Backyard Inversion

We couldn't have asked for a nicer afternoon

my Orchid in various states of bloom

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A Quick Recap

A trip to Safari West with Bunny and Eman to celebrate his med school graduation

Visiting the Golden Gate Bridge

Easter portraits in Myrtle Beach

Alligator photo shoot

The lights of San Francisco from Twin Peaks

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The Journey Home

I've been in South Carolina since Thursday, and I'll be posting up photos from the trip later this week, but for now I wanted to get these up since I don't think I'll be paying the $13 to get wifi on a plane again, and it's kind of a neat experience (if quite flawed).

First up is my plane at the Myrtle Beach Airport - getting ready for takeoff around noon.

The life vest fell off of the seat across the aisle from me, nobody noticed.

In Charlotte during my layover, I had a surprisingly good sushi lunch. It was expensive, but tasty.

Here's the plane I'm currently on. The captain said we'd be arriving a bit earlier than scheduled, which is good. The wifi on this plane is awful - I can't stream netflix (which I only found out AFTER I paid for it) so I'm making sure to catch up on all of my internet reading and chatting while we're up in the air. I'm not going to waste my investment.

Happy Travels.

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A .gif for you

This was supposed to be a really cool animated picture showing the progression of hanging the mirrors, but blogger doesn't like the file. So here they are in succession. I bought these about a month ago at IKEA, and just got around to hanging them using command strips and little foam pads to buffer the bottom edges against the wall. In all it took me about 20 minutes.

 

 
 

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Playing with Flixel

Flixel lets you turn a static image into an animated picture. Testing it out on Lone Mountain

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Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe

A few weeks ago I was cruising Craigslist like I do all the time and happened upon a Jonathan Adler horse "sculpture" that was actually a lamp base. It was selling for something like 80% off the retail cost of the lamp (and basically what I believe the ceramic pony would actually be worth), so I was super tempted to snatch it up. But after thinking about it for an afternoon, I realized that 1) I'd have to rebuild the lamp to make it something I'd want to keep, and 2) I just wasn't all that into the horse. So I let it go.

I'd been in the Jonathan Adler store on Fillmore a few times before, and I always thought he has a good sense of whimsy and nostalgia wrapped up in really funky kitschy style, but most everything is extremely overpriced in my opinion. But after seeing the horse I really started to be interested in the ceramic menagerie line of animals selling in the store. And then I spotted the thing I really, really, really wanted; the Giraffe Lamp. Another vastly overpriced item, this thing is spectacular in all the right ways.

Anyway, I didn't buy the horse because I decided karma works better by letting someone else get the thing they really want. Lo and behold, someone put up the giraffe lamp on Craigslist, and I managed to be the first to respond to their ad. Bunny and I headed up north of San Francisco to pick it up, and ohmygosh it's so great!

It lives happily only my side table for now, carefully watching over the street and living room. Next up is some elephant salt & pepper shakers and the little black fox!

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New Blinds

Ordered 3 sets of shades and had time to put them up during my lunch break today. A huge improvement over the single roller blind that used to be in the center window.

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