underwater appletree

2011-11-20T21:49:00.001-08:00

Berkeley, California. The smell of soft pink roses and fresh cut grass.

2011-11-20T21:13:00.001-08:00

New Mexico.

2011-11-20T21:08:00.001-08:00

San Diego, California. Sunshine, sea breeze, living slow.

2011-11-15T14:09:00.001-08:00

2011-03-15T21:42:00.000-07:00

Guitar Solo It's a gem: tiny, beautiful, packed with treasures.

2011-03-07T11:14:00.000-08:00

Picture hunting in suburbia. It ain't easy. Fighting this: with this: Refreshing splash of color, isn't it? If I lived in a place like this, I'd be so tempted to go out and paint the whole town red... literally. Alas, that will probably break a community housing rule of some sort. Ah, suburbia. How uncomfortable you make me. :(

2011-03-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

Trying out the digital macro function on my DSLR.

2011-03-02T14:02:00.000-08:00

Continuing the hard drive dumpster dive, here are a few more discoveries I liked. Last post was during 2007ish. These are 2006 and before, when I was just a babe in the woods. But a babe, like.. a baby child. Not like.. ynoe, a sexy babe. Unless you're a pedophile. In which case, seriously: what's wrong with you? Seek help, and gtfo. These were taken with a Canon Digital IXUS i5,

2011-03-01T15:04:00.000-08:00

A recent dive into my hard drive has turned up some pretty interesting finds, aside from my entire music collection (which I had given up for lost: woo!). I took most of these with my camera phone, a Sony Ericsson K800i whose phonebook denied me access to anybody between G and L (boy was that a pain to work around) and whose screen blew out for no discernible reason at all: technology!

2011-02-23T00:57:00.000-08:00

And we have arrived at part III of the two part series which grew a little out of control. DREI continued I just want to break the post up to show you these sunset pictures by themselves. Beginnings of a sunset. Look at those crazy clouds! So at this point, you're probably thinking, "Oh, cool clouds but like.. whatever." WHATEVER? Just give me 10 minutes. ............................. ..

2011-02-23T00:51:00.000-08:00

Second half, here we go. DREI The third day, we woke up to a beautiful clear blue sky. Of course, the shade of blue found before 6am is a very different sort of blue from your typical "clear blue sky." Yup, that's the moon. Slowly getting lighter. Hardly a cloud in the sky. The ocean is gorgeous in this light, don't you think? Look, the car on the highway still has its headlights on. Due

2011-02-22T19:01:00.000-08:00

So.. I definitely took too many pictures. My eyeballs are red and dry from flipping thru all of them, trying to pick a manageable number to share. I ended up with... 101, hardly any of them edited. Not bad for starting with OVER A THOUSAND PICTURES. Jeez, woman. A little trigger happy, maybe? Anyways, to make the experience a little more manageable, I thought I'd attack it in chunks. Here is the

2011-02-21T13:32:00.000-08:00

I recently had the good fortune of scoring a work vacation at a beautiful reserve. It's the reason I've been absent for a few days, but I have plenty of delicious pictures to make up for it! I need to go wash the mountain out of my hair (and the moss and the streams and the redwoods and the ferns and the birds and the rain and most of all the dirt), but for now: here's a sneak peek of the

2011-02-15T11:13:00.000-08:00

Recently discovered this amazing creative blog:Made by Joel Flower building toy made by Joel Forest made by Joel Cardboard marionette made by Joel Catapult made by Joel Simple, beautiful DIY's. Inspirational even if you aren't down with the power tools but ooooohhhh, it makes me want to try. P.s. All images from Made by Joel. Click link at top of post to view.

2011-02-14T15:48:00.000-08:00

Just for fun..All images from New York magazine. Click any image for link to New York magazine. Carolina Herrera Carlos Miele Jason Wu Tracy Reese Tory Burch Lela Rose

2011-02-13T22:13:00.000-08:00

Lights and colors and laughter and noise.. A wee bit homesick, maybe, but lion dance at dinner is pretty good too.

2011-02-13T18:07:00.000-08:00

Neighborhood kitty must've sensed that I've been thinking about getting a dog recently, because she got all up in my face with this look in her eyes: It's like some sorta godamn kryptonite!

2011-02-12T00:43:00.000-08:00

First day spent packing, got two small boxes of books filled. That's right. That's ALL I got done in an entire day.I guess it doesn't help that I was watching Prison Break the entire time. To keep:Cambridge Companion to Aristotle Regulating How We Die Personal Identity The Four Loves The True Believer Toys to Knit Inside the Blackroom Critique of Pure Reason Leibniz The Island of the Colorblind

2011-02-11T14:48:00.000-08:00

Yanked my mom's big ol skirt over my chest and put a belt on it. Ahhhh.... the difference a hemline makes. Top row: taken to the tune of I'm Not The One by The Black Keys. :(( Bottom row: taken to the tune of Sinister Kid by The Black Keys. :D! Maybe it would've looked good as a skirt on somebody taller (e.g. The Mother) but as you can see from the rightmost upper picture, the skirt flared

2011-02-10T13:43:00.000-08:00

I'm not much for Valentine's Day celebration but it's been nice to see the crafters do their thing all throughout the month. Has it only been ten days?? I swear I've seen 40+ amazing ideas already. So far, though, nothing beats these Lost themed vday cards. Check it out: image via sl-lost. More cards at link. Click image for link. So. Freaking. Hilarious.

2011-02-06T13:01:00.000-08:00

One more time, extra large: I like it. I like it lots.

2011-02-04T11:24:00.000-08:00

Second shot at indoor night time photography: Straight out of camera (I think Ree the Pioneer Woman calls it SOOC?) taken from my passenger seat. Instead of turning the ISO way up (I think the Hi 1.0 ISO I used last time is equivalent to something insane like ISO 6400), this time I used something called slow sync rear flash. I think the idea is that the shutter is open for a longer period

2011-02-02T23:23:00.000-08:00

Dear college,Do you miss me yet? North Reading Room at UC Berkeley's Doe Library

2011-02-02T18:50:00.000-08:00

The brain: IT'S REEEEEEEEEEEEEAL! Yes, that is my brain. Because college(towns) are awesome like that.

2011-02-01T22:57:00.000-08:00

German: it ain't English, and it damn sure ain't French. It's an uphill climb. Badam bish! "au" pronounced ow e.g. Kaufmann (cowf-mun) not as in "Paul" "eu" pronounced oi e.g. Freude (froi-deh) not as in "feud" "ei" pronounced eye e.g. Meister (my-stuh) not as in "heir""ie" pronounced ee e.g. Spiel (shpeel) not as in "sierra"