Dilly Dally Dailies

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I had a wonderful, peaceful lunch break today. I spotted these lovely little leaves creeping onto a wooden fence. I have to say I love the texture of the fence.

After I found this I went to my favorite park and ate my lunch, brainstormed, wrote out some of the life goals that have been swimming around in my head and then watched the clouds and the trees dance in the wind.  Sitting and enjoying nature has been on my to-do list for awhile. I need to start making that a regular part of my schedule. I recommend you do too.

(Hurray, we’re all caught up! and with any luck I’ll be able to keep it that way)

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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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?

It seemed innocent enough at the time… to give my cute little oranges some cute little faces. But I soon found out that I couldn’t bring myself to eat them for it would destroy the happy couples’ dreams of their future life together.  Plus their chaperon has a monocle and I’ve always had a soft spot for people that sport monocles – they always remind of the steward in Disney’s Cinderella.  He had to take so much grief from the king how could you not feel sorry for him?

After work today I got to hang out with my old roommates at CorkTree Cellars – it was a wonderful time of feeling grown-up, hip and stylish.  I was hoping to get a picture there but it was too dark, so my little orange friends will be famous for the day. (and there was much rejoicing)

Today I was very brave and I cooked for myself, and I was successful!  A co-worker recently took a trip to Italy and brought back some spices for pasta sauce for me.  I went for it.  My measuring spoon giraffe friends are in awe of my amazing cooking talents.

And I know this is kind of cheating (posting a 2nd picture) but when I turned around from taking a picture of this beautifuly displayed dish… well, I laughed at myself.  I thought you would have an opportunity to do so as well:

I really did have ALL the cabinets AND the fridge open for at least the last part of the cooking ordeal.  Oops!

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I was suddenly struck with a nasty illness yesterday, after sleeping for about 30 hours straight I’m starting to feel better though

I had a bit of a roller coaster day, therefore I procured some happy pink daisies to help me out of my funk.

In other news I found out that one is not allowed to take pictures inside Trader Joe’s… such a shame it was a pretty cool picture. I’m thinking I should keep a tally of how many times I get yelled at for taking pictures this year

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I discovered this gorgeous collection of studio/townhouses today while I was ordering my mom’s birthday present and had three thoughts:

1. I am seriously considering adding “Owning a studio at 225 E. Cota Street” to my goals.
2. I was reminded that I really want to learn to weld. I’m sure you’ll find out throughout this year that I LOVE to photograph metalwork. (that one is already part of my goal list.)
3. If I was taller I could take cool pictures from above things (I had to stand on a conveniently placed bench to get this one).

 

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My co-worker gave me the cutest gift today! A bright pretty scarf with my name written all over it!

 

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“Energy” (caffeine) and “Burn” mints?? Seriously?

 

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While waiting for a school bus I noticed a cute little house a block away from my house that I had never seen before. This experiment is already training my eye to look for new treasures.

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a lovely tree in front of my apartment.

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I got groceries! Sadly, this is a rare enough occurrence to be worth documenting.

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It’s hard to tell but he is giving all three of us back rubs at the same time. Tea, breakfast burritos, good music, and a massage boy – what a life.

(and I used the timer for this one, I’m going to say that still counts as me taking the picture. Besides I took other pictures this day I just liked this one the best.)

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Someone had to make a choice, and a choice was made.

(I already had a photo for today but I couldn’t pass this up!)