big girl

shots of a rather big girl with a big camera on a sunny weekend day. these were taken by her big sister, karoline. i think we'll probably make her go around with bricks on her head to try to keep her from growing, since she's growing up way too fast.

#300

this is the 300th post on this blog. pretty good in about a year. even if i did most of them. :-)

and, like many of them, i'm using it to share fabulous pictures. because i do so love my nikon D60. best purchase i've ever made. well, at least it's right up there...

first, invitations for an upcoming birthday in our household...

then some beautiful, but busy creative hands...

and lastly a self-portrait which i had fun with in Lightroom2. i'm addicted. and actually, it's not really a self-portrait so much as a picture husband took. i'm all about the eyelashes.

looking forward....

to scenes like this:

and this:

and this:

just the highlights

the highlights of mathilde's trip to manila...in pictures:

there were beautiful sunsets:

picturesque boats:

searching for shells at waters' edge:

is she really only 13?

amazing sandcastles (we didn't make this)

fresh coconut drinks:

more searching for special shells:

a tattoo?

(don't worry, it's henna and will wash off in 2-3 weeks)

turning down lots of modeling offers:

and a close-up of the tattoo

in between all these were wonderful desserts, tender steaks--including a wagyu beef (OUT of this world), shopping, new shoes, looking at handbags, manicures, pedicures, spa treatments, sunburns, snorkeling with tropical fish and coral reefs, rides in pretty green cars and little houses given away in business class on KLM. in short, a wonderful trip. 

are you lookin' at me?

been wanting to take pictures of these birch tree eyeballs for such a long time:

and then i spied a monkey in a tree: