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astrid has been compiling a lovely series called why do you shoot film?

today my words and photo [from a photo walking when we were i soho last month] feature on hei astrid. check it out and the rest of her lovely blog.

the photo above was not taken in soho, rather at my graduation ceremony which took place a few weeks ago. the university served refreshments afterward. i only had my natura classica in tow and snapped some quiet scenes from the morning.

good day!

just as i was sulking about, i read this and felt inspired enough to start scanning some polaroids from our trip. this is one of 60+ shots which i’ve had sitting on my desk for the last month.

this one is from the stairwell outside our room at the ace hotel. it was a pretty nice place to stay.

you’d think i would have my act together by now. we’ve been back from our travels for a month now and yet my mind still wonders. i really admire those who can slip straight back into their everyday routine. i am not one of them.

i’m trying though. i set up a little container garden on the balcony. i moved some furniture around. i got a hair cut. i’m even moving offices. and yet.

tell me, how do you settle back into your routine after travelling?

the lovely people at frankie have been hard at work compiling a book of inspiring photographs. and i am humbled to have a favourite film shot from my london vaction in 2007, included.

the photo album will be available in october and pre-orders are available over here.

it’s been a while.

and now, another adventure ahead. i’ll be posting here for the next couple of weeks as we discover seattle, portland and new york (take two).

and today, a little glimpse of my side of town: winter flowers, lunches with my sister, and dinner with my husband.

these shots were taken by this little guy. more here too.

late this afternoon, a double rainbow sent our way from brooklyn.

thanks people!

like millions of others.

its a good bye to a lot of things.

good times.

on 600 sx-70
a little pretty for this sunday. blushing pink and ruffles in egg cups.

thankful that this weekend only got better.

i can hardly wait to see what this little guy does.

i was going through my photo archives this morning and came across a folder or two of paris. my morning was over and done right then and there.

paris is special to me because i travelled there with my sister about a year and a half ago. we had a magical time.

when it comes to travel  i tend to find it difficult to relay what it was about a city or place. oh, i can sigh whistfully, but that’s about it. like important milestones, travel seems to make me look inward for a good while after i return home. i’d make a horrid travel writer for sure.

this photo sparked a little giggle though. and i wanted to share it and the story behind it.

we stayed in montmartre and a few doors down was this little hole-in-the-wall crêperie.

we always wanted to stop by on our way back of an evening and get a hot crêpe to have back in our room, but the owner was always on the phone. sometimes he would have a friend standing in the little space with him and still be on the phone.

after three futile attempts we wished he was on the phone once more because it would make us giggle into the night. sure, we’d be without a sugary crêpe, but often we’d have a treat tucked in our bags anyway.

on our last night in paris we tried again and the owner did not fail us. and so i had to remember him this way and hope that those telephone conversations are still going strong, because they sure seemed important!

a few more memories of paris:

we stopped for cafe au lait and baked goods many, many times.

we bought two boxes of these to share together and take back on the train to london.

we don’t usually take tourist photos such as this. but the gingko tree at the sacre cœur was for standing under.

the everyday buildings and signs were just as lovely as the baked goods.

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