a lil' of Will

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

~William Shakespeare

the blue hour

That time between night and morning & morning and night. It can be a photographer's dream...

hepburn inspiration

...from style and singularity.


"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others. For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness. And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

~Audrey Hepburn

map

“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”


~Ralph Waldo Emerson

bringing the outside in

just a cool little picture. and an excuse for not having enough time to sit down and write a long post.

mr. blue sky

Happy Valentines Day everyone :)

Today I woke up to a beautiful, clear blue sky out my window. I had to take a picture. And I was looking back at all my photos and seeing a repetitive theme of clear blue skies. So I thought I'd post them and share the beauty.

Have a great Sunday :)

the art of scrounging.

Dinner Tonight = 1 bowl Kraft mac and cheese (ew....but it was there) 1 bowl spicy yet tasty leftover beef stew, 7 carrots, 1 glass grape juice with 2 ice cubes, 8 strawberries, and 1 bowl mint chocolate chip ice cream. And thus is the art of scrounging when a proper dinner is lacking.

a song I'm listening to without end....

Song by Carter Burwell from Twilight.

Marvelous soundtrack.
Marvelous song.

The Brain - olson kundig project

"The Brain is a 14,280 cubic-foot cinematic laboratory where the client, a filmmaker, can work out ideas. Physically, that neighborhood birthplace of invention, the garage, provides the conceptual model. The form is essentially a cast-in-place concrete box, intended to be a strong yet neutral background that provides complete flexibility to adapt the space at will. Inserted into the box along the north wall is a steel mezzanine. All interior structures are made using raw, hot-rolled steel sheets."









This bizarre, seemingly too-goo-to-be-true building has made me an immediate fan of Olson Kundig, who I'd never heard of until about 3 minutes ago. I fell in love with the enormous mullion windows, then the wall-climbing shelves of books, and finally the beautiful piano in the center of the sparsely furnished yet awe-inspiring room. There is no hope for me. I will never be satisfied until I, too, have something like this.

a reading nook

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up
its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
~ Joseph Addison ~

palettes

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ~ Leo da Vinci

sharing, not cheating.

For the convenience of yours truly (who, these days, finds herself incessantly lazy and house-wandering prone) I'm posting pictures other people have already taken as subjects for my posts. What? You say with obvious disdain already in your voice. That's cheating. Well, lets think of it as -- borrowing. Or -- sharing. That's what the photographers of these beautiful (and much more vibrant and good quality, in comparison to my own right now...curse these unimaginative depths of winter) did via Flickr, and that's what I'm doing (with their pictures...) via my blog. Sharing, not cheating :)

So this wonderfully mouth-watering collection of pictures below is what I guess could qualify as an ode to my love of food right now. As will probably be mentioned somewhere in all the following posts for the remainder of this winter, my life is so dull presently that a good portion of my time I spend preparing, eating, looking at, or hungering, for food. Boredom does that to people.

Unfortunately though, the finances at the moment sometimes force my pantry and fridge into an embarrassingly sparse state, so the consuming of food can often be postponed until older brother returns with fast food I can mooch off of (much to his aggravation) or dad returns with random bags of groceries. However, sometimes a girl's just got to eat, despite the only options of a frozen waffle, a yogurt, or a slice of raisin bread.

(And why would I go searching for a collection of photos of frozen waffles, yogurts, and raisin bread? That wouldn't be pretty to look at at all. That's why I picked this one, full of pictures of food that I wish I could be eating. Ta da.)

and remember, sharing, not cheating :)