i will lay down my heart and i'll feel the power

sometimes i feel like i need to take a picture of the same thing every single day because it is so incredible or beautiful or awesome that i can't possibly leave it be. and it just keeps being incredible or beautiful or awesome every. single. day.

these are the same things on separate days.

i don't have to go far to see beauty here.

love,

r&y

ps. it seems i have to listen to this every single day as well. 8:11 is my favourite. but how can artists listen to a cheesy 90s country song and think, "this song would be fantastic to cover!" then turn it into this... 

i just hear a cheesy 90s song, and then delete it from my life... 

mamiya 645 taken spring 2012

the act and process of shooting an arrow matters more than where it lands

my dad would so totally have done this.

it is apparently a snow day today. it just barely started snowing... i'm thinking all those news reports about how bad the snow can get here in the east were a little exxagerated if this constitutes a snow day. and i'm pretty sure the only snow day i've ever had in alberta was when they thought the gym ceiling would collapse under the weight of snow. and even then, we were back at school the next day... i even had school when the highway leading to school was closed because they couldn't plow it fast enough (and we are quick plowers in alberta).

inspired by this article and these pictures this week. makes me feel less guilty about snapping a bazillion pictures that no one but i will probably ever see.  (however, now i will hide them in the attic...)

more pretty pictures we took in alberta. last two were test shots with our new mamiya in mississauga. funny that the test shots turn out better than some real shots...

love,

r&y

christmas day is in our grasp so long as we have hands to clasp.

i love coming around the corner and finding the scene of christmas morning. i love that it is magical, even now. i love watching others open their presents and the mess of wrapping paper on the floor. and i must admit that i love opening presents and finding that i got something i never knew i always wanted. it was a christmas miracle that santa found us in sandpoint (we were spoiled), and another that tyler had a present when his never came in the mail like it was supposed to... and mari just couldn't accept that gramma's present to her was for her doll, and not a bed for mari...

i almost forgot to open my own presents.

christmas day will always be just as long as we have we.

love,
r&y

 

"it's the christmas holly bear!"

Z Rizdvom Khrystovym! Kurisumasu Omedeto! Merry Chirstmas!

we ate around the world at tyler's parents house this christmas. ukranian kutya. ethiopian injera. mexican enchiladas. every night a different culture. we were never hungry and always full. it was glorious.

when we weren't eating, we were climbing mountains to find the perfect tree (which ended up being the perfect tree someone else had cut down and left behind...), racing down the hill in the backyard, building pizza ovens, watching movies, playing beatles rockband, monitoring the eclipse, and listening to urabamba. 

sleep is highly overrated...

can't wait to do it again. and again.

 

baby, we've always got next year...



this year, it was quite possibly the best. christmas. ever. we were filled with food, presents, memories, sleep, and energy to last us for the remaining few months we will be out here. and everything on our to do list was easily forgotten (we've always got next year...).

and we took about 12 rolls of film. so for me (and you), christmas will last another month or so!

this is charlie, my gold dress, and GQ tyler after church at our cabin in idaho. there are too few times you get to wear gold, sparkly dresses, and christmas time is one of them. one of many reasons i love that season.

love,

r&y

ps. these pictures were taken with my christmas present, a mamiya m645



i always want to be with my own family

 

the problem with taking pictures with old cameras is that it takes too long to get your pictures back... here are some from our trip home. my gramma's funeral, my family all together again, and enough pancakes to feed an army. literally.

this month we are going to chicago to see a my all time favourite band (mind, they have been split up for 6 years...so this is old, beloved music of mine...) that i thought i'd never see and a dave matthews band (tyler's all time favourite) concert.  also, 4 sisters, 2 brothers-in-law, 5 nephews, and 1 neice are coming to visit. we will be very busy at other concerts, drive ins, palmyra, niagra falls, chasing lions and taking lots of pictures. i accidentally let my nephews take pictures with my believed "indestructable" digital while i was home and they accidentally broke it beyond repair, so we will have to find some kind of replacement for snap shots. wish us luck...