briefly, how it was

this is for my dear friend, laura. she has a photo just like it. and she got me this darling scarf i turned into a headband. it is all polka dots and happiness. and i love it. so i wore it to meet the animals on friday.

and animals we met indeed.

this little guy stole my heart. i have no idea what he is. but he is hilarious, was all spastic in his walking. and bright. and look at his big bulgy eyes. i loved him.

i spotted one of only 3 giraffes during our time in kruger. i mean, i actually spotted all three of them. but this is a photo of only one.

this was what i saw each time i glanced out the window where we stayed. it was foggy and misty almost the entire weekend. i wish i had brought The Two Towers with me, or The Hobbit. it would have been good to read about the misty mountains while living in misty mountains. but i had my memory and told the stories to myself, because they are that good. and so i would sit on dew stained grass and render to myself and the flying birds about gandolf leading the nine up and over, and how frodo was so weak and needed dear sam to carry him and how the ring was eventually thrown into the doom filled mountain and how good won and aragon led the final charge and good won. again, yes...again, because its too easily forgotten. good won. and wins each day. it was a very fitting story for Easter; my beloved ring story, my beloved Easter story.

this is hands down my favorite photo from the entire weekend.

perfect photo of life for an Easter weekend, don't you think?

spent the weekend in the first not one, but two accidents of my entire life. here is the damage from the one. sorry mom and dad. didn't want to tell you we had another one, too. but it was worth it to hear your voices, wasn't it?!?! all is fine. i am fine.

these ladies were decked to the nines. they were cute. we talked a bit.

if we have spoken longer than 20 minutes you know how dearly i love Monet and lily ponds. he is the reason i love all things blurry and out of focus in photos, in life. i was in my hay day for about 30 minutes while sitting at kruger and watching the stillness. i'm gonna paint like Monet in Heaven and have lily ponds and waterfalls in my backyard.

i love shooting in black and white and then converting to antique on my computer. i could sit by gentle lapping rivers all day, every day. especially ones that have baby hippos in like this one did. look closely. very closely. 

it was a tropical eden on the mountain. what are these flowers?!?! the color! Oh, the color! i loved them. wanted to steal them away home with me to my dear little lapa.

tomorrow i will write more. just now i am off to clean and organize the mess of the school and my house.