This year my Easter eggs were not quite as dramatic as past years, but here are three of my favorites. I didn’t do an ostrich egg this year, but my brother did and I’ve included a photo of his “Hokusai” egg at the end.
My brother’s ostrich egg margutis.
The Soft Moon – Parallels
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It’s that time of year again . . . and this year changed my life. My brother picked up four ostrich eggs (one full and three blown out) as well as some tiny (quail?) eggs to mix it up a bit this year. It was a bit intimidating to start out on a massive egg, but once I got going I was hooked. I didn’t have a plan going in, but just took it a step at a time and am pretty psyched with the results.
My brother boiled the one full ostrich egg and used it as his “battle” egg for our Easter egg wars (clearly there was no competition). After he opened up the egg, we were all pretty grossed out by the translucent quality of the egg white.
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Warpaint – Elephants
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This is my sister. She is knitting a stuffed elephant. I named him Harry Elephante.
Kasabian – Secret Alphabets
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I hope your Thanksgiving weekend was as delicious and fun as mine was. It’s taken me a while to go through all of my photos from Thanksgiving weekend (and actually I am still not completely done) . . . but here are some of my favorites from the silliness I was up to with the family. When in doubt, go to Carderock.
Sidenote: No one was hurt in the making of these photos . . . except for a few missing limbs by the cleaver (that my great uncle made).
Farmers Market Cherries
Note: I am cheating a bit with this post as these photos are from several weeks ago, but I wanted to get them up here since the blog had been in a state of neglect for a bit.
The other week my friend and I exchanged lenses because he wanted to try my 100mm macro lens and I wanted to try his 10-22mm wide angle lens (the joys of have friends who are fellow Canon users). Here are a few shots I took with the wide angle lens. It does some crazy warping to faces if you get too close to someone, which can be fun.
Perusing through records
My sister at the Farmers Market