sometimes pretty is...

June 9, 2018 Arlene Giddings

in your own backyard...
or...
maybe in your neighbor's front yard...
or the park across the street...
but
close enough to walk to...
that's my point.

on friday,
after complaining about the
yuckiness of the weather
i met up with a best friend for
treats and laughing
(so much laughing...my face hurt)
at a favorite coffee shop.

it started to pour rain
while we were there
but, by the time i got home,
the sun had come out
and the light
was
magical.

i couldn't stop myself...
i was only going to take a couple photos
but ended up being gone for over 2 hours.
it all started with the park at the end of my street...

and yeah...if you live close to me and
have lilacs...i might have been skulking around your
front yard (totally not brave enough to
skulk around someone's BACK yard...)

and then i found myself outside
Holman's Ice Cream Parlour....
and it IS the month of sundaes soooooooo.....

that sundae
was
OUT OF THIS WORLD amazing...

and then i embarrassed myself a little
but practically laying on the ground
in their gardens to take photos of the flowers
BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

and the stroll ended at the boardwalk
by the water
as the sun was going down
which is when i realized
that the sun was going down
which meant
june bugs
would be coming out
so i pretty much ran-walk the whole way home...

i wanted to tell you....

June 9, 2018 Arlene Giddings

about the walk i took yesterday
after it rained
and the sun came out
and the light was all golden hour-y
and how i was just going to
take some photos in the yard
but then saw the tree across the street
with all its pretty in pink blossoms
but then...wait a minute, look at the entrance to the park
i'll just walk down that far...
but then i remembered there were lilacs
a little further
and two hours, one sundae and 237 photos later
i was fast walking
to get home before the june bugs
came out....

i was going to tell you about that today
and show you pictures
but...the sun is out...
and the camera battery
is charged
and i think i am just going to have to go
for a drive...
messy hair and all.

hello, saturday.
:)

wordless wednesday....shades of blue...

June 6, 2018 Arlene Giddings

shades of blue at stanhope beach...

tuesday truths at 10:30 pm....

May 29, 2018 Arlene Giddings

i should have done the dishes.
i should have changed the kitty litter.
i should have put some laundry in the machine.
i should have swept the tumbleweeds of cat fur
out of the corners of the living room.

but the sun was shining.

and the car was home.

and the gas tank was full.

so instead
i went looking for pretty light
and abandoned boats
and dirt roads...

and now my heart feels
satisfied and content
(but also can't wait to go again!)

getting into the spring of things...

April 28, 2018 Arlene Giddings

and suddenly,
it's spring.

the sun is shining,
the ice is melting
and my boots squish ankle deep
in mud
and i couldn't be happier.

spring is a game changer.

it's a whole new mindset.

it's a release
a reprieve
a cure for the winter blues
that you sometimes had
panic attacks
thinking would never come...
and then
one day you woke up
and it was here.