52 Weeks of 2014 - Week 10

Ah San Francisco. So many leave their hearts there.

52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 47

52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 35

In all the years I have lived here, I had never taken any photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge. It is such an icon of this area and so last week, after dropping the kids at school I drove out to photograph the bridge. I arrived to a blanket of fog so thick, that I could see nothing! Initially I was disappointed and frustrated, but really, I should have known it was to be expected. This is San Francisco after all. So I sat and read and listened to music for over two hours, waiting for the fog to clear, or at least break.

Finally I glimpsed the barely there shadow of the bridge, then for about twenty minutes the fog thinned and swirled around the bridge, revealing glimpses of the blue sky to come, it was beautiful. Then just as quickly, the shroud of fog enveloped us again and I was done.

52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 30

Spring Lake, California, we love it. We camp there with friends every year and make wonderful memories with our children. I'm not sure who looks forward to it more, I mean the preparation is a lot of work, but then we get there and the kids are laughing and playing and riding bikes and swimming. Nobody nags them about being dirty, or needing to clean up. Their best friends from birth are by their sides, the daddies aren't leaving for work, they get to stay up late and make s'mores. They go to bed stinking of fire smoke, exhausted, but oh so happy.

This is what summer memories are made of!