Happy Valentine's Day Bonne St.Valentine Fijne Valentijnsdag
Buon San Valentino Glücklichen Valentinstag Veselo Valentinovo
Feliz Dia De Los Enamorados Sreken Valentajn Suksan Wan Valentine
1. :heart, 2. Heart Flock, 3. In The Heart Of The Leaf Pile, 4. ,,,,CuoRe....., 5. Sempre e Per Sempre - Always And Forever, 6. Has anyone touched your heart?, 7. Heart, 8. Firey Heart, 9. Sailing into destiny ... closer to the heart ♥
Some red, white and pink loveliness in honor of Valentine's Day! (I can never resist a picture of a cute animal!)
1. another match point, 2. with love (365/65), 3. Mushroom lover, 4. Someone asked for Pink...lol, 5. Mitza, 6. love, Alice..., 7. Not Flowery Knickers., 8. Beautiful Dahlia, 9. Feuilles de Thé
It's Dia de los Muertos yet again and I am thinking of all the family that I never had the chance to meet.
Quien con la esperanza vive, alegre muere. He who lives with hope dies happy.
In honor of meeting my father's side of the family for the first time just in July....
The wedding of my dad's parents, Eleanor and Pete. They died well before I was born and I only have a few pictures of them. I think I only have two of them together.
My grandfather as a little boy, somewhere around 1919, with his adoptive mother, Mary. This was in Keene, NH. I love this picture. I think it's a horse in the background. Maybe a cow.
Mary again with her husband, Burpee. Yes, Burpee. No one knows where on earth that name came from but for some reason it was a popular name in Nova Scotia (where he was from) at the time. Someone in Nova Scotia told my dad it may have had to do with Burpee Seed Company.
There's no close Neaves relatives left in the Keene area - I am the last Neaves for this branch of the family. What is ironic is that I am not biologically a Neaves since Mary and Burpee adopted my grandfather. So, the line really died out in the 1960s. Everyone I met in July were relatives of my grandmother.
1. Dia de los Muertos, 2. Mexican Paper Flowers, 3. Ballet Folklorico Performers, Dia de los Muertos, 4. Dia de los Muertos, 5. detail of newest paper cut for Dia de los Muertos / Halloween, 6. oakland "dia de los muertos", 7. Dia De Los Muertos Festival, Los Angeles, 11.01.10, 8. IMG_1864, 9. paseo de los muertos bunting
Have a fun and amazing Halloween!!
1. Halloween Cookies, 2. Halloween drinks, 3. Happy Halloween, 4. halloween altered art star, 5. Project 365 - 90/365, 6. Pumpkin cookies!, 7. Halloween ornaments, 8. Halloween bat cappuccino art, 9. Trick or treat...
People are doing such luscious things with canning - peach butters, salsas, Moroccan preserved lemons...
It really makes me want to go out and get a canner and start preserving more things, before summer ends!
1. Apple Preserves, 2. Salsa and Pickles, 3. Home canned crushed tomatoes, 4. Chutney Time, 5. preserved lemons, 6. preserved, 7. Apricot Preserves, 8. Flander's Preserves, 9. peach butter
Still thinking about my trip, so, I chose some of my favorite Flickr photos from places that I visited. Seeing all the pretty towns and villages and all the trees kept making me wish I lived back there....until I left the a/c and remembered that it was almost 100 degrees out and that it also snows! For now, I'll keep my memories and maybe plan a trip in the fall.
My great-grandparents were married in this church (second row, first pic)!
1. Town Office, Deerfield, MA, 2. Essex, CT, 3. Covered Bridge, Greenfield, MA, USA, 4. Charlestown Church 2, 5. Vermont Barn, 6. The Village, 7. Bellows Falls, Vermont, 8. Court House, 9. Vermont Barn
Happy Independence Day!!! I hope you have a wonderful and fun day! Even here in San Francisco it is a warm and beautiful day and we might even be able to see some fireworks tonight before the fog comes in!
1. ice cream cone red white and blue, 2. red white and blue buttons and thread, 3. Red, White and Blue, 4. red, white and blue, 5. RED WHITE AND BLUE, 6. Red-White-Blue, 7. Red,White & Blue !, 8. Red, White, and Blue, Ajijic Front Casa Door, 9. Patriotic Kitty
I've been feeling a bit of...ennui lately. Between the rain continuing into June and looking for a job and being on a budget, I haven't been doing very much creatively for a long time. The weather finally turned nice this week and I've been feeling the creative itch again, so this morning I pulled out all of my fabric and started to think of some projects to make. I love just looking at the fabric all folded and pretty. Today I am inspired by all the lovely bunting pictures on Flickr while I think of something to make with all the scraps I have.
1. fabric banners, 2. Bunting, 3. bunting, 4. Gingham Bunting, 5. Union Jack Bunting, 6. Bunting in Autumn, 7. Fabric Bunting, 8. Polka dots bunting / stipjes vlaggetjes slinger, 9. Bunting for Risa of ParTea Planner
In honor of St. Patrick's Day and because I am trying to research my Irish genealogy, I found these beautiful photos on Flickr.
1. Kylemore Abbey, Ireland - Mainistir na Coille Móire, Éire (+reflection!), 2. Ireland #1, 3. Ireland: Monasterboice Celtic Cross, 4. Ireland, 5. Ireland, 6. Ireland, 7. Ireland, 8. Ireland, 9. Dreaming Ireland
I did get the chance to visit Dublin and Belfast a couple of years ago, but aside from the trip from Dublin up to Belfast, I didn't get to see the beautiful Irish countryside and these photos make me want to return to Ireland! I'd love to visit Galway, where I know one of my ancestors was from. I think I might wait until I know more about where the family was from so that I can really travel and see where they were from.
I went to go see The Tourist the other day for a bit of silly fun and was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting much because of the horrible critic reviews, but with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, how can you go wrong? The plot was a bit weak, but the movie was gorgeous. Ever since I saw it, I can't stop thinking about Venice. I went to Venice about 10 years ago and absolutely loved it and it's definitely one of my top three places that I have visited. It was so much fun wandering around and getting lost in the labryinth of little streets and eating After Eight flavored gelato. And yes, I totally took a gondola ride, which was fun but probably equivalent to riding a cable car in SF, and no, I didn't let any pigeons land on me in Piazza San Marco! Eww!
1. Venice by Night, 2. Venice, Italy (NASA, International Space Station Science, 03/15/07), 3. rialto bridge, 4. Sunset over Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, 5. Venice, 6. Venice, 7. VENICE, 8. Venice, 9. Venice
