Happy Mother's Day

My beautiful Mom. Feel incredibly blessed to have a Mom who has such a kind heart and generous spirit. I love you Mom! Happy Mother's Day!

I also wishing Happy Mother's Day to my other Mom - Michael's Mom. I have come to know such a sweet woman and love her dearly! 

52 Lists - Week 18

Week 18 - List The Ways You are Energized
spending quality time with Michael - creating art - sitting at my work table late at night - doing something creative - editing photos, writing poetry - going on photo adventures & poetry dates with Michael - looking art - reading inspiring books that touch me - cleaning house and having a clean house - journaling - finishing a project - spending time with friends - talking on the phone or chatting online with friends - drinking a glass of ice water - taking a hot shower - listening to music - Sunshine & spring - checking things off my to-do list

Challenge - I will spend time re-energized by....

spending time at my work table creating 

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. seeing Michael's parents
2. getting to socialize with people I really like and enjoy their company
3. burgers at Sam's No 3 - SO SO GOOD!
4. writing poetry and drawing doodles
5. 10 years of living Colorado with Michael

M + D

Today is an anniversary of sorts - 10 years ago I moved from Ohio to Colorado to be with an amazing man that I love even more today than that snowy day in 2003. It was the best move ever.

* photo - I took up at Hays Falls when we were there recently. 

Stuffed Peppers

Michael and I have had these a couple times now. They are a low carb option when craving Philly cheese steak sandwiches. It also was a nice change from how I usually do stuffed peppers.  I have used a combo of red, yellow and orange peppers as Michael isn't fond of green peppers.  

Philly Cheese Steak Stuffed Peppers

2 large bell peppers

8 oz thinly sliced roast beef

8 slices provolone cheese

1 medium sweet onion - sliced

1 cup mushrooms - sliced

Preheat oven to 400◦. Slice peppers in half lengthwise removing ribs and seeds. Sauté until onions and mushrooms are nice and caramelized. Slice roast beef into thin strips and add onion/mushroom mixture. Cook 5-7 mins. Line the inside of each pepper with provolone cheese and fill each with meat mixture until they are overflowing. Top each pepper with another slice of provolone cheese and bake for 15-20 mins until cheese is golden brown. 

Everybody Hurts

52 Week Photo Project: Week 18

Michael had some work to do in Carbondale yesterday so we had a little day trip. This is a view of Mt. Sopris on the way to Carbondale. 

We also had a chance to go to Hays Falls and to the top of McClure pass.  Both of which were so nice to see again. It is a favorite spot of ours. 

52 Lists - Week 17

I did this list and well I would really like to publicly share the people on the list, but I realized it was a little too personal and I didn't feel the need to share it with the world.  Instead I have been crafting some emails, cards, notes and packages for people I admire as I feel it is a better way to do this weeks list.

I will say I am constantly in a state of admiration by the depth of feeling, inspiration and just kindness of people in sharing of themselves.  I see it daily offline in people as well as through updates of friends and family on Facebook, people I follow on Instagram and Pinterest. So many people inspire me and make me think and I admire each.

Play on Little Children

Dan Dyer - "Play On Little Children" from Paste Magazine on Vimeo.

Brain Pickings which is a daily read for me offers up Literary Jukebox - a song and quote.  This is a song from it.

52 Week Photo Project: Week 17

Michael and I had several opportunities for photos this week....not only the ones I am posting, but we had an outing to a cemetery where we took a walk and snapped a lot of photos.  These photos were taken at Riverbend Park in Palisade.  The bottom two are of Mt. Garfield which is a landmark we can see throughout Grand Junction.

52 Lists - Week 16

I love to read. I often have several books on my nightstand.  I keep track of the books I read on Goodreads.com and love that I can have it on my phone and scan barcodes in. This was a hard list to not keeping adding more and more to. You can see the books I have read this year so far I have read 54.

