here's a photo i hadn't seen until just this week, though it's from dan's wedding nearly three years ago. i think it's one of my favorite family pictures ever now, because it gets not just tim and dan and i, but sarah (dan's wife, in between tim and dan) and sarah's two sisters, too. but i can't look at it a lot...it's kind of Too Much.

bits of our fourth

i'm going a little beyond the spartan one-picture approach for this one, because it's too good to pick just one. we went to a crazy parade in athens, where the citizens take over a backroad and put on a drunken parade and a bush administration-bashing play that traditionally starts with everybody standing up and giving the finger to washington d.c.
never, i think, have i seen so very many people drunk and/or high and/or both before noon.

have i mentioned, lately, how much i love my home state, and how glad i am that i returned?
oh, and here's pete.

Evening Bike Ride

Brooklyn waterfront.

a new project

two lovely things from the past few weeks...

jared made the arbor. i carried sticks for it.

In my post-vacation organizational frenzy ("I must make my life make sense!") I purchased and assembled these filers, tackled my scraggly piles of magazines and arranged them by date. I have never, ever done this before, in my entire lifelong history of subscribing to millions of magazines.

flowers and showers

front porch. yellow flowerpot.
tim is in town, and he brought his shoes with him.
at the maine-themed wedding shower we threw for annie, who will be tim's wife in four days (!), this giant whoopie pie was the cake. delicious.