when in Rome

well, you know how this goes. but there is something so pleasing about a group of adults basting themselves with brine and butter up to their elbows, ripping through cherry-red shells to get at a mere toothful of meat and roll their eyes in bliss. we are really quite simple creatures.









some (myself included) are a bit more transfixed by the spectacle than any real desire to dive right in...





though don't worry, i definitely ate my share. you don't want to get these people riled up about their lobster, not at a moment like this.

most magnificent

this house.



this is the kind of place that i fantasize about. this place belongs to a lovely couple named Dinsmore, and it was here that Ethan and his family stayed many many years ago when they were looking for a place to live en route between one exotic location and another. there are many lovely vacation homes like this that sit vacant most of the time...it just takes the right attitude and no small share of courage, apparently, to coax some of them into handing over the keys. someday, my house will look like this.











all those windows. all that wood. angles and light and old, quiet spaces. trees and gazebos.







the sweetest guest cottage.







there are too many photos to load you up with here. i may get around to doing another post, until then head over to my flicker to see them all...

{peek!}

snowbird, as much as you get until i get home and can get a very good friend to do a proper photoshoot...but we've been enjoying each other, this sweater and i!

more water

anatole took some pretty awesome photos the other day.











...and more! hm, i wonder when it's time to buy him his own camera...

and there was a lot more water. different pond this time, similar results.










(artsies)







since i refuse to take my camera out of its series of waterproof bags while i'm actually in a kayak or canoe you get no pictures of the giant loon and her baby who were our pretty constant companions, of ethan swimming from one island of rock to another, nor of the many islands themselves. i have to leave something to the imagination, after all. cheers, mates!

hi. (from Maine)

it's all about the water



i mean, ALL about the water.







and maybe some of this...





it got bright, we got really really wet, and we all went to bed tired and happy. vacation is the best!

queen anne and the sunset

at my mom's place some time ago. hello, internet.

{barn}

subtitle: my new lens.



my mom bought me a VERY early birthday present (pressing need and whatnot), my new 50mm f1.8 lens. ahhhhhh. everything that i ever wanted, all in one sleek and compact little cylinder. now all those photos that i've been wanting to take are just there, in the lens, waiting for me to press the shutter. shallow depth of field for portraiture, aperture for days for all those low-light conditions i'm throwing myself into. so when we went for an evening at my mom's barn, the camera got to come with. oh, joy.













and goodness gracious me, i love barns.