Week 16 - Favorite Books
The Valkyries - Paulo Coehlo
The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coehlo
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
The Gifts of Imperfection - Dr. Brene Brown
Life is a Verb - Patti Digh
Inner Excavation - Liz Lamoruex
Brave on the Rocks - Sabrina Ward Harrison
Return to Love - Marianne Williamson
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1  - Mary Oliver
Home Comforts - Cheryl Mendelson
The Mermaid Chair - Susan Monk Kidd
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz
PoemCrazy - Susan Wooldridge
Living the Creative Life - Rice Freeman-Zachery
Green Guide for Artists - Karen Michel
The Artists Way - Julia Cameron
Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg

Challenge: I will read...
A Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg - which I did start to read and decided I wasn't ready to read it although it looks like a good book just not a theme I want to read about right now.

No excuses ... just do it ...

Some friends of mine growing up are having a tough time.

Kids that lived down the alley from us - one of the boys has cancer that has spread throughout his body.  He's currently in hospice where they are trying to make him as comfortable as he begins to pass onto the next leg of his Journey.  Reading the comments on Facebook has been tough.  I feel sadness for them all.

We take a lot of things for granted.

As busy as things have been in the last several months - I know I've lost track of things.  Dates going by, weeks running into one another - and before long it'll be summer.

That's why it's important to make the time to do special things.  For us - whether it's poetry dates or photography ... it's about making the invested time and allowing us to breathe in that moment.

...because we ultimately don't know what'll happen tomorrow - but it's our own fault if we don't make it count today, tomorrow and the days that follow.  We have it in our ability to do it ... and we need to stop making excuses for why we don't.

Just Give Me a Reason

52 Week Photo Project: Week 16

Michael had a job in Pueblo this past week and one night we were driving back from dinner when I spotted all these murals.  I didn't mention it that night as I thought maybe it was just graffiti.  But when we passed by it again the next day - I said something to him so he found a way to get me close so I could take some photos.  They were really amazing murals and glad I got a chance to see them. 

52 Lists - Week 15

I have collected quotes for as long as I can remember. Just picking a handful for this list was really hard on me.  In this photo there are 3 journals from high school to college that are full of quotes I collected. Some I read now and shake my head why I put that in there and others I forgot about and thankful to find again.  I have a lot of quotes on my On the Inside board on Pinterest and also My Map board. I also have a tag on here for quotes I post to the blog.

Week 15 - Favorite Quotes

"He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe."   - Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - - Rumi

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it." - From Paulo Coelho's book The Pilgrimage

“When you open your heart and mind to new perceptions you are shown a whole new way to view your life. - Gabrielle Bernstein - Spirit Junkie

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging." ~Brené Brown

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . .Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question - Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no  use."  -- Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings
of Don Juan

“We have to choose joy and keep choosing it.” - Henri JM Nouwen

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy-the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” - Brene Brown


Challenge: I will live out one of my quotes by....
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” - Brene Brown

One thing I am trying to focus on is accepting myself as I am.  Often I think I do give others more kindness than I give myself.  So this year I am trying to be gentle, kind and encouraging to myself as well as others.

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. Michael starting to feel better....not great yet, but better.
2. a successful time in Pueblo
3. getting through the snow storm. We traveled through one to get to Pueblo - even though it is sunny and green now
4. a nice evening snapping photos with Michael
5. heading home tomorrow

Boston

From the Poem Boston by Samantha Reynolds: 
"without the triumph they deserved
without the simplicity of tomorrow
without the trust that a sidewalk
won’t rupture and swallow them again"

The poem says what I had been thinking and feeling as I listened to the news yesterday. 

Big Bright World

52 Week Photo Project: Week 15

This is a photo I took and then used a program on the iPhone called Zitrr Camera to make it into a sketch.  It is of the check-in door of Radiology. Our week started off rocky with Michael making a trip to his regular doctor and then to check and make sure he didn't have a blood clot in his leg at Radiology in the hospital. He didn't thankfully, but we have spent a lot of time in doctors offices this week as his treatment was an antibiotic and he broke out from that so was back in the doctors office. So 2 trips to the doctor office and one to radiology this week. I know he is ready to heal and not be back in a doctor's office for a bit - even though he does have a follow up tomorrow.

52 Lists: Week 14

As you will see from these lists I put artist in capital letters on both lists. The reason is that for always I have wanted to be an artist. Of course there were other flitting moments that  I thought about other jobs, but really always always I have wanted to be an artist and only an artist, but pushed it away for a multitude of reasons. Yes it is fun to dream of other things, but I am an artist and it took so long to speak those words out loud and mean them that I don't ever want to turn my back on it again. I am an artist.

