365::171 - peace

My parents' place always seems so peaceful, away from the speed and noise of the highway.

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365::170 - my dad

This is my dad. He's one of the hardest-working, most thoughtful men I know. I got to spend part of Father's Day weekend with him and my mom and my sister. It was great!

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365::169 - lovely

Have I mentioned that I love my new lens?

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365::168 - writing

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365::167 - it's wet out there

I love me some water drops.

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365::166 - fast

There are train tracks across the street from our house.

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365::165 - dreamy

I got a new lens, a Dreamy Diana lens from Photojojo (but really made by Lomography). It's a toy camera lens, and it's got a soft focus. I've been having a lot of fun playing with it, and you'll see more of the results as we go along!

Also, this lamp is one that Eric scored out of the dumpster when we were in Baltimore the weekend that the Hopkins students moved out. Sweet.

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365::164 - bright

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365::163 - arms open wide

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365::162 - summer is here

I don't love summer. It's a crazy-busy time at work (which is fine, but I'd prefer the busyness to be spread over a longer period of time). It's hot. There's no free time. I sweat.

One thing that I DO love about summer is the fireworks.

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365::161 - warm

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365::159 - fresh

Our CSA (community-supported agriculture) share included strawberries. YUM.

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365::158 - wood

365::157 - reliving the past

We got the cedar chest from my bedroom at my parents' house, which meant I had to empty it to load it onto the truck....which meant I went through all of the things in it. There were a lot of things that I forgot existed, including this sign from my first summer working at camp. It's got sweet notes from several of the people I worked with that summer--some of whom I'm still close to, and some that I hardly think about.

I realized while I was reading those notes that I genuinely liked everyone on the staff that summer. It's been a long time since I could say that. I think I'd like to have those rose-colored glasses back.

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365::156 - cat

It's hard to get a photo like this when the cat likes to kick the words.

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365::155 - big smile

Here's the hART of BC dinosaur that's outside the library!

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365::154 - good friends

Our friends Mike and Lori came to visit us while on their vacation. When Eric and I spent a year at Henderson Settlement in Kentucky, Mike and Lori lived just down the road from us. They are from Michigan, but they live and work in this rural Appalachian community as representatives of the United Methodist Church. We really enjoyed their friendship and support when we lived nearby, so it was great to have them as our first overnight house guests in our new home!

We took them to the cemetery at the top of the hill in Owego so that they could see our whole town at once, and the evening sun was shining on us. (That's why Lori looks like an angel in this photo!)

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365::153 - what's next?

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365::152 - putting it together

We got a dresser on super sale at Ikea when we went to visit Christie and Tim, so Eric had to put it together when we got home. There was a little bit of a snafu with making sure the drawers were right side up, but he got it worked out. It's amazing how many little pieces those buggers have!

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365::151 - grow

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