Dilly Dally Dailies

Hi Friends, 

I’m on vacation this weekend – and you better believe I’m taking pictures. But I won’t be able to get them up here until Monday or so.  In the mean time here are some b-sides from January.  I’m planning on doing this at the end of every month… Some days I take more than one picture (this month I took a grand total of 623!) and it can be challenging to pick one.  So I was thinking I’d put a couple of the “almost but not quite” ‘s up here every now and again.  I played a bit more with some coloring effect on some of these which was so fun I might keep doing it.  (some of them got a little out of order – sorry!)

Hope you enjoy these, let me know what you think and I’ll see ya next week.

Muah!
Jules 

1-12-09: 225 E. Cota St. – This place was just too cool to only take one picture!

1-13-09: Santa Barbara Post Office

1-14-09: East Beach on a Beautiful Day!

1-15-09: another angle of my “make a bad day better” dasies 

1-17-09: A trashcan that says “grace” on it… deep.  (I played with the colors a lot on this one)

1-19-09: A really cool deck I found at the beach.  The sun was setting which made for some fun lighting. 

1-20-09:  limes make [almost] everything yummier. 

1-12-09: I didn’t realize we had a foodland (or that they existed at all) until I took a weird way to get to a friends house. I guess there is exploring left to do here.  I really like the reflections of the traffic signal and my camera lens (yes, I took this through my car window while at a red light). 

1-24-09: Agua Dulce Foursquare Church’s outdoor lighting (I went home for a wedding shower that day).

1-29-09: I loved how these flowers weren’t going to let some silly fence keep them from growing the way they wanted to.  I really needed this encouragement the day I took this. 

1-24-09: Wedding shower just isn’t fun without a wedding dress made of toilet paper.

1-12-09: 225 E. Coat St. again – (Can you tell I liked this place?)

1-23-09: They day I found the cool green truck I also found Colonel Mustard, a crazy cool patchy blue guy, and Rusty McRuster.

1-30-09: I think I need to look up more often.  I have fun playing with the colors on this one.   

1-30-09:  I really liked the abandoned crayons at the foot of this massive artistic column.  There are a lot of different meanings you could throw on this one.  I’ll let you decide. 

1-28-09: Another image from my paperclip jar’s modeling debut. 

1-17-09: Seriously, how does she look so cool? I can’t decide which coloring I like better.  Feel free to vote. 

What a month! Thanks for keeping tabs on me and Happy February!

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My good friend, Nif, and I went on a walk today and discovered an awesome park.  It’s up on some bluffs looking over the ocean and seems to go for quite awhile (we ran out of time and had to turn around before we hit the end). It was a gorgeous day and apparently this is the place to be when you are sporty, hot, and have a dog. Let’s just say that on the walk back we started talking about the steps we need to take in order to fit a puppy or two into our lives.

This tree reminds me of a crescendo and I love the way it kind of explodes at you.

(I’m sorry that I’ve gotten so completely behind! I haven’t stopped taking pictures I’ve just been working some bugs out of the whole getting them uploaded side of things. Everything should be back on track now. Thanks for hanging in there with me!)

    

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First of all, I’m sorry for falling off the face of the earth this weekend – I was taking pictures but wasn’t able to get them uploaded. But I’m back and ready to rock it!

Now then onto business: Friday was a terrible day at work, lets just say I ended up tearing up a bit in the HR office. Once I finally got a lunch break (3:30 pm) I headed straight to the beach, threw out my happy blue towel, put some Imogen Heap in my ears and read a bit of Ben Patterson’s thoughts on the Psalms. Needless to say – I felt much better an hour later

I think its important to have a stash of emotional medication for those days that don’t go according to plan, what’s in you’re de-funk medicine cabinet?

01-19-09 1, originally uploaded by BetweenTheShutter.

Today was simply wonderful. Having Monday off of work is the best idea ever. After sleeping in (a little too) late, I headed to the beach with a good friend.

It was so beautiful out I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that 1) it’s supposed to be the dead of winter and 2) I actually live in this freaking beautiful place.

These two points of confusion kept being stated as “Its January?!?” and “I live here?!?!” After 7 years I still can’t get over how beautiful this place is.

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It was so beautiful out today. I had to stop by the beach on my lunch break.

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It was a beautiful day to go on an art walk. When the weather is nice (which is almost all the time) I love heading down to the Sunday Arts and Crafts Show at East Beach.