"if you mix afrobeat with Vivaldi you get Phil Collins"

Best quote I have heard all week. Said by this dapper man on a blog I love to peruse. There is something about street style blogs that let me get my people watching fix without feeling like a creepy creepster.

turn turn turn

So I feel like about this time of year I start to shuffle on my ipod far too much and never seem to find that one song that just strikes a chord with me. I think it might have something to do with the changing seasons, the upbeat songs that I listened to with the windows rolled down in the summer don't work with this new angle of the sun. It is one part melancholy, two parts reflective, with undertones of memory and things forgotten. You know of any songs out there like that? 

52 weeks

45/52

two friends
an ocean apart
post one photo a week
with no rules or themes
and no idea what the other is up to.
in a year we'll see.

things I loved about today

• having a good conversation in the morning instead of a quick good morning and see ya later
• dancing before 8 a.m.
  
• bowling and playing scrabble with Dorothy, Eugene and Pearl
  
• walking the U with Nan and Hannah and sneaking into neighbors gardens
  
• seeing how my pictures turned out long after I took them-the not knowing is what makes film so great
  

52 weeks

43/52


44/52


two friends
an ocean apart
post one photo a week
with no rules or themes
and no idea what the other is up to.
in a year we'll see.

(I am getting sad to see that this is coming to an end)

imagination

Sometimes when my eyes are closed in the shower I imagine a gigantic shark with its black hole of a mouth swimming right for me. I suffer soap burn just to get my eyes open enough to see reassuring tile and glass. I am glad I have an imagination-but sometimes it can be a real beast....
(this picture is completely unrelated but I couldn't bring myself to post a pic of a shark-then I would have to be scared of the shower and my blog.....)

magic

I wish I could have gone to Disneyland when it looked like this, and even better, possibly run into Disney himself. This makes me so very excited for my upcoming Disney adventure, when I am there I really do wonder if I am in the happiest place on earth.....

school

I must be harnessing my inner Hermione, but I am really hankering to head to school this fall. It is almost painful how much I want to sit in a class taking notes, or hide away in the library memorizing a stack of flash cards. Perhaps this dates back to the days when I would sleep with every book I owned, or when my sister would have to beg me to play with her instead of read. Some would call me a nerd, I would call me a nerd, but if I could still sleep with all of my books I am pretty sure I would.