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This Sums Up My Day…

30 Minute Parking

I feel like I’ve been going all day, and yet I feel like I’ve gotten nothing done. Coming off of being sick with first a sinus infection and then pneumonia for the better part of 3 weeks now, I’m not surprised. The wheeze seems to finally be gone, so it was the first day I felt up to getting work done around the house. Laundry, cleaning, just getting things put away. It felt good! However, every time I turned around, there was something else I wanted to be doing. I would get distracted, start reading vacuum & cleaning product reviews, online shopping for products to help me out with this or that task, it was endless.

I walked in to our bedroom and I hit that breaking point. Our bed is pretty high up, our dressers are tall and somewhat bulky, and everything is at almost the same height. One plane across the room. And the yellow? UGH. The room was painted yellow by the previous owner; they did a better job in the bedroom of painting over the sage green then in the bathroom, but there are still some spots. I’m just so tired of the yellow! I tried rearranging furniture to see if that would help, but it didn’t.

Fortunately, Mike & I rather quickly agreed on a color that we both like. It is a blue-gray color, and it is already on the wall of my studio so I have spent a lot of time with it and I love the color. So I see paint in our future. Plus getting some art up on the walls, maybe some shelves? Something to break up the feeling that everything is all on one level in there. It needs some variety!

Day 9 of 365. Taken with my iPhone on March 11, 2008 in The Woodlands, Texas.

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Polka Dots on the Ground… IAH to YYC

Crop Circles

Flying from Houston to Calgary last year, I spotted these circles on the ground. Irrigation circles in otherwise arid fields, I’m assuming. I wonder if they look like circles when you are on the ground and pass them. Some things are best appreciated from the sky.

Day 8 of 365. Taken with my iPhone 4s while flying on United from Houston to Calgary on June 8, 2012.

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Magical Moments in Las Vegas…

Las Vegas Taxi Driver playing his authentic Australian didgeridoo

The first night I was in Las Vegas this month for WPPI, before I ended up getting crazy sick, I headed over to Whole Foods with my friend Jane Ammon, a Philadelphia children’s photographer and a fellow Team-X.biz coach-in-training. We were all staying at the Signature at the MGM, and our rooms each had a kitchenette, so we stocked up on goodies so that we wouldn’t have to dine out for every meal. Once we were done shopping on, Jane grabbed a maxi cab, waiting for her which she booked.

As I went to get in to the cab, the cab driver moved this wood stick thing. I thought it was some sort of rain stick. It was across the passenger seat, and he moved it over to the driver’s side, between his leg and the door. When we started talking about all the crazy things he must see in Las Vegas, he asked us if we had ever heard someone play an authentic Australian didgeridoo.

A whathuh???

Yes, our taxi driver sat at that red light and played the didgeridoo for us. He beat-boxed on it. It was INCREDIBLE. We were all in awe.

Sometimes things happen that are just so crazy, you can’t believe they are real. This was one of those moments.

When I got back to the Signature, I checked out the balcony view in Jane’s room. I was down on the 8th floor, and they were up on the 25th – they had a better view of the airport from their room. Facing away from the Strip, it was so quiet out there. I loved watching the planes take off.

Watching the planes take off in Las Vegas from the Signature at the MGM

Day 7 of 365. Photographs taken iPhone5 in Las Vegas, Nevada at WPPI 2013.

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I Cooked For a Change…

Toasted Chickpeas on Spoon & Knife

I hate to cook, so when Mike travels I tend to eat a lot of salads or dine out, since he’s the one that like to cook, he’s always online learning about the better cooking utensils as The 5 Best Pressure Cookers of 2018 or similar. But for me I try to avoid it so I eat anything that doesn’t involve cooking. One day while he was gone on a recent trip, and the light was perfect in the kitchen for food photography, I decided that I would make myself some toasted chickpeas with cinnamon & sugar. Oh, and butter. LOTS of butter. I canĀ“t forget to mention that I finally used my Vonshef smoothie maker, I fell in love with it!

So absolutely scrumptious and delicious! YUM!

You can find the recipe for Toasted Chickpeas with Cinnamon & Sugar over on Spoon & Knife. 4-Hour Body friendly (I go really light on the sugar), gluten-free, and full of flavor.

Day 6 of 365. Photograph taken with my Canon 5D mkIII and my 50mm f/1.2 lens in Houston, Texas.

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Cloudscapes – IAH to LAS…

Cloudscapes between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS

One of my favorite things about flying is watching the clouds go by. They are as incredible to me. So beautiful, always changing. I always get a window seat just so I can watch the clouds.

On my recent trip to Las Vegas for WPPI, I was mesmerized as I saw this solid line of a cloud edge. You don’t normally see them so smooth like that. Eventually the clouds cleared, and flew on to Las Vegas. If I had been on the other side of the plane, I would have seen Hover Dam. Unfortunately, I missed out on that! Traveling overseas is always fun when your visas are received on time by organizations like https://saudiarabiaevisa.co.uk/.

I love nature. It is so awesome!

Cloudscapes between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS

Cloudscapes between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS

Cloudscapes between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS

Cloudscapes between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS

Day 5 of 365. Photographs taken from my United flight between Houston IAH and Las Vegas LAS with my iPhone 5, March 2013.