adventure::treehouse

a day in the life, photographic journeys, photos, stories, thoughts, words

i slept outside in the treehouse.  because i wanted to.  for the experience.  with a mosquito net, so i didn’t get eaten alive at night.

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^ i slept outside although there was predicted thunderstorms.  that didn’t happen.

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^ all my stuff.  and my foot.  fabulous book: hope was here by joan bauer, peach for breakfast, walkie talkie although it meant connection to the world outside because mom insisted, glasses case, extra battery for dad’s macho flashlight, dad’s macho flashlight, duct tape flipflops, mosquito net.

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< is this too weird of an angle?  i rotated a pano.

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^ all my stuff.

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^ clara brought me a muffin for breakfast.   after mom told her too.  first, she came out with a muffin and was talking to me through the window.  but she wouldn’t give me the muffin, she just came out to tempt me, and, in her words, to make me come inside.

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^ me

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^ what it looked like from the outside

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^ 2nd breakfast

storms & cameras

a day in the life, photos, stories, thoughts, words

“hey melissa i turned off the computers cause it’s stormy.  i’m gonna go outside and take pictures.”

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^ umbrella, tripod, camera bag [really a purse- the one i call my duffel bag]

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^ street light

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^ afterwards:  french vanilla ice cream, cold hot chocolate–not chocolate milk, favorite kermit straw, photography magazine, book, camera

happy sad occasion

photos, thoughts, words

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^ ha, this has nothing to do with the happy sad occasion, which was the august 08 school of discipleship graduation (with gfa.)  this is the project i’m helping with.  researching selling barbies and hot wheels cars.

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^ the cake we picked up at costco

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^ during the graduation

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^ ice cream!  there was ice cream!  i don’t EVER remember there being ice cream for us to eat at a gfa event, except maybe at friday night prayer when there was ice cream with warm brownies, and when auntie betty had it for us at lunch.

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^ melissa dancing around with jenna

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^ rylee, jenna and asa all got balloons.  i got a balloon too, but i inhaled the helium from it instead of tying it around my wrist.

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^ micah was a little present