Week 14 - List your Childhood & Current Dream Jobs
Childhood Dream Job:
ARTIST
Princess
Architect
Archaeologist
Interior Designer
Fashion Designer
Museum Curator
Graphic artist
Singer
Art Teacher
Social Worker

Current Dream Job:
ARTIST

Challenge: How can you integrate one of your dream jobs into your life right now? Keep working on art and finish art website.

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. Michael going to the doctors this week (3 times plus a visit to Radiology) - it is one of the least favorite things for him, but I was very worried about him so thankful he went and is getting treated.
2. an easier night for him tonight than last
3. finding dye-free Benydrl today
4. chatting with a good friend this week. She has been in my thoughts and glad to get a chance to talk to her.
5. chatting with another good friend this week as she helped us out by looking at some photos of Michael's bug bit/rash and helping give him some relief before we could go to the doctors.
6. lemon poppy seed muffins - such an amazing treat
7. getting a chance to see family while in Denver
8. Pantry and freezer stocked - been a while since I did some stocking of supplies
9. meal planning and prep - I have done a lot of prep this week so that when it comes to making meals it should be easier on me.
10. Michael buying me the first season of Downton Abbey on DVD
11. being home although we leave again next week
12. pretty trees blooming for Spring

Judgement

From Don't Let Anyone's Criticism or Judgment Define Who You Are on TinyBuddha:
"Ultimately, I realized that I felt insecure because I was carrying around the words and judgments I’d heard at different points in my life as if they were written into the code of my DNA."

I have done that for 45 years. Some judgement I have been able to let go, but some just linger and haunt me. But it is one thing I continually work on - letting them go.

Sarah Kay

I love TED...as I always discover talented, brilliant, amazing people through it.  Sarah Kay does two poems and both have that element I love about poetry....connection.  You hear a line and it says "you are not alone."    I am not sure I could ever do spoken word poetry, but I love it and love how it makes me feel...even when it is sad.  Again it is feeling that connection.

No Poem

52 Week Photo Project: Week 14

Michael and I have been traveling a lot for his work lately. We went to Breckenridge this past week. I snapped this photo while going through Glenwood Springs one of my favorite areas along I-70.  

52 Lists - Week 13

Week 13 - List Things that You Want to Make
art - gifts - a happy life - connections - love, joy & compassion - wall art - prints and mixed media - home changes - painting walls, changing out hardware on cabinets - yard changes - container gardens - curtains for kitchen & dining room -  continue to make homemade cleaners - cookies to mail to friends - care packages for friends and family - a studio that inspires easily - a new recipe monthly - Big Initials for living room wall - take ordinary spoons and create art on them to hang in the kitchen - lotion - lists - doodles & hand lettering - doodle/draw on rocks

Challenge - This week I will make....Freezer smoothie packs

A Good Relationship

From TinyBuddha's FB status today: 
"Good relationships don't just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who truly want to be together." ~Unknown

A good life lesson and one I have learned over the years - good relationships just don't happen. I think we like to think that when you love someone - the relationship will just be magically connected together by love and make it a good relationship, but it takes more than love. It does need love - a lot of it, but time, patience and wanting to be together is really key too. I love spending time with Michael. He works from home so a lot of our time is spent together and when we aren't together - I miss him fiercely!  

National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month in April. Now that I am writing poetry - I read more of it too. I find out more about it and never would I have known it was National Poetry Month without it now being a passion.  So in the month of April going to be sharing links, bits and pieces and videos to some Poets I have discovered with my Poem Crazy Passion.

A few weeks ago I discovered Shane Koyczan.  He was on TED to do this poem about bullying. It is called To This Day and it is intense and amazing.  I cry every time I watch it.

Sweet Disposition

52 Week Photo Project: Week 13

Well this photo wasn't taken by me, but it fulfills my requirement for what I wanted 52 Weeks to be about and that is capturing moments in my life.  This past week I had a chance to do some art and accidently put my hand in  the paint palette. When I pulled it away, I liked the way it looked so added a little more paint and then Michael took some photos of me with my hand in front of my face.

