Cookies, Walkies and Moonies

Decided to bake my squeeze his fave peanut butter chocolate chip cookies one Friday early in the month.  Here's my ever supportive and helpful Assistant Pastry Chef, who stuck to me like glue, hoping I'd "accidentally-on-purpose" drop a glob of peanut butter.  Pepper lost interest fairly early on and was snoozing in the livingroom.

"Hi mama! Iz helpin!!"  Isn't he just squeeee?  Who could be afraid of a face like that?

Om nom nom nom

The next day we took the pups for walkies on the trail to Doughnut Pond, in Sandwich.  I'd never even heard of this place, but my honey used to hunt and run his dogs here all the time so he took me.  It was a lovely walk, but due to our very mild winter, the ticks are still out in full force.  We were picking them off our clothes and the dogs. The next few days were pretty grim, picking ticks off them......and having them fall off, now swollen and the size of coffee beans.  *urp*  

Reflection in Doughnut Pond.

It's a really nice piece of land and I can't believe developers haven't made the town an offer they can't refuse.

Doughnut Pond.

Cool rock embedded in the ground.  It would have come home with me if I could have pried it out!!

My honey being all heavy metal and stuff.

Later that day, the moon made an appearance around sunset.

Sunset

There were clouds blowing across but I got this shot on the 'bulb' setting on my camera, which took the clouds out.

This is really what it looked like.  I like how the clouds look kind of rainbow-y in the moonlight.

Happy Valentines Day!

True Love Forever.

A fairytale 30+ years in the making.

He makes me feel sooooo good.

All these months later and I still can't get him off my mind.  Nor do I want to.

A sparkly, albeit heartfelt, sentiment.

Russell & Me (although he thinks the boy looks too anorexic to be him!). 

I love you sweet Bear, with all my heart and soul.  

A Coupla Cards, a Shell Thing and a Pretty Star

Thought I'd share a couple of new cards I made recently.  

The top one is a thank you card I made for Angie, using a vintage postcard of Mt. Desert Island in Maine, where she lives, and some ocean-themed elements.

Inside of the card

This one was for an old friend of ours, who is battling cancer. 

And the interior of that card.

My friend Barit went to Sanibel Island, Florida over the Christmas holidays and she brought me back a big bag of amazing shells.  Sanibel is known for it's incredible shells.  I made this with pink fresh water pearls on a piece of driftwood from White Horse Beach.

Whipped this off in about 90 minutes right after the snow storm.

A Spin Around the 'Hood

I love our neighbourhood.  So much to see and shoot!

I had to trespass down someone's driveway, past their house, to shoot this sign on the garage.   I admit to having a 'sense of entitlement' when it comes to shooting a photo I really want, even if it's on private property.

I was distressed that I was completely unprepared to capture this rabbit, which is clearly not wild.  I was on foot, with Pepper, several blocks from home and my car.  This was also taken a day or so before Sagan arrived and I knew that it would be impossible for us to foster a rabbit with a German shepherd in the house. 

I will never tire of this buoy look.  It's so quintessentially Cape Cod/New England.

I love this intersection.  I mean what are the odds that 2 streets named Washington, where I moved from, and Bourne, where I moved to, would intersect?

There were 4 seagulls but 2 flew off before I could get this shot.

You would think the town would want to clear off these wires and that giant nest.

This is the Christian Science Church in our neighbourhood, a few streets over from my house.  It's the cutest building with great diamond pane windows.

Reflection of the winter sky and tree.

Quiche and Kitsch

Marsha and I went to Cafe' Chew for lunch several weeks ago. It was my first time there and their menu is amazing.  I was having a hard time choosing, then Marsha pointed out the specials board and I spied asparagus & swiss cheese quiche with a salad and that decided it for me.  I love quiche. It was very tasty, as was the salad, which I believe used pico de gallo and shelled pumpkin seeds in it.  I assume the flower was edible but it was way too pretty to eat!  

She got the crock of chili with corn muffin.  We both scarfed down every last bit of food!!!

When I got home, the mail arrived with the kitschy Victoria BC mug that I got off ebay, shortly after the holidays.  In all the times I went up there, which was 5 in 9 years (plus once to Vancouver), I never bought a souvenir mug.  I started looking online for one, and found this listed on ebay.  I don't know how old it is.  There is a reference to a Fable Estate Cottage, which I never heard of.  Further research shows it was dismantled and moved to one of the islands years ago.  My fave part of this mug is Queen Victoria's "We are not amuzed" quote.  That really tipped the scales when it came to purchasing this.

I think it's too cool to use, and risk breaking, so it'll become part of my kitsch collection.

Sealand is also advertised and research reveals that it closed around 1991, so this mug must be from the 1980s.

Union Church & Cemetery

Carver MA - January 25, 2012

Light and Shadow

Love how the sunlight against our back door silhouetted the dream catcher in the window, against the drawn blinds.

And the sun also lit up the coloured bottles and shot glasses on the ledge in the kitchen behind the door.

Moon Shots

We had some incredible full moon nights in early/mid January!!  A lot of my friends on Facebook and Project 365 posted some amazing photos of it.  

I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it till one early morning when I let Pepper out at about 6:30, and saw it peeking through the trees.  I grabbed my camera off the table and shot this picture, without my glasses on, then went back to bed for a couple hours.  

That night, I was watching TV and I looked up at the door because something kept catching my eye.  I couldn't imagine what the bright white light was.  We do have a streetlight across the street but it's not that tall!  It was the moon!

So I went outside to shoot again.

Bad weather was coming in and the clouds were blowing past the moon.