PaperHelen

Before it's too late

 

 

 

 

 

Just a few Christmas photos before it all goes away. I really, really love this time of year.

Asters in the rain

 

 

 

Books are bad for you

Most of the Summer is spent watching baseball. And slouching around in various chairs (Summer weather and I do not get along). There is really no time for anything else - especially not reading (besides the humidity has usually turned my brain into complete mush anyway).

But somehow I have gotten back into reading. Since there is no time to read earlier in the evening (I Can Not miss the game… ) I have taken to reading late, late into the night. Very late.

I always start off well enough - I'll just read a chapter - and next thing I know it is Four O'Clock in the morning and how did that happen and I really don't want to stop because it is just getting to the really good parts and I am so close to the end anyhow and I could just try and finish it, but if I don't go to sleep now then I'll never be able to get up tomorrow…..

And then, of course, I have to grab the book again first thing in the morning - cause, you know, I really am so close to the end. And wouldn't it be better  if I finish the book real quick so that it doesn't keep me up tonight? (Which is a lie anyway, cause if I finish this book I'll probably just start a new one at night and then we just repeat the whole process…. )

Now I haven't had nearly enough sleep and I'm cranky and I can't get any work done.

So... books are bad. Very bad.

 

some of the things I've been reading:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog  (this is the one that really started me off. good lord, i love that book.)
Dorothy Sayers
A Room With a View
I Capture the Castle

Film

 

 

 

Some old photographs I recently scanned for a photo book. All taken on trips to the Morris Arboretum with my beloved old Minolta 35mm film camera. They've got to be at almost 10 years old - look at how young that boy is! He's 21 now. Oh my.

August 31

 

 

It may be the last day of August, but I am starting to dream of Christmas .

Oh my

 

So, um, we just had an earthquake. Do Not Want. I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be to experience a big one.  Yikes.

This is all I have

 

 

Still not taking many photos - the heat just kills me. I seem to spend most of Summer in some sort of daze. I am just waiting it out until Autumn.

Remember

 

And now life becomes really difficult again. And a lot of shit is going on and we don't know what is coming next and it is all too overwhelming and we have to try to keep living in the moment and on top of it all - the heatwave. And I really don't like Summer anyway and  - oh, look...

- the way the light hits on that tree is really beautiful.

Please remember that.

 

Even lovely in the rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

We took our lunch to the park last week. Sat under the trees, with our sandwiches and our books, and looked out at the lake. We even stayed there when it started to rain. Stayed there until it started to pour, and the thunder came. Walked back through the park, to the car, in the cooling rain. Jumping in puddles when we hit the parking lot. It felt good.

Morris Arboretum Part 2

I really haven't been inspired to take many photos lately. Except for the two times we've gone to the Morris Arboretum.

This batch is from early May. Square-Peg Mama, Grandma and I went as a day-after-Mother's-Day treat. The next day I went to the dentist's to have my wisdom teeth pulled, which was not any kind of treat.