this is so great. link [here.]
thoughts
partay
a day in the life, photographic journeys, photos, stories, thoughts, words
^ i’m loving how the balloons look, aren’t you? this picture was rather hard to take… just because it was into the sun and i was afraid i was like burning out my sensor or something.
^ clara’s cake. this is what results of cake decorating skills after 9 at night. yes, 33 candles although she’s only 14.
we roasted hot dogs and had chili for dinner, and smores and cake and ice cream for dessert.
^ i’m not sure what she was reacting to… but it’s funny.
we all smell like smoke now.
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houston
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^ bag of stuff. three cameras, 3 books (more in other bag), journal, list book, wallet, bible.
^ feet. driving.
^ creepy abandoned motel… and there was this guy hanging around it too.
^ highway poetry
^ houston skyline
^ trying to figure out the network connection with my awesome cousin randy… he was stop motion animating before his mom told him to do homework, which was playing his french horn. and now my other little cousin is watching youtube videos :)
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happy flea market day.
a day in the life, photographic journeys, photos, stories, thoughts, wordsit no longer seems like fall. it seemed like fall at the end of summer, but now it seems like summer again.
^ purchase of the day: vintage luggage for $2. !!!
don’t worry auntie steph. smiling with teeth pictures are coming soon.
^ vintage buttons. a handful for $1.
^ smile with teeth!
goodwill. craziness of tons of people. trying on things over my clothes because of the lines for the dressing rooms. finding sweet deals. everything being 50% off.
flea market. barely getting there and buying vintage luggage because i just had to have it. staying around this one booth because it had all the cool vintage stuff. paperdolls, letters, cards, envelopes. spanish money.
a.w. perry museum. going through an old house. being reminded of greenfield village. sack races. petting zoo. horses, chickens, goats, bunnies. some old(er) ladies tell us about spinning and grinding corn and coffee and about the courting candle. old russian ladies telling us that we should pick the pomegranites after we already had.
amy coming home. hearing about esoal and feeling for her and her bruises.
old town antique store. old maps. 70% off a ton of stuff.
taking tons of pictures.
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(re)made
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^ please disregard the slight grimace. taking pictures with self timer doesn’t always work so fabulously. anyway, i made this skirt out of an men’s shirt i got at a garage sale. from an idea from readymade magazine. it’s incredibly easy, just cut through the shirt below the underarms and make a place for a drawstring.
^ i’m really liking this hose thing.
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tracing patterns in the raindrops
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adventure::treehouse
a day in the life, photographic journeys, photos, stories, thoughts, wordsi 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.
^ i slept outside although there was predicted thunderstorms. that didn’t happen.
^ 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.
< is this too weird of an angle? i rotated a pano.
^ all my stuff.
^ 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.
^ me
^ what it looked like from the outside
^ 2nd breakfast
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camping, san antonio and seaworld
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^ all my bags packed
^ in the car
^ meeting the charlton’s at a gas station to give melissa to them for the weekend
^ out of the car and arrived at our destination!
^ the key
^ i’m not sure how they think that locking this gate will keep anyone out.
^ on the porch swing
^ at the pool
^ lily at dinner
^ at the best playground ever
^ merry go round
^ teeter totter
^ swings
^ merry go round
^ street. scenario for the place where i took this photo: “please don’t turn green, light, stay red…” [4 sec. exposure time]
^ claire, walking downtown in san antonio at night
^ street
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clara: ellie come on!
ellie: not yet i’m taking a picture of a man with guns!
^ the alamo
^ lights on the river/street
^ at seaworld on saturday morning
^ feeding the dolphins
^ sarah!
^me, sarah, sharlena
^ me [through a plastic bag, if you were wondering]
^ all wet
^ me and my seaworld cup. well, it was really the buscemi’s. because you get cheaper drinks if you have one.
^ waiting for the shamu show to start [me, clara, and claire]
^ shamu
^ lily in goggles at the wave pool.
^ they sat way up close
^ one of the shows
^ dad and lily
^ in front of the good photo op
^ claire with pirates
^ lily with my sunglasses
^ pictures of the pictures of them on the roller coaster
^ hey! seaworld has funhouse mirrors too!
^ claire & i ran around in the playground while the others went on a roller coaster
^ really excited about breakfast [on sunday]. we got up way to early.
^ our cabin
^ before leaving sunday morning
^ all squished into one side of the booth at lunch
^ in the car on the way home with sharlena
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“i wanted ellie’s advice but she goes off and tries on hats.” -clara
today
thoughtsget up at 7, go to gfa, work in fulfillment, come home, read the mysterious benedict society and the perilous journey, eat lunch, eat rye bread that i didn’t help make, make jemina cards, do a couple pages of health, laugh at silly illustrations, go to pool, come home, take shower, laugh talk and fold clothes with emily, help with dinner, laugh at silly man-fast stories,wait for amy, casey, and cameron to come, anticipate freckles and sunburn that will come with tomorrow’s car wash.
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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.”
^ umbrella, tripod, camera bag [really a purse- the one i call my duffel bag]
^ street light
^ afterwards: french vanilla ice cream, cold hot chocolate–not chocolate milk, favorite kermit straw, photography magazine, book, camera
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Elicia Wetstein 