Summer Evenings.

The simple pleasures of life.

Useful Art

Alone and together, my girlfriend and I love to collect shells, driftwood, or any oddity that washes up on the beach and catches our eye. In the past, our backpacks and towels became bags to tote around our findings and while this worked fine, any belongings that happened to occupy the bags prior to the shells showing up would become entrenched in sand and moisture. To save our belongings (and have more room for collections) we thought that having a dedicated shore finding bag was in order. After we each had our hand at painting one side of the same canvas bag, this is what we had as our new beach findings bag.

                      

                                   Her side                                  //                              My side

Window in the sky.

Chinatown, July 2011

Today.

The family that feeds together.

My girlfriend and I have been apartment sitting for a close family friend for close to a week now. When we began, we were told to watch for raccoons at night; they will come by looking for cat food left out for the alley cats. Well, here they are. I was cooking some eggs a few nights ago when I heard her call me to come quickly to the front door. Upon arriving at the door and looking out into night, I was presented with the sight of this family of three Raccoons devouring the cat food left by the front door. I was amazed. It was hard for us to not want to sit there and watch them go about their life. We're hoping to see them again soon.

Blooming.

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