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

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camping, san antonio and seaworld

poetry, quotes, stories, thoughts, words

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^ all my bags packed

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^ in the car

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^ meeting the charlton’s at a gas station to give melissa to them for the weekend

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^ out of the car and arrived at our destination!

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^ the key

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^ i’m not sure how they think that locking this gate will keep anyone out.

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^ on the porch swing

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^ at the pool

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^ lily at dinner

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^ at the best playground ever

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^ merry go round

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^ teeter totter

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^ swings

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^ merry go round

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^ street.  scenario for the place where i took this photo:  “please don’t turn green, light, stay red…” [4 sec. exposure time]

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^ claire, walking downtown in san antonio at night

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^ street

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^

clara:  ellie come on!

ellie: not yet i’m taking a picture of a man with guns!

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^ the alamo

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^ lights on the river/street

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^ at seaworld on saturday morning

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^ feeding the dolphins

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^ sarah!

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^me, sarah, sharlena

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^ me [through a plastic bag, if you were wondering]

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^ all wet

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^ me and my seaworld cup.  well, it was really the buscemi’s.  because you get cheaper drinks if you have one.

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^ waiting for the shamu show to start [me, clara, and claire]

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^ shamu

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^ lily in goggles at the wave pool.

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^ they sat way up close

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^ one of the shows

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^ dad and lily

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^ in front of the good photo op

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^ claire with pirates

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^ lily with my sunglasses

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^ pictures of the pictures of them on the roller coaster

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^ hey!  seaworld has funhouse mirrors too!

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^ claire & i ran around in the playground while the others went on a roller coaster

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^ really excited about breakfast [on sunday].  we got up way to early.

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^ our cabin

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^ before leaving sunday morning

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^ all squished into one side of the booth at lunch

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^ in the car on the way home with sharlena

“i wanted ellie’s advice but she goes off and tries on hats.” -clara

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

best bookstore in the world

photos, stories, thoughts, words

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^ books

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^ more books

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^ melissa.  i’m realizing how amazing this picture would be if i cropped out the ceiling.  i’m gonna have to do that.

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^ melissa’s favorite little room

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^ amy’s chair.  yes, she is home! if only for the weekend.  she brought many fun/crazy/awesome  friends.

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^ my Diana F+ lomography book

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^ melissa’s dress is so perfect for taking pictures of.  she is too.  and, of course, there’s the guy with the cool beard.

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the bookstore, called Recycled i think, is on north locust street in denton.  it’s in an old opera house.  it’s really mazy, like the antique store in downtown carrollton.  but more so.

so this week my aim is to take photos on a roll of film… with only  my fisheye lens on.  yeah.

road map.

quilts and grass and rain

photos, stories, words

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^ i made a quilt for a friend who’s having a baby… and had a photoshoot with it outside.

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^ grass.

i’m so glad mom taught me how to quilt.

and, our garden seems to be doing okay after the big rainstorm we had.   the ground is still rather damp, though, so i didn’t water today.  and i try to miss the mud under the swing when i’m swinging.

a day in the life.

a day in the life, photos, stories, words

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^ these pants used to be… pants.  like, down to the ankle pants.  that must have been  long ago.

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^ breakfast: cereal, cantaloupe, and brown cow yogurt.

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^ breakfast number 2: eggs.

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^ baby quilt for a friend

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^ made while babysitting: gingerbread cookies, with [homemade!] vanilla icing, and eyes.

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^ they came in from the pool to decorate the cookies.  first they iced them, then the icing had to harden.  and they were watching it harden.  then they painted them with edible watercolor icing.

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^eating their creations

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^ one of hudson’s crazy ideas…  the pool was too cold, so he filled up this bowl with water, and was trying to make the pool warmer.

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^ reading and journaling in bed

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^ dinner