An Explosion of Light

I was working outdoors yesterday late in the day, and came in the house for something and was blown away by all the light streaming into the front hallway. It felt like an explosion of light. I quickly grabbed the camera and shot this, because the light changes so quickly in these circumstances. NOTE: Sorry for being late with this post, but we had a thunderstorm last night and lost power. Woke up this morning with power restored, then before I could get to the computer it went out again! Now its on again, and here is my post!

In the Garden

When I was at my sister Joan's house in Connecticut for the birthday party, I found this wonderful seat in the garden. I think it is not her garden, though. She is really friendly with the family next door, and Joan uses the neighbor's horseshoe set, as she did for the party. I went over to see the game, and discovered this wonderful garden seat. Some years ago I did a photo essay on garden benches, and wish I had known of this one to include. I love the look of the surface, with the silver-colored wood, and the moss.

Displaying the Flag

On Flag Day I posted a photograph I took of a flag hanging from the front porch of a classic Sea Cliff house. Well yesterday I saw this flag on a more modern house, and I loved that there was a garden in the foreground as well. I know, maybe I should look for flags in unexpected places for future posts. I like the thought of that.

Fourth of July

We went to our friend's house for dinner tonight with a group of their friends, and they have this great view of the harbor from their balcony. Which is good, because there were fireworks launched from a barge in the harbor. Last year I did a close up view of the fireworks themselves, so this year I had to do something completely different. Just because... So here it is - Dan was leaning on the railing in a relaxed way, and maybe a perfect foreground for this wide-angle view. Fortunately, they didn't wait until dark to shoot them, or I wouldn't have a silhouette in the foreground. Click on this for better color, please.

The Birthday Party

So we had a wonderful birthday party for all the July birthday people! This is my mom, and the American flag cake my sister Betsey made for all of us, and Liz and Amy showing my mom the photos they took of the whole group of us around the table. It was a wonderful day for all of us to be together.

Liz is Home!

Yeaaaaa! Liz is home! Picked her up at JFK tonight on a flight from LAX. Yipeeee! Tomorrow we all head to Connecticut for the family birthday party. It has been six months at least since we have all been together, and it is SO nice. Nice to just sit around and visit and hang out and drink coffee and share laughter. Isn't that what families are all about?

Same Thing, Different Day

More rain today, only this time it was a thunderstorm, with lightning and really heavy rain. Amy was so excited - it has been a long time since she has been around a thunderstorm. Not only do they not have thunderstorms in coastal Los Angeles, they hardly have any rain at all. So she was thrilled to be in the storm, watching from the porch. She got her camera and did both still photographs and some movies, as a reminder of how nice it is to be on our porch during a rainstorm.