three beautiful days in nyc

amy's daughter leah! 



fun-filled evening

the coolest, and the warmest, laid-back and sincere...with the best weather imaginable...dave and dacy's wedding was the funnest wedding i've attended!  was having so much fun i forgot to take pictures til late!
chris carson did a wonderful job officiating!
(for some reason all my pictures are of lovebirds, but the first two are the New Marrieds)

st. louis art museum

yesterday was such beautiful springy weather! my parents (visiting this week) and i walked in forest park and stopped at the museum.

photo painting by Gerhard Richter!

clock by antonio gaudi

tall-making

thanks sandra--now i want them.  kooba boots

last day pictures

can you detect the desperation (trying to bring the beauty home via camera)?

ingmar bergman

grandma with my backpack!

living unplugged

...does it scare you? are you a little sad when you can't check email or facebook?  anxious? restless?
while i was in sweden i lived Without Cellphone and it was really relaxing (if a bit inconvenient) but i had the comforts of wireless connections and my little netbook computer.  this short piece on mindfulness vs. distractions of digital technology is a nice mini-examination:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/mind-the-grid/?hp

ISO experiment

look at the difference in "reality"

ISO 80

ISO 1600

(reality was somewhere in between and beautiful.  i was very frustrated!)