52 Lists: Week 12

Week 12 - List things that Feel Like Home
 Michael - my parents - my sisters - close friends - the kitty cats - tea with cream - Sunday Mornings - drives through Colorado - seeing the mountains - remembering on old memories - an old teddy bear and blanket  -  photographs of loved ones - my extended family and Michael’s family - hearing a North Dakota accent - art - expressing myself & creating in all sorts of different ways - chocolate pie made by my Mom - most anything  made by my Mom - snuggled up on the couch with Michael watching movies -  Thanksgiving - baking - cleaning - my notebooks - joy & compassion - connection - Asian food - Chocolate - books - Lefse

Challenge:  I will enjoy my home this week by....Being present at home as we have been out of town so much lately.

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. receiving a coloring book from a dear friend before we left for Idaho. I love to color and it was a such a nice surprise.
2. Spring Weather even though my allergies are not liking it
3. Sunny day
4. Date with Michael to Red Robin - using a gift card he received for his birthday.
5. books that inspire me from the 1st page

From Now On

52 Week Photo Project: Week 12

On our way to Idaho this past week, we hit several rainstorms and after each one we saw rainbows.  I ended up snapping rainbow photo after rainbow photo.  Michael finally said, "No more or all your photos will be of rainbows" I replied, "there could be nothing better than rainbow photos!"

Here is the one I submitted for Week 12's photo....

52 Lists: Week 11

Right now a lot of my work on myself has been about seeking balance. Sometimes I know things, but I get to caught into the busy and life starts to drag me down so that I forget key elements of ME.  Doing art and making the time to do art is essential for keeping balance in my life. When I let it go, I fall down.  I start out just feeling a little off, then it moves to being blue and finally it will sink into a full depression that is hard to pull up and out of when I fall there. So really pushing hard to be able to have my balance.  I also have noticed that although other creative outlets help me from sinking - it is my art that really keeps me centered and grounded in ME.  

I have decided from now on that I am packing a little art kit to go with me on the road when Michael and I travel.  On our way to Idaho, I told Michael about it, but mentioned I was rushed and wished I had put a few other things in it. He stopped and bought me some supplies to supplement it.  He is amazing and so supportive of me and what I need. I am a very lucky woman!

Week 11: List Your Essenstials
* Michael
* Love
* Time with Michael
* Connection & Friendship
* Family
* Self -Kindness
* Artful living
* Gratitude
* Therapy
* Water
* Take Meds
* Sleep
* Movement
* Clean House
* Lists, notebooks, art journal
* Expressing myself through journaling, poetry, photography, art and just through the things I do daily
* Learning and Growing
* Being true to myself
* Seeing JOY in ordinary moments
* Make good Food choices
* Loyalty and Honesty
* Open and Understanding
* Exploring Life
* Compassion
* Reading
* Tea, lip balm, good lotion
* our kitty cats
* Inspiration
* Light
* Time to reflect

This weeks Challenge: Seeking Balance - trying to balance everything and include doing art in there.

Join in doing 52 Lists hosted by Moorea Seal.  I love them and it has been not only fun, but really interesting exploring some areas I buried or never really noticed about myself.  #52lists2013

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. getting to met a long time friend from online - in person. She is just as beautiful in person as I have gotten from her all these years online.
2. having an amazing meal out with her last night at Gino's
3. Godfather's pizza - it something Michael and I miss and Salt Lake City has one so we stopped there for pizza
4. Michael stopping and getting me some supplies to add to my art pack
5. getting some time for art while away from home

On the Road

Photo from our early morning departure. We arrived safely in Idaho.

100 Things | Owls

31. I like Owls. 

I have always liked owls, but the last several years I have fallen love with them more.  I have a small collection of them.  Some favorites are a little stone owl my sisters gave me, 3 hanging owls I received for Christmas one year from a good friend, a handmade bag with little owls all over it given to for my birthday by my good friend Kathie  and now the owls in the photo. These adorable owls were handmade by my good friend Tammy. She made each of them different and they are so cute and unique! I love them and enjoy seeing them hang around the house.

