was solved on Monday at her one year well check when her pediatrician spied a molar popping up.
She's been extra fun this week and I think it's a glimpse of what the year will bring. For her party, we took down the baby gate that stretched across the long step leading down to our living room. We had turned it into a playroom for our baby guests and Olive loves the space. She practices going up and down the stairs dozens of times a day. After about 24 hours of experimenting, she figured out how to go down the steps backwards, feet first. It was scary to watch her slide down the steps head first but I knew it was how she would learn.
Stepping back and watching is a challenge for me. You want to save them from injury and fear and tears. But whether it's learning to climb down steps or learning that sometimes she will have to wait to get something she wants, I know it's best to introduce her to failure and disappointment in these small ways before life hands it to her much more directly.
Olive is so very expressive. She babbles to us in her own language while gesticulating wildly. She looks us in the eye and lectures us while waving her finger around. We're never going to hear the end of it when she starts talking.
So it makes sense that the first words she says and routinely repeats correctly is "uh-oh" and "ow". Her little voice is sweet and soft and every time she says, "uh-oh" I swear my heart can't hold anymore joy.
Last week was our last weekly chalkboard update. There have been lots of lasts that I didn't notice until days or weeks later. Babies change into toddlers so incrementally that sometimes you miss the chance to mourn what is left behind. As I was working on the new format last night, it made me sad to think about not seeing her in front of the chalkboard every week. I was tempted to just keep at it another year but I know it's better not to. Last year, all she could do was lie or sit on that bench, now she does so much and her weeks are better expressed by a picture that captures that.
Paris Fashion Week 4-7 July, 2011
Shows Haute Couture: July 6,2011
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
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I actually had a few I liked this week, but I chose this one for my project. I'll probably be uploading one or two more from this shoot though!
Thanks to my sister Angela for holding the camera and tolerating my instructions on angling, etc. I promise I will get a remote soon.
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The other half of my closet.
I still need to replace the clothes rod with a metal one, and I need to hang a shoe rack in there too... I should also put in some hooks in the back and get two small battery powered light to stick on the ceiling for some light.
Here's a "before": www.flickr.com/photos/elissamae/2858002493/
I uploaded a version of this to my stream a couple of weeks ago, but it was so perfect for this theme I had to use it. I have edited it a bit and gone with a black and white version this time. It is a sculptured chair from our Botanical gardens that has arms, legs and even a head.The previous image and an outtake are in comments.
Hadn't much time for the picture today (maybe I should take the pictures during the week instead on the last day -.-), because I was editing the musicvideo from the band called Zero Gravity!! Yeah, it's the band where I play the drums and you can watch it in the next few days on youtube!! So I'll post the link when it's online ;)
Speaking of musicvideos, here is an awesome one I discovered this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcps2fJKuAI&list=LL7X1jy2Rzc7...
So...have an awesome week!
I've been joking with my friends that with Easter approaching, I was having post traumatic stress flashbacks. Last Easter Olive was 10 weeks old and I'm pretty certain it was both when we hit rock bottom and when things started to turn around the tiniest of bits.
She weighed a little over 8 pounds and her reflux was getting worse. She rarely slept anywhere but on one of us. I remember the next week asking her new gastroenterologist if it was normal for a baby to cry so much. I tried to sound nonchalant when I squeaked out, "We have to hold her when she's awake or she'll cry. That can't be what normal babies do, right?"
Of course the doctor told us politely that all babies were different. No comfort to this mama who was nearing the end of her rope. Before we left for Marion, Olive and I had reached a nursing regression. What had become pretty comfortable and routine now was something that was painful and that I dreaded. I thought that once you got over that first month, nursing was no longer a struggle. No one had warned me that there would be setbacks and frustrations along the way.
For our trip to my parent's at Easter, I went out and bought a Rock n' Play because I heard it was a miracle worker and I really needed a miracle. It didn't help our "sleep only on a living being" nap situation but it did give us much better nighttimes. And best of all, she wasn't waking up to crib sheets covered in spit up.
But the one thing I'll always remember about last Easter is my mom and I getting into a near argument about what sort of baby Olive was. Grandmom said she was somewhere between "textbook and angel". I said she was grumpy and high needs. I guess my mom saw Olive's potential and knew what the future held.
A few weeks later Olive was on a new reflux regimen. She stopped spitting up quite so much. She could tolerate a little more solo time. She stopped taking every nap on us. We made mom friends. And just a month later she was unbelievably more happy, smiled all the tim and was always ready to play or be read to. It all changes so fast.
A year ago I could not have envisioned this Easter. Our happy, beautiful daughter playing in the sun, splashing in her water table, digging through her basket. She runs from room to room. She walks up to everyone, tilts her head, waves her hand and says "HI!" She signs and says stop and then a few seconds later yells "Goooooooooooo!"
