Spring (happily!)

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted. Shamefully long. What can I say, work and life got in the way.  I don't want to go into the gory details of the long hours in the office, but thankfully a bit of the time keeping me from this blog was spent having fun.  I went rock climbing for the first time, enjoyed some good baseball with friends, started a book club, etc. 

And I had the honor (with my friend Laura) last weekend of being my friend Lauren's wedding photographer (can't wait to share those pics!).  She got married at City Hall and the reception was at Queens County Farm Museum.  What a neat spot, tucked away in the middle of Queens, a little farm with animals and hay rides.

To warm up, so to speak, for the evening of phototaking, I stopped on my way into the farm to take some photos of these tulips.  Oh, tulips! How happy they make me!  They are such a sure sign of spring and the end of cold, dreary winter.

(Queens County Farm Museum, photographed May 2011)

Inspiration Station

Hi again.  It's been awhile.

There was a bit of a hiatus in posting.  Three weeks, in fact.  With work and friends and a surprisingly active social calender, I didn't have the time or energy to organize any posts.  What's worse is that I wasn't even taking photos.  I was uninspired.  Blame it on the snow, the cold weather, the grey days...  I didn't feel like taking out my camera, because, really, what was I going to take a photo of? The dirty, slushy streets? The garbage that sat outside for days waiting for pick up?  One word.  Gross.

But then something changed.

The weather became decidedly spring-like.  Mind you, it was only for a weekend.  But what a glorious, lovely, long weekend it was.  I took the train from nyc to dc, to visit my friend Meghan (aka my cruising bestie).  We bopped all around dc, and suddenly I felt inspired.  Maybe it was sun, maybe it was all the time outdoors, but, let me tell you, I took a lot of photos.  Including these.  Which generally don't involve the sun or the outdoors, despite my prior comment.  Apparently, I was also inspired by the dc underground, too. 

FYI - these were all taken with my iphone, using the instagram app (a new favorite of mine). 

 

 

(Metro, Washington D.C., photographed February 2011)