Soon to Meet a Friend

Sour Cream Cookies
made for my friend and her family

Today I am cleaning like a mad woman. We are going out of town and I hate coming home to a dirty house and often when we are leaving for a trip things end up looking like a tornado hit the house because I am packing and throwing things all over to find things for our trip.

Most of the time though I am lucky and do get a chance to clean things up so we aren't coming home to a dirty house. I change sheets and towels and sprinkle essential oils throughout the house so that when we come home and open the door it smells good too.

I also baked some cookies because I get to met a friend while in Idaho.

When Michael first found out he was going to Idaho, he asked me if I wanted to go because he remembered I have a friend I have known online for almost 10 years that I haven't met face to face who lives in the area. Of course I jumped on that chance and in a few days I will meet her and I am so excited!

Her and I bonded on a menu planning group years ago. Soon after we became fast friends enjoying Firefly, cooking, tea, books, the color purple and so many other things. In a few days we will be able to talk about all those wonderful things face to face - laugh and hug and just enjoy each other's company. Really EXCITED!

Women are Heros too

Quote from a piece by Henry Rollins in regards to the Steubenville rapes: "So, how do you fix that? I’m just shooting rubber bands at the night sky but here are a few ideas: Put women’s studies in high school the curriculum from war heroes to politicians, writers, speakers, activists, revolutionaries and let young people understand that women have been kicking ass in high threat conditions for ages and they are worthy of respect.

Total sex ed in school. Learn how it all works. Learn what the definition of statutory rape is and that it is rape, that date rape is rape, that rape is rape."

Love Will Take You

52 Week Photo Project: Week 11

We took a road trip on Thursday and Friday. This is a photo of a spot on our way home on Friday. The area is one of my favorites between Hanging Flume and Gateway, Colorado.  It is so beautiful and the light was just perfect.

52 Lists: Week 10

Week 10: List Ways You can Cleanse for Spring
* Spring Cleaning the house in general - but areas I really want to tackle:
My clothes (donate what I don’t wear/need)
The Laundry room shelves/cupboards
My studio
My studio closet!!
Michael’s Office
*Shredding paper - something I always get behind in
* My Studio - Listed above for spring cleaning, but really want it to flow  better so reorganize & possibly rearrange set up
* My files on my computer - need to backup as well as purge things
* meditation and therapy - always help me  keep my body and mind
more centered
* Continue Eat well - but review areas that I can make some
more changes to help
* Keep my balance by being creative - not only  poetry and photography,  but creating art - sitting  at my art table and painting, gluing, and scribbling.
* Dye my hair and get a haircut
* Make a homemade body scrub and do a pamper day for Michael & myself

The Weekly Challenge: Clean out Fridge and Freezer and I did it right after making this list

Join in doing 52 Lists hosted by Moorea Seal.  I love them and it has been not only fun, but really interesting exploring some areas I buried or never really noticed about myself.  #52lists2013

Gratitude Friday

Hanging Flume 

I am thankful for...
1. getting to spend so much time with my love
2. beautiful drive to Durango
3. beautiful drive back home
4. seeing new scenery
5. having fun with my love on a road trip

My Map

Pinterest is one big mood board, but I created one board on it for my vision of myself - basically creating a vision board for what I seek for myself.

Here are a few things on it....

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Turning Page

52 Week Photo Project: Week 10

Just playing with the red peppers we got before I chopped them up.

52 Lists: Week 9

Week 9: List the Places You want to Go
* an art retreat
* on more Poetry Dates with Michael
* to my art table weekly
* Santa Fe, NM again
* NYC, Chicago, Seattle
* Estes Park, CO
* to see my family
* to see Kaylee & Travis
* to see Kathie & Jeff
* to get a tattoo
* a Buddhist group chant/meditation
* to Crested Butte - the waterfall I saw on Pintrest
* Overseas: Ireland, Scotland & England
* visit more art museums
* this one especially someday: The Louvre
* concert - U2 or Coldplay on top of that list
* to see Cirque du Soleil
* back to Ohio to see my old friends there
* on more walks
* local day trips
* Denver Zoo & Botanical Gardens
* Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo
* more local art events
* to the library

Join in doing 52 Lists hosted by Moorea Seal.  I love them and it has been not only fun, but really interesting exploring some areas I buried or never really noticed about myself.  #52lists2013

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1.  being able to help a friend celebrate an anniversary
2. being able to spend some time with friends
3. being able to share some of my excitement about poetry and joy with others
4. a stack of inspiring books
5. burts bees lip balm
6. our kitty cats

Words

I love words so the quotes board on my pinterest is fairly large.  Just posting a few that caught my attention recently....

