Leap Year

Adriana was born in a leap year, in 2000, my favorite year ever I must admit!

So here's 4 things I'd like to do before the next Leap Year:

• visit Machu Picchu


• remodel the upstairs at the studio


• have 3 prints accepted into Nationals


• teach Lucy to walk nicely on a leash (lol)

What's on your list? Mine started as mostly places I want to travel, so you can trade the Lucy leash thing for the Terracotta Warriors if you'd like, but I don't think China and Machu Picchu will both fit into this leap year cycle, maybe if we stretch it to two...

the weekend

so I'm rested, rejuvenated, inspired... it's a great time! I was introduced to this great little sushi buffet in Natick, Minado, what a fabulous place! (even their website is kind of fun!) I could have spent my whole time photographing, luckily I didn't, because the food was so yummy, and I only had my camera phone with me! Between the Natick Collection with their divine shopping and fun art exhibit (a cool collection of dresses made out of soda bottles, eggshells, poetry and twine!), and Minado, and a weekend full of inspiring seminars and good company, it was hard to come home!

school vacation week...

The studio will be closed this week so that I can spend some time with my beautiful daughter, Adriana, my sister and niece will be visiting for a few days too... the end of the week will be spent at a seminar where I'll be being inspired...

What's your favorite vacation memory?
One of mine would definately be our first trip to England as a family, Adriana was nearly 3, and we spent a week exploring the Cornish countryside, searching for stones (circles, quoits, standing stones...) We were out in the beautiful country, away from all of the hustle and bustle of life, it was so peaceful, even all of these years later, I can still feel the peace... Being in nature is true happiness to me...

This image is Carreg Samson, from our next trip, and is actually in Wales on the Pembrokeshire Coast (which is spectacular!). Also, a wonderful journey, many hours spent exploring... My sweet family:

"come along darlings, mommy wants to find some stones..."

and off we go... How lucky I am! It's no wonder I want to spend every moment I can with them!!!

Enjoy your families, treasure every moment with them...

Happy Valentine's Day

wishing you all love...

the baby moose

I had an amazing weekend, it was one of those times where life is exactly the way you hope it will be... (okay, except for Sunday evening of course, but we'll ignore that for now... )

I was in New Hampshire, living life... skiing, snow-shoe-ing, enjoying friends... the scenery... the relaxation... the laughter...

While we were snow-shoeing along this lovely trail through the snow covered trees - birches, pines, etc., we were told there was a baby moose up ahead on the trail... and as in all of life, sometimes we choose to take a journey or path, and sometimes we don't... I choose the path of following the moose. I'd never seen a moose in the wild, and knew if I didn't try, I would always be sorry that I hadn't... After hearing he was running in the same direction I was going, I was getting ready to give up, and photographed his tracks in the snow as a consolation, but I couldn't quite let go... I knew I had to keep trying a little longer... About 20 minutes later I saw him up ahead, and my breath caught... He was young, and scared, and trying to get off of the trail but I think he was afraid... Everytime he came our way, we got off the trail to allow him to pass, but he'd see us and go back the other way where he'd meet up with some cross-country skiiers, and change his direction again... he didn't know what to do... My heart was going out to this enormous child, trying to make his way... Eventually, one of the times he came toward us we were well enough hidden that he came our way, when he was not 10 feet from me, he saw me and and heard my camera, and ran off up the hill through the trees... It was such a beautiful sight seeing him where he belonged, watching him galloping through the trees with such grace for such an enormous creature, I was happy that he was free of the path he was following and of the people he was afraid of... He found his courage to go where he belonged... What an honor it was to be in the presence of such a magnificent animal...

sometimes the journey is such a magical one...