Happy 2012/

Just one more post for you all til the new year. I have a bit if a deadline coming up for some writing and I am right in the thick of it now so I am going to concentrate on that and come back to you refreshed and deadline free(ish) in the New Year. But I leave you with a calming image to reflect on that I shot it in Long Island a couple of weeks ago. The light is different there than California but I am equally in love with it. I look forward to getting to know this lovely east coast light in the new year. Thanks for helping to make my 2011 one of the best years of my life! Kisses you lovely people!

christmas gifts/

This year's holiday season has been a bit of a weird one for me. I usually get in the holiday spirit, but this year, I have felt like I am in a bubble. I definitely sense that the year is ending but the whole Christmas gift thing I have not participated in. You see, my family decided just to do charitable donations as gifts this year (except for my niece and nephew, who were FULL ON in the holiday spirit!!). I have to say, it was rather nice. I was grateful just to be with my family, and know a tree would be planted and a hive of bees given to someone needy. And then I started driving home. This was the sight as I got into my car. The crows were cawing to each other as I drove away and those cloud formations? It was just stunning. And as I continued on my way back to San Francisco, it just was getting prettier and prettier. There are perks to a "Spare the Air" day. Pink sunsets is one of them. Finally I couldn't take it anymore. I pulled off the freeway and drove along the reservoir for awhile. And just on that stretch of road I watched the sky turn a brilliant pink, the first star of the night, the tiny sliver that is the moon tonight (barely perceptible if you aren't looking for it), and a bunch of deer having their evening meal including a gorgeous buck. Seeing all these things in the space of an hour felt like the most stunning Christmas gift of all. How lucky am I?

happy holidays/

Hoping you and yours have a wonderful holiday season. Me? I'll be mixing cement...(noooo...not really). That is a cement mixer, isn't it? This just cracked me up as I drove down the hill from the Blunk Residency. I love the odd things people do. I wish I knew the story behind this one...I cannot even begin to imagine.

Kisses you lovely people!

winter solstice/

Happy Winter Solstice my friends! I am not really big on New Year's Resolutions, but I do reflect on things past and future on the Winter's Solstice. It seems more fitting to me to obey the earth's rhythms.

Take a moment today to just reflect on all the beautiful things that have occurred in your life and all the wonderful things to come. It is going to be a great year. I look forward to sharing mine with you.

bedrooms/

I swear, it is one of those times...I am wandering aimlessly through my images thinking what do I want to share with all of you today. And the fact is, there is SO MUCH I want to share that I have been shooting, but for one reason or another, I cannot share it! Many are jobs, and others are my own projects that will be seen somewhere else first, but still. I feel thwarted! And then I ran across this image and it calmed me down. This is Heath Ceramics owners, Cathy Bailey and Robin Petravic's home. Simple and so them, right down to the Adam Silverman/Heath light.

The music I just stumbled across (in my own collection) is calming me down as well. Forgot I had this but it is amazing! Johan Johannsson's IBM 1401, A User's Manual. Take a listen to a bit... 

christmas house/orinda

inverness/

Just a pretty picture today. Lots of work to finish up this week, but I can almost taste that sweet little bit of free time waiting for me...cannot wait!

ps - I love Morgan Freeman.