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Irvine Park

February 15, 2011 – 3:42 pm

We spent a day exploring Irvine Park after all that crazy rain.

We started off on the swings.

This is us leaving the civilized part of the park, heading out into the wilderness.

June. The others were trying to coax a lizard out of the log.

Jonny. So rad to see the creek that full, and flowing.

That’s Aveline’s wilderness shoe holder.

Crossing the dam.

This was such a cool area, there were animal tracks all over the sand and so far no human tracks . . . until we put down ours.

Me and Indy.

Tracks!

We followed them, irresponsibly hoping to quietly come upon a slumbering mountain lion.

This tree reminded me of lungs.

And this tree reminded me of Sid ; )

Up

Down

That little cutie-pie is getting her own post, so stay tuned.

I can still feel that crisply cold water and I wish I could bring a pool of it everywhere I go. Just slip the shoes off, roll the pants up and step in whenever I wish for that feeling it imparts.

Kindred folks there. If it weren’t for my greater desire to tend to the needs of my clan, I would love to spend the day just like that. Maybe with some knitting and my Kindle.

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Aveline’s going to need her own blog, too!

February 5, 2011 – 3:33 pm

Here’s a post she designed:

My Pippi daughter!

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Here it is . . .

August 23, 2010 – 4:22 pm

My winning photo . . .

And there are more of my submissions to come!

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a special morning

August 21, 2010 – 12:33 pm

This morning I got to take my family to the Grand Opening of Hoag Hospital, Irvine for a special breakfast and tour of the beautifully refurbished facility. How did I gain access to such an elite event (ha ha!)? So glad you asked. Well, I shot one of the 100 photos named winners of the Hoag Hospital Irvine photo contest. Cool? I sure think so. Below are some pictures of the fun. The one thing missing? My photo! I walked all of the open floors of that dang place (no small feat what with the large baby currently inhabiting my abdomen) and it turned out that my photo was one of the 50 or so that are still “in production.” It was definitely fun wandering around the hospital with no patients and very little staff. Not to mention Sid and I agreed that the photos, all taken on the Mountains to Sea Trail, as well as the other aspects of the refurbishment, really make the hospital a pleasant place to be.

The breakfast was given in the cafeteria of the hospital, it was nice.

Ave asked me to take a picture of the back of her hair so she could see what it looked like. Lovely, no?

I like them.

Wandering. Isn’t it pretty in there?

How rad is that?! I love that! When I get my teeth cleaned, I always close my eyes and pretend that the super bright light in my face is the sun and that I am on an empty beach with God, so I almost felt like this was my idea! This room was labeled “Nuclear Medicine,” I would like to know what that refers to, exactly.

Because of this photo, the baby will have bragging rights when he/she needs ‘em one day, “Oh yeah? Well I’ve been winning photography contests since I was in the womb!”

Jonny was the first to spot my name and the look on his face when he saw it was very gratifying. I’m always trying to impress my kids and it isn’t easy!

Here are my lovely gifts, a glass paper weight and a really nice book of some of the winning photos.

The other winning photos are so amazing that I wish I could go out into the wild today and take some pictures. But that season will be here, with the funny, coincidental circumstances that always seem to accompany such times, soon enough. There were definitely some funny and coincidental circumstances surrounding my becoming aware of the Mountains to Sea Trail (part of it is in my hood) and the contest itself. I’m super grateful that everything lined up just right for us to share this special morning. My only issue is, how will I ever get to see my photo in the hospital? I suppose I could wait a few months, and then try to fake an orthopaedic, pulmonary or cardiac event, so that I would require care from the facility (did I mention how nice-hotel-like the patient rooms are? They all have huge windows, thus a view and natural light as well as lovely photos on the walls taken on the Mountains to Sea Trail! I would fancy a stay in one), and then sneak out of my room in the middle of the night to find my photo . . . Hmmm . . .

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An Afternoon at the Park

March 25, 2010 – 3:43 pm

I’d had a rough morning, I was brutalized by a careless lab technician, left with a very swollen, tender and sore inside-of-left-elbow. I’d had my blood drawn to get to the bottom of a hematologic anomaly occuring in my circulation. I needed an afternoon at Santiago Oaks, one of the prettiest parks ever. Here are some photos of our parktime.