"The Sweetest Thing"

March 2012 - Dallas, TX

Silk

April 2006 - Loch Raven Reservoir Park in Maryland

Drawn in by the calm, smoothness of the water.

Series

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November 2011 - Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA

"Gloop"

November 2011 - Newport Beach, CA

Feets 2

April 2010 - 12th floor balcony, Baltimore, MD

Reflection

November 2011 - Newport Beach, CA

"Tadasana"

November 2011 - Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA

Winged

November 2011 - Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA

Not a Flamingo

November 2011 - Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA

Midpoint

November 2011 - Newport Beach, CA

Harbor Day

While on "hiatus," (☺) I did have a chance* to snap some camera phone** shots... thought I'd share since the day was absolutely gorgeous.***

October 2011 - Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD

*How very much like me to say I'm going silent and then suddenly post again anyway!
**I haaate taking pictures with my blackberry since the quality is so embarrassingly bad... especially with all the hullabaloo over the new 8 mega-pixel camera in the iPhone 4S.
***Ugh laast days of warm, sunny, brisk weather before we all start hating Fall. See the morning's autumn post by Garance for more on this topic.

Conception

Once you have a thought in your mind, it can be extremely hard to get rid of it. It just grows and grows and you may think it's gone, but then it will come right back when you're not even expecting it.

November 2010 - Blue Man Group performance

It's especially true of doubts. Which are tied to regret. They're really like pre-regret, right? Regretting what hasn't even happened yet. We know ignoring the thought doesn't dissolve it. Mostly, we try to accept risk and uncertainty if we're ever going to get on with anything in life. But there are specific situations in which we do so... we suck it up and throw our cold feet into the fire.

June 2011 - Starbucks, Dallas, TX

(You're still following, right? Doubts- cold feet- ducks- ) which brings me - sorta playfully - to the Duck vs. the Rabbit illusion that was popularly debated in an episode of How I Met Your Mother. You might think you see a rabbit, but then one day you see a duck (or so Ted argues).

That's the thing with doubts. What makes you go from seeing a rabbit to seeing a duck?


Edit: both photos in this post are camera phone shots, so quality = poor. What is this blog turning into - a camera phone zone??

Quiet Beginnings

Certain moments remain forever vivid. It's these captured minutes of elegant calm that I'm recalling tonight. 

A favorite snapshot -- though the feelings and thoughts of then seem so distant now.

April 2006 - Loch Raven Reservoir Park in Maryland

Looking forward to this new project and sharing my dabbles in photography!