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52 Lists: Week 8

I love music, but I am horrible at naming songs and groups. So although I love music, I had to actually go into my music, look and listen to find music I knew were favorites. Because I couldn't remember albums for sure, but sometimes artists and names of songs were hard to figure out for me too.  I dug out some record albums to do for this photo.  The list is sitting on top of The Beatles - Let It Be album on the Apple label. Off to the side is Prince - Purple Rain. Not seen in this photo, but out also - U2 - Boy and the soundtrack to Pretty in Pink.

After taking this photo with instagram, I knew I should tag it, but I couldn't remember the tag so I walked back to my computer. I was gone for just a moment and when I came back, one of our cats was sitting on that record.  I was too panicked she was going to scratch or I would have taken a photo. I gently coaxed her off of it and then put it away quickly before something happened to my precious Let It Be record.

Week 8:  List your Favorite Albums
* All Albums by U2
* All Albums by Coldplay
* Adele - 21
* Sting - Nothing Like the Sun
* The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
* Abba - Greatest Hits
* Keane - Under the Iron Sea
* Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
* Beatles -  Let It Be
* Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
* Bob Marley - Legend
* Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits
* John Cash - Folsom Prison
* Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
* Dido - No Angel
* Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
* Eurythmics - Touch
* Queen - A Night at the Opera
* Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
* Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
* Michael Jackson - Thriller
* The Carpenters - Close to You
* The Fixx - Greatest Hits - One Thing Leads To Another
* John Lennon - Imagine
* The Smiths - The Smiths
* REM - Document
* Melissa Etheridge - Skin
* KD Lang - Ingenue
* Duran Duran - Rio
* Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
* Depeche Mode - Violator
* Sade - The Best of Sade
* Live - Secret Samadhi

* Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

* OkGo - Oh No

* Carole King - Tapestry

* Elvis Presley - Elvis' 40 Greatest

* Madonna - Like a Virgin

* Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

* Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

* Prince - Purple Rain

* The Clash - London Calling

* Soundtracks: Across the Universe, Dances with Wolves, Phantom of the Opera, Boys on the Side, Dan in Real Life, The Sound of Music, The Graduate, Pretty in Pink, Beauty and the Beast, Out of Africa, The Piano, Almost Famous,  The Bodyguard, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Saturday Night Fever

Join in doing 52 Lists hosted by Moorea Seal.  I love them and it has been not only fun, but really interesting exploring some areas I buried or never really noticed about myself.  #52lists2013

Requiem on Water

From Breaking Dawn 1 Soundtrack. This past weekend Michael watched the Twilight saga with me. Everyone on Facebook was giving him/us a hard time. Asking why and telling him he was a better man than they were for sitting through them all.  He is a great man! He obviously loves me for sitting through them all.

52 Week Photo Project: Week 9

Last week I was really disappointed in myself for not taking more pictures so this past week I was more aware and conscious of the fact I wanted too take out that camera more.  Michael also upgraded my cell to an iPhone so I  now have the camera there and instagram so I should be taking more photos because of having my phone with me almost always.

That was the case on Friday, Michael had to work downtown Denver so I snapped a few pictures.  This top one was the photo I used in the 52 Photo group on FB.

We were right across the street from the Denver Art Museum  They had a Georgia O'Keefe exhibit going on....wished we could have went to see it, but we were really busy on Friday.

Gratitude Friday

I am thankful for...
1. Safe travels back and forth to Denver - we have had a lot of trips there in the last 3 weeks
2. living in the most beautiful state that continues to leave me in awe
3. seeing so much amazing wildlife on our way to and from Craig this past week
4.  Michael upgrading my phone and now having the ability to communicate and take photos - gives me just an added way of connection to friends and family
5. taking photos this week...as I didn't last week and it made me feel so off about my week.  Like a week was missing so glad I took photos this week and was able to capture moments.