Photo of the Day - February 26, 2012

Adina Models for Me (Part II)

So after the Indie Craft Show, Adina wanted to model her newest outfit.  Part came from the Show and part from Goodwill!  She was so proud of herself that she agreed to me my model again.

Photo of the Day - February 25, 2012

A Girls Day Together

Adina had asked to go to an Indie Craft Fair up in Delray Beach a few weeks ago, but something came up and we couldn't go.  She was so unbelievably disappointed that I knew I wanted to make it up to her.  So last weekend I took her to the Indie Craft Fair at Club Revolution in Downtown Fort Lauderdale.  

This particular Indie Craft Fair used to be held at Cinema Paradiso but I guess they outgrew the place.  There were three floors of booths and artists.  We really had a good time wandering from booth to booth.  Nothing really for me except for fun with my camera.  But Adina bought a bunch of stuff.

However, we started out the day by framing her artwork and delivering it to the Bird and Bear Gallery which is upstairs inside of Tate's Comics.  She ignored me as I documented the entire delivery of artwork.  She thought I was being annoying!  I guess I was, but we can look back on this when she is a famous artist and laugh!

Then we had lunch at my favorite place on Second Street -- T Mex or whatever they are calling themselves these days.  At least their cilantro avocado salad never changes!!

After the craft fair we wandered through downtown snapping all sorts of grungy shots which I thoroghly enjoyed and then ended up at Urban Brew (the one on Federal Highway) for a treat!

It was a fun day and definitely a girls outing.

Photo of the Day - February 24, 2012

Adina Models for Me

Adina loves making up creative outfits.  And then she likes to upload them to a fashion website and talk about what she did to put that look together.  So almost everyday Adina will ask me to take photos of her outfits.

This time I wanted her to play around a bit and this is the result.

A Day in Mount Dora

Our vacation continued on Saturday morning with our friends, Hal and Madeline.  After a quick breakfast in our apartment, we drove about an hour to Tavares which is near Mount Dora.  We rented a pontoon boat there.  As we pulled out of the inlet and onto the lake, there was a bit of fog since it was still a little cool in the early morning.  Everything seemed so white! 

We traveled through three lakes and two canals to get to Mount Dora.  It was the most relaxing and exhilarating boat ride I have ever been on.  I took tons of photos, but I am only going to post one here.  My favorite.  The others will be posted on my Kodak site.  I think I can do a series of images in a show just from Saturday.  The weather cleared up and the sun came out and presented us with a magnificent sunset.

It was a very long day, but it was all so much fun.

An Actual Vacation

Ok, so it was only a long weekend, but this was the first time in a very, very long time that Joel and I actually went somewhere just to go somewhere without the children!  What a concept!

I took Friday off from work and we left at about noon for Orlando.  My lovely new friends and neighbors were kind enough to let us use their timeshare in Orlando.  They also let our friends use it too.  But instead of a two bedroom, we had two one-bedroom apartments.

We always make an adventure out of almost nothing, like eating at Wendy's on the turnpike or just taking photos of the timeshare apartment, or dinner at a nice quiet Italian restaurant and shopping at Publix for a few items to keep in the apartment.  We did have some silly time to make up words with a new brand of crackers!

Just the change of pace and scenery was so lovely.  Adina was off in Boston at her debate tournament at Harvard and Rachel was still at school in Indiana.  I think the last time we went anywhere without children was when Joel took me to New Orleans for my 40th birthday.  So that was 14 years ago!  Wow, that IS a long time.  We need to do this more often.

Project 365 - January 5, 2012

Wow, my first blog post of the year.  This will be my fifth year.  Wow, where does the time go?  When I started this photo blog, my oldest daughter was getting ready to graduate from high school and I had just turned 50.  Now I am 54 and she is a junior in college and my younger daughter will be graduating from high school soon.

But it is so comforting to look back at this blog to see a slice of my life.  What was I doing on June 5, 2009 or September 11, 2010?  I may not have blogged every single day, but there is a good bulk of my life documented out here.

These photos were taken in mid-December just prior to Rachel coming home from college.  Joel and Adina and I drove up to the Pompano Fashion Square to see the Classic Car Show.  It was a very hot and sticky day for December, even though it doesn't look that way from the dark skies.  I think it rained later on in the day.

We had a good time wandering around these cars.  Some that i remember from my youth and others way older than me!  My favorite was the Dodge Dart with the push button transmission.  Joel's father had a 1963 Dart and I remember those buttons!!

Adina got a kick out of the cars too.  She and Joel took off wandering and that left me to do what I do best, sit on the ground and get into weird positions so that I can get the angles just the way I like them.  If I don't end up sweaty and dirty, then I just didn't have a good shoot!

Project 365 - November 5, 2011

You Never Know What You Will See in Downtown Fort Lauderdale

As I was leaving the parking garage, I was stopped at the light at Broward Blvd.  Walking in front of me was a man, fairly young, in a hospital gown and slippers and a cane.  It was like he was just having a nice walk in the early afternoon.  Clearly he had a hospital bracelet on, but like I said, you never know what you will see in downtown Fort Lauderdale.