Friends

These two live thousands of miles apart, but they got to meet up today and share their love of doggies and blueberries.

Letters

Hiking partner

For some reason, a bunch of people stopped to say hi to my hiking buddy when we stopped for a water and play break.

Procrastination

My newest art installation, entitled The Perks of Not Mowing the Backyard for a Month.

Sunset Crater

On our last day in Flagstaff, we went for a hike at Sunset Crater. I was not expecting a post-volcanic wasteland to be so beautiful.

Clouds

The clouds at Walnut Canyon were unusually stupendous.

Detail

Sunflower

Summer

Queen Anne's lace may not be the absolute epitome of summer, but it's awfully close.

Brief

Evelyn was not wildly cooperative about pictures with her great grandma, but I manged to capture a few successful moments.

Verdant

Michigan summer is beautiful... I miss it already!

Farm

Last Monday, Evelyn, Rebecca, Mom, Dad, and I went to the Chippewa Nature Center homestead farm. As soon as we got out of the car, Evelyn was excitedly pointing towards the sheep, ready to go see the animals.

Apparently, Aunt Rebecca and Evelyn both felt a bit skeptical about this sheep grazing outside the fence.

 So excited about the pigs. (And also horrifyingly enthusiastic about chewing on the splintered, mud-spattered fence.

Evelyn takes pig-farming seriously.

Inspecting the cows with Grandpa.

Clover

I'm trying to learn how to be aware of aperture when I take pictures. Lots of them have not turned out at all. This one did, though.

Look up

Pretty tasty

I feel like often in the Venn diagram of our dinners, pretty and tasty only somewhat overlap, but I'm working making it more of a matching circle, so we consistently can eat pretty tasty food.

Cookies

Ben makes really good chocolate chip cookies, so it's unfortunate that I've realized that refined flour makes me feel pretty crummy. Time to figure out a new recipe so the baking can continue.

Eventually

When it gets this hot, I start thinking wistfully of fall weather. It will be here in only three short, blazingly hot months.

The trees in the park behind our house are pretty great in the fall.

Cool

With temperatures near a hundred degrees, Evelyn thinks staying cool is serious business, especially with the power out for a few hours yesterday afternoon.

Okay, maybe there was some fun involved as well. 

Big Sky

The summer temperatures in Texas may be miserable, but the sky is pretty amazing.

Flower

This will surprise exactly no one, but I love having flowers in the house and taking pictures of them.