I was overwhelmed this year with gratitude. Lucky to have such an amazing daughter who makes our lives so much richer. Thankful to have a fabulous husband who is also a great father. Awed to have grandparents who are so involved in our life and who love Olive so very much. My dad worked for weeks to clean out my brother's old room and make a nursery for Olive. My mom put together the cutest basket ever for her and had lots of her favorite foods on hand. My brother and his family made the long drive from Atlanta to be part of Olive's second Easter.
We are lucky beyond description. If you ever have a baby, and find that those first few months are harder than you expected. Or that maybe you didn't get the baby you had imagined. Don't be fooled into thinking that your today is also your future. Your future will surprise you in the most wonderful ways.
Al-bin and LUDU.
Al-bin and LUDU.
And yeah, LUDU got a boyfriend. FYI, he came from Muscat. :-D
Thanks to Bijoy Jacob for gifting me her boyfriend.
It has been a long time since I've come up with a tabletop. I traveled with LUDU and Al-Bin all around the terrace to get a good shot. But the harsh lighting didn't produced good result. So, I ended up in tabletop. But now, I think that this looks better on a tabletop.
Week 3 of 14
Oct 12-18
Late again, maybe one week I will get it on time. I have a lot more from this day, you will see it. V-neckrules.
Strobist: 580ex II camera right thru umbrella and with ebay wireless trigger.
Even tho its almost week 40 now, i´ll post one from some time ago couse i have been lazy posting here on flickr lately.
It´s been so busy here lately but it looks like more relaxed weeks ahed with the baby coming and all. Let´s say relaxed as a relaxed can be with a baby in my life.
But i will be more active here in the deep pool of photography from now on!
Pétur Gunn out :)
I keep a journal for Olive and in it I write what we did that day, milestones, what her favorite things are and lately, funny stories from the day. She's so full of personality, spunk and opinions. I don't think she could be any cuter, but of course, tomorrow she'll prove me wrong.
Dinner has become one of my favorite parts of the day in our house. We've taken the post and tray off her high chair so she sits right at the table with us. She helps me set the table by bringing her plate, fork and napkin to the table. Then she climbs up by herself into her chair and waits for dinner to be served. We eat together as a family every night. We didn't always do this and sometimes it's not very convenient considering how early her bedtime is, but I'm so glad we've made it work. She eats whatever we're eating and she generally eats it enthusiastically. Now that she is mostly done teething (for now), her appetite has definitely surged and it's fun to watch her gobble up the food that Ryan has prepared. We talk about our day, sometimes we sing and almost always Olive is funny and charming. Lately Olive does not like it when Finn eats her food, which is quite the turn around from how it used to be.
One day this week, Olive particularly enjoyed her dinner but she was ready to get down and play. She asked for more and since she'd already had two servings at the table, we refilled her plate, put it at her little table and let her graze on it between running in and out of the screened porch. Many helpings later, it appeared she was full so I gave her plate to Finn to lick (is that gross?). Olive ran in from the porch, saw that Finn was licking her plate, turn to me with her hands pressed against her cheeks and her mouth in a shocked O and then spun around and stomped over to Finn. She waggled her finger at him, said no repeatedly (along with some other jabber, he got an earful), snatched the plate away and marched it back to the table. Then she looked up at me at me and signed "more". Jab, jab, jab went her finger into the palm of her hand.
After wishing and hoping and pushing and prodding, Olive has decided that she really likes books. It started with Goodnight, Gorilla. She liked to read it after her nap and she would ask for it to be read 3-5 times in a row. I brainstormed and researched other books along the same vein that she might like and we began reading Dear Zoo and Hand Hand Finger Thumb. Within just a couple of days, Olive began enjoying all books. It's the only activity she'll stick with for 30 minutes or more at a time. She likes to point things out in the book and "talk" about what she sees. She'll make animal sounds when she sees an animal she recognizes and when we talk about something that we've read about, she'll run and grab the book to read. She likes to sniff Duck and Goose's feet. It's so much fun.
We decided to go in search of Joy this weekend and what better way than a family outing to the beach. This is the girls trying to throw their dad in the water.
Today was the first day of school holidays and we had a great day, breakfast picnic at the beach, watched some whales frolicking in the ocean, then headed up into the the hinterland for a rainforest walk and back to the beach for a fish and chip lunch. Thank you 52 group for the inspiration. Outtakes in comments.
Week 1 - 1-7 January 2016
Having a play with something I got for christmas, A Lego "First Order Special Forces Tie Fighter"... Takes me back to when I used to love playing with Lego. More next week.
For TP52, theme for the practice week is "Old". Our youngest had a difficult night and fell asleep on the sofa wrapped in a blanket that belonged to her great grandmother. It dates from the 60's and has been passed down to us and is still used regularly.
This has been a terrible week for weather and very unsettled. When I was walking in the woods, the floor was a marsh with countless puddles. This reflection of the blue sky shows that the sun did occasionally appear. The last picture of my 52 project and thank you all in the group and others for liking and commenting on my photographs. See you in 2024.