in motion, at rest

photographs to paint

A rose by any other name...

This most beautiful flower, all over Brooklyn in August, big as my hand...has many names.
Familiar name: Rose of Sharon
Scientific Name: Hibiscus Syriacus
Family: Malvaceae or Mallow
Commonly Called: Rose Mallow
I love it!

GO!!

Before the Big New York Posts...

Jordan welcomes home Mac at the San Diego Airport August 14, 2012

I love this

photograph because

it looks

like a painting.


And is also

very. very

sweet.

Brother Sister Day 2012

Started with donuts, then Inflatable World, Soup Plantation, Magic Cards, Sherlock shirts and hours and hours of The Settlers of Catan (the best game ever!)

Happy Making!

Cute and smiley Macky in a Bow Tie



and



Painting my favorite Photograph!

Ok I like to paint Magic Cards!

NATURE is un-bee-flappin-leave-ubble.

GRAPES!!!

PLUMS!

FENNEL!

                   

Wild Animal Park sleepover with Nana!

8 years for mac, 5 for emmett and year 2 for silas! lucky (and extremely cute) duckies.

thanks nana!!  xoxoxoxoxo

summer can be sweet

camping, magic cards, children in nature, cuddling and covered in sunshine, relaxing and socializing and hanging in a mid-century modern paradise...

magic cards!

our new upstairs art space

mt laguna year 5

glamour girl

magic cards in the tent

Meg, Crys and JOHN GREEN...Here they come!!

nerdfighters fighting to decrease world suck

5 AM

 These two  NERD FIGHTERS are headed to Indianapolis to adventure with their most favorite people, mid-west stylie. Meg and Crys have the whole trip planned out and it should be a whirlwind  that includes a literary tour of all the places mentioned in the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. (Mr. Green, if you are out there, there are two very excited kids coming your way who would love to thank you for all your books and vlogs!!)

...and she side-walk chalked Sherlock quotes all over South Park...

Meg and Crys We Love You

Meg and Crys have gone vegetarian for the week and will surely be exposed to Mac's favorite Sherlock (PBS), which she is also reading...or devouring, I should say! And also, look forward to geeking out with Emmett and some serious Minecraft and Magic Card action. They've got passions!
xoxoxo Love to You all and Happy Adventures!!

i might get into trouble for this...

Shifting and Settling, Changes Abound

silas LOVES his new room

emmett now has a gigantor room, all cozy and bookish

and the upstairs has been entirely hogwarted with a train track, hagrids cabin etc

there's nana peeking out behind cilantro and daisies and see the new painting by mama, emmett and ren

and my room has had a transformation as well, definitely vagified. i said it.

Good-Bye Rose Panda

the saddest thing...we had to say good-bye to Rose Panda. She wasn't having that great of a life anymore and it was time...she was the best cat and we all spent a lot of time talking about all ways she was special to us...

we love you forever. we will miss you. you will always be a part of the flower house.