sara with camera

sweet baby james

This post is all about the music.  Meet Sweet Baby James (I don't think I'll ever grow out of my James Taylor phase)...yep, I want to put him in my pocket & take him everywhere I go (Willie Nelson's Everywhere I Go- not growing out of that phase either).  And, his dad, John, looks like Sting with more hair.  Chris called that one. 

This shoot taught me something else, too--or confirmed my theory-- that mountain photos and vivid color do not mix.  Only muted clothes for mountain shoots from now on.  I wanted to try a table & chairs planted in the mountain landscape & None of those photos worked because the table was turquoise--too loud.  So, John, all the furniture hauling was for naught.

And, um, if you ever need a date night C & J, the offer has officially been extended.  Oh, and Happy Birthday little man!  love, sara

sisters

Aren't they the prettiest?  They're the smartest too.  There may have been re-enactments stright out of British comedy shows & Taledega Nights.  I will be incredibly proud (not in the haughty sense) if my two turn out half this amazing.  Oh, we capped off the shoot with frozen yogurt--I kinda want some now. Have a great week, Sara

Lots of Knitting Problems

You may remember the stinky, but beautiful baby blanket (seen here)...well, the Problem Ladies (Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne of Mason Dixon Knitting) have solutions in the current Twist Collective with the stinky problem illustrated by Franklin Habit over at the Panopticon.  If you don't care about smelly blankets or illustrations of them, but like knitting, check out all the sites anyhow...they're all amazing. p.s. Michaela, if the blanket is still stinky, you know what to do! p.p.s. If you don't care to find out how to get the smell out of newly washed alpaca- there's another Q&A regarding whether it's appropriate to knit during CLE (for all you knitting lawya's out there). 

Sadly, my stinky blanket problem may have been solved (well, that's not the sad part), but I have plenty of current knitting problems (the sad part), like: how to get rid of the hole in the baby blanket I am now knitting (it did NOT get there because I had too much hard cider that night at Elza's party [and knitting at a party is not one of my knitting problems- just sayin]...it's garter stitch for crying out loud), and what to do when I need a knitting something and the yarn shop is closed. 

She's a new yarn shop owner and I really like her...except she's super mellow (and likes wild color over more appropriate ones like gray and brown and blue) which must've led to her thinking she was allowed to close shop on Sundays AND Mondays.  Knitters need knitting things when we need them, and crazy things happen when we can't get our knitting things (like I knit a mitered square last night knowing full well that it wouldn't work out.  All because I ran out of yarn to complete the above mentioned holey blanket [actually I technically had enough, I just accidentally bought 3 blue and 1 green skeins instead of 2 blue and 2 green--yarn shopping apparently canNot be hurried] and didn't have a fat-eyed needle to sew in ends and had loaned out my Mason Dixon Knitting book #1 [containing the mitered square pattern for the next baby blanket on the list]...extra scandalous: I should have the pattern memorized because I've knit like 90 of the squares already [big blanket + baby blanket]).  As if that weren't enough, Sunday is right next to Monday [that's 65 hours or something] and that's a good chunk of prime knitting time completely wasted.  So, dear yarn shop owner, if you absolutely must close shop 2 days a week, could you spread them out so as not to encourage crazy, I really know better than that, desperate knitting?  It might be your duty (you know, like a trustee to a beneficiary- yeah, pretty much like that). 

Love, sara

awhile back

Mostly I like this photo because I took it on a cold weekend morning outing with Auden (otherwise, it really isn't all that spectacular- I just miss blogging).  I wish I could take him (and the camera) out for a downtown walk tomorrow...only it's nose in the books for me (catching up for those nine days Chris was gone- good to have him back).  On that note, back to it!  Have a great weekend, Sara 

Scary Bathrooms

This hotel in Brownwood has been empty for as long as I can remember, and I've loved it for that long too.  How amazing would it be to make it perfect again?  ...except that it's in Brownwood.

Perfect for the kitchen?  Sierra Blanca, TX.

Brownwood, Tx.  Looks kind of silly small.  Click for a larger version if you like.

My hotel again.

Sierra Blanca.  Sometimes, in buildings like these, I'm afraid I'll run into an illegal immigrant taking shelter after just having crossed the desert border...hasn't happened yet, but if it does, I just hope he or she lets me take a photo (and that I don't pee myself).

Another kitchen print?  Sierra Blanca, Tx.

Sierra Blanca.  If bottles & signs aren't exciting enough for you:  there's a border checkpoint right at Sierra Blanca on I-10 & just over a year ago, agents found a little weed on Willie Nelson's bus (I'm sure they were shocked).  As Willie says, "Tax it, regulate it and legalize it...And stop the border wars over drugs….Thousands of lives will be saved."  Agreed.  (p.s. Nellie the dog is really, as Matti sometimes calls her, Willie Nelson Rogness).

Yep, that is a tree growing out of a building and I was standing when I took the photo.  Brownwood again.

These (above & below) are both Sierra Blanca.  Chris loves that I make him stop on long trips to take photos of oddities.  In my defense, I really hate stopping when I'm on a road trip so I have to be super compelled to pull over.

By the way, Congratulations to Diantha- baby Bryce was born Saturday, which means baby photos next post!

Amigo Airsho Photos

You probably don't remember, but I misplaced an CF card a couple of months back.  Chris found it this morning!  In the car, of course.  "That what I get" for not cleaning out the car.  So here are the photos from the card/Amigo Airsho (their choice of spelling, not mine).  The first two are, of course, blue angels shots- they flew right over us (85mm lens).  The goofy looking plane-thing is the Super Guppy, and the last two photos are of the Golden Knights.  I'm glad we went, but I've decided I'm not necessarily the air show sort.  Have a great weekend.  Love, Sara

Goodnight.

Power

The architecture photos finally get their turn!

Power in red is awesome enough, but then there are the smokestacks.  Perfect.  That could almost be the theme of this post (phallic symbol search: GO). 

This last photo though has a different pull.  It's difficult to see at this size, but if you click to enlarge it, you should see the small stack of coins and the can of Hunt's tomato sauce (which has a .40 sticker on it- not evident in this photo).

p.s. These were all taken at either the El Paso Rescue Mission or McKinney's Wrecking behind it, except for the power plant photo which was taken a short drive away (to the west, near Rosa's Cantina...you might have noticed it right before/after the Sunland Park exit).  Have a great weekend.  Hope to get the boys in their Halloween costumes for the next post (we've been negotiating pay).  Love, Sara