too much of a good thing?

i went to costco yesterday.

funny. what didn't seem so big in the warehouse is enormous in the comparatively small scale of my itty-bitty abode. i might have to do something drastic. smitten kitchen's clementine cake just might do the trick.

or, i could just use it as a study in light and practice lighting techniques with my point & shoot.

or, i could just eat them.


help?

tag

so, i usually eschew participating in tags (sorry to those of you who have tagged me), mostly because i forget to do them. i stumbled across this particular flickr meme on a random blog and had to do it. i loved the look and the idea. so here's a little 'me', in found picture form.



1. Colorful stickiness: Erica at Stellenbosch, 2. Hot Chocolate, 3. Hanford Nuclear Site, WA, USA, 4. My purple all star for the first time at the park, 5. Paul Newman, 6. diet dr pepper at market street looking for love, 7. Te Rerenga Wairua - or Cape Reinga,Northland,New Zealand, 8. devil's food cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese frosting, 9. Photographer Angle - Kuwait, 10. A Ray of Sunshine, 11. A True Bookworm, 12. View from La Erita

Concept:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.http://www.flickr.com/search/

2. Using only the first page, pick an image.

3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker. http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php (choose four columns and three rows, also choose individual URL's)

Questions:

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. Favorite drink?

7. Dream vacation?

8. Favorite dessert?

9. What you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. One word to describe you.

12. Your nickname.

i tag: anyone who wants to do it.

the best laid plans o' mice & men

i meant to put my christmas decorations up tonight.

really.

what with christmas music saturating the airwaves, neighborhoods twinkling in multi-colored lights, peppermint hot chocolate and huge baskets of goodies from vendors at work, one is powerless to resist the beckoning call of long-boxed christmas ornaments languishing in the closet, right?

sadly, reality instead consists of 'happy halloween' blocks still parading across my mantle, ghosts & goblins co-mingling with the half-unpacked christmas angels on my tv armoire, and good intentions squashed by 27 hours of frenetic work already under my belt this week. methinks there's a little seasonal confusion going on here.

perhaps tomorrow will find halloween banished & christmas happily reigning.

perhaps. perhaps. perhaps.

wordless wednesday (not really)

Columbia River scene

photo credit: Sally Ashbrook

as many of you know, i grew up in the Tri-Cities (Eastern Washington). a land of sagebrush, wind & dust, it also boasts the green beauty of vineyards, orchards and other irrigated agriculture, thanks to the bounty of the three rivers that converge there. it exudes a beauty all its own--one that growing up there slowly taught me to appreciate. i am eagerly anticipating crossing the state of washington today--watching the transition from lush green forest and mountains, to high mountain meadows, to desert sagebrush giving way to irrigated farmland.

i was pleasantly surprised to find the above print in Sally's collection (available for sale at http://sallyashbrook.com/photography/prints_for_sale) as it instantly reminded me of home and summers spent on the river. she's having an art giveaway on her blog, Aprovechar, and i *hope* i might be the lucky recipient of this beautiful photo to join my other B&W artwork in my home. For more info, check her blog post at http://aprovechar.danandsally.com/?p=470.

happy browsing, and cross your fingers for me!