129/365: Sunlight

May 26th: Just a tree we were sitting under ...

128/365: Jake's Butt Stop

May 24th: We came across this "plaque" walking around the Capitol. It reads:

This plaque is hereby dedicated on August 31, 2007 by the Florida Senate smokers to:
Jake

By the powers vested in us, we hereby declare this spot henceforth and forever more
JAKE'S BUTT STOP

127/365:

May 21st

Department of Education bulding. This was one of those "Okay need a photo. Snap!" days:)

126/365: Thinking of mamma

May 19th

Blue hydrangeas are a favorite of my mom's, I think of her every time I pass by these.

This particular bush is on Park Avenue, downtown Tallahassee.

125/365: The green

I am so behind: May 18th

The shadows on the grass looks so warm and menacing at the same time. The only thing better would be if a breeze was gently rustling the leaves overhead.

121/365: New season

May 14th

Remember this photo?

Well, this is what the same plant tlooks like in bloom.

120/365: Green city

May 13th

Tallahassee is known for it's trees and the street canopies but usually they will cut off almost completely the side of the tree that meets the poles and wires.

I was surprised to see this one where they allowed for the growth to continue.

119/365: Skyline?

May 12th

A really tiny skyline? :)

110/365: Nice surprises!

May 1st

Today was a good day! It is Beltaine for one... we went to see Snowhite and the Seven Dwarves by the Tallahassee Ballet. Mika was mesmerized and couldn't stop commenting on what was going after she got used to the setting.

Jack was one of maybe ten boys in the theater that seats close to 400 but my philosophy is "A bit of culture won't kill him"; and to his credit he did sit through it without complaining.

Afterwards, David took us to a place he swore I would absolutely love and he was right. It is on Railroad Avenue in Tallahassee, it is an art park but also a place where the city gave space to FSU Art Department Students/ graduates to open shops.

It has such a lovely communal feel, we scrounged through a vintage store and I found a couple of really cool broaches. It is a also a place where the original Cosmic Cat is and since today was a National Free Comic Day we grabbed some free comics too. There's also a rock gym, a co-op, a bike shop and those are just the ones we had time to visit. We will definitely be back. The peace art is from there.



Later this evening we also found out that Macak, our cat that wondered off about a year ago is back.

The second lovely surprise came when David entered the shed only to have a bird fly out and just barely miss his forehead.

On the shelf where I keep all of my gardening stuff and empty planters a mama bird decided to make a nest in one of the empty planters, as you can see she is keeping busy. I'm not sure how she managed to survive the cats so far and I worry how to protect the little birdies from them....

109/365: Colors

April 30th


Flower bed in front of the Old Capitol, mostly petunias and a little bit of pansies.

108/365: Tlingit

April 29th

Remember that American Indian Art show I mentioned earlier?

It is a very good exhibition, interesting because they focused on the tribes NOT typical for this area. The mask in the photo is a Tlingit Shaman's Mask from 1920's.

The jewelry and ivory figurines were most impressive but without flash it's hard to get a good photo.

The Mary Brogan Museum

105/365

April 26th

Kleiman Plaza detail

102/365: Brick fascination

April 23rd

A wall, that's all I got... heh...

96/365

April 15th

We went back to try and find the hands of Mika and friends. Unfortunately, the banner was broken so even though we found Mika's class only the hands of two of the kids were actually still a part of it :/

93/365: When you're happy and you know it...

April 12th

Children's week at the Captiol

One of the festivities is hanging of hands sent it from daycares all around Florida. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's three levels of hangings... hands as far as eye can see. There are so many we couldn't pinpoint Mika's daycare or her group :)

91/365: Ornamental

April 10th

Went plant hunting at the Tallahassee Nurseries.

88/365: Peace

I cannot explain this photo, just something in that red and blue was pulling at me.

It is so simple, but I could look at it for hours.

87/365: The Brogan

April 6th

Visited the Mary brogan Museum today, we had to drop off Jack's registration forms for summer camp. This year he chose Lego robots & Oceanography.

I knew he will go for the robots but the oceanography surprised me, I thought he would choose space or camping/ survival. It was a very pleasant surprise, and I really hope he will enjoy himself this summer. I'm glad the oceanography one includes a field trip to the Marine Lab as well, to connect with people who actually do this for a living.

Hopefully, Jack will finally get hooked on a hobby that he can dedicate himself to. Last year he was attending space/ astronomy camps but wasn't really interested to do anything more with it.

Unfortunately, drama camps have really weird times so he can't attend those...

We'll see

77/365

Today was Springtime Tallahassee's big event, all of downtown was turned int a pedestrian zone for the parade, concerts, kids activities and the artist avenue in Bloxham Park on Park Avenue.

The artists are regulars every Saturday as part of Market Days, and one of the regulars are the gals from Campfire Creations (also known as my mother-in-law & sister-in-law :)

They make glass bead jewelry with all the beads being done by hand using a torch and burned in a kiln afterwards. My favorite part of their work are the pendants that they call "Serendipitous Art" because you don't know what kind of shapes the glass will create until you pull it out of the kiln.

In the picture you see Dana (sister-in-law) doing a demonstration with the torch on how they create the beads. The crowd was unbelievable, I couldn't really get good shots because of the amount of people; the picture in the right corner of Sherrie (mother-in-law) was the best one I got under the circumstances.

You can read more at campfirecreations.org

76/365

We passed by these building so many times already but I never really paid attention to the combination of old & modern architecture with the church in between.

For some reason, this Friday I really stopped to notice it. It didn't really translate well into a photo, the image in my head.