Day Fifteen-Sihouette

Pulled over near SF State on my way home last night because I really liked the way the trees were back light and thought I could pull off a nice silhouette. Then, a golfer walked by and made for the perfect element to show the scale of the trees. I also like how he pops out from the green grass. I missed his swing because I was lurking from across the street and a bunch of cars went past but, hey, that's the life of a lurk. Moral of the story: lurking on strangers is all about timing. And lurkability. Think I made that up? That's because I did.

Day fifteen of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green 

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love
Day Ten: Childhood Memory 
Day Eleven: Something Blue 
Day Twelve: Sunset  
Day Thirteen: Myself with 13 Things
Day Fourteen: Eyes

Day Fourteen-Eyes

The second is my favorite, I think laughing eyes totally work for any "eyes" assignment, but I paired it with the first one to be sure. This is Jo, talk about taking a look on the bright side. It's good to see her be able to laugh with everything her family is going through. Positive vibes.

Super late post! I just finished packing and wanted to get my post up. I was really out of it this weekend and with traveling this week I hope to be inspired to stay on top of things. I'm thinking some of my posts this week might come from my iPhone as I am out and about being a tourist in Chicago. I don't know why I decided to take a week and a half instead of two as I could barely concentrate today and I still have tomorrow to go. I don't think "Sorry, my brain is already on vacation" is a good excuse, but it's true. It's already out of here.

How was your weekend?

Day fourteen of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green 

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love
Day Ten: Childhood Memory 
Day Eleven: Something Blue 
Day Twelve: Sunset  
 Day Thirteen: Myself with 13 Things

Day Thirteen-Myself with 13 Things

Today I started packing for my trip to Chicago and Traverse City, Michigan. I leave on Tuesday and I have never really packed ahead of time in my life. Why? Because when I try to pack ahead of time I take things out and forget to put them back, so I figure if I put everything in at the same time as close as possible to when I leave it will work out great. Also, I have always hated packing because I decide what I am going to wear every morning based on my mood and what colors I'm feeling. How could I possibly know how I am going to feel two days out, let alone a week!

Well, turns out throwing random crap into a suitcase two hours before I'm supposed to be at the airport has not worked wonders either so, in the spirit of change, I decided to make outfits for myself. I was thinking about packing at the same time I was thinking "What the hell am I going to do for a picture of myself with 13 things," and BOOM. Light bulb moment, people. And it turns out pulling stuff out of the closet really helps you realize things that would go great together than you never really thought about before, DOUBLE WIN. I have six outfits so far, which might be just fine since I will probably want to be comfortable over stylish some days when I'm in Michigan.

In case you're counting, the 13th thing is the scarf. I know it's going to be hot and humid but I wear a scarf pretty much every day and the thought of not having one (or five) makes me really nervous. It's kind of my thing. Call me crazy if you want but I have good scarf taste and I'm not trying to hide it.

Day thirteen of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green 

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love
Day Ten: Childhood Memory 
Day Eleven: Something Blue 
Day Twelve: Sunset 

Day Twelve-Sunset

Late post today. I will tell you I have been in slow motion all day so it's no surprise I'm barely getting this is in by midnight. Yesterday after work I went to a friend's house to catch up at about 7. The sun was still up and shining so I decided I would eat something and go for a stroll once it started getting golden outside. But, instead, I got carried away catching up and next thing I know I look out the window and it's totally dark. Fail.

So today I did my day thirteen assignment and kept in the back of my mind that I could not miss another sunset. It was foggy all day over here in the Sunset and after I ran some errands I thought if there was any hope of seeing the sun I would have to go across town. I hopped on the freeway towards downtown ready to stop wherever it was peaking through. No such luck, the entire city was covered in a thick blanket of low, gray fog. So I decided to go somewhere high as fast as possible before any more light fell off.

Here is a summer evening in San Francisco. I'm sure there were lots of shivering tourists today. They always pack way too optimistically and then end up buying all those SF jackets and fleeces, you know the ones I'm talking about if you live here or if you have ever been to Fisherman's Wharf. They all have a SF patch with a Golden Gate Bridge on one side of the zipper. As if a fanny pack doesn't give away the fact that you're a tourist fast enough.

To add to my aforementioned fail, I get home to find that the fog above the ocean had blown away, which probably made for a great photo opt. (Deep, cleansing, patience-inducing breath. Trying not to be bitter.) Que sera, sera.

Day twelve of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green 

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love
Day Ten: Childhood Memory 
Day Eleven: Something Blue 

Day Eleven-Something Blue

These guys sit on my monitor at work. I get one when I order stuff from Photojojo. The blue one came in the box with my "Keep Calm and Snap On" poster and the other I got yesterday with my new camera bag. It's funny, I never even realized that dinosaur is blue before. All of the sudden yesterday I looked at it and thought, "Hey! That's blue!" When you are looking for "something blue" suddenly you see things that you didn't pay much attention to before. The same thing happened on my "something green" day, but blue was different because there's not as much blue around as there is green. Especially on a day like today when the weather couldn't make up it's mind and there were only little blue spots between gray clouds. Hoping for some sun tomorrow so I can take my lunch outside and remember that there is a whole world going on outside our freezing cold, over-air-conditioned office.

Day eleven of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green 

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love
Day Ten: Childhood Memory 

Day Ten-Childhood Memory

Here are some glances at a park my sister and I used to play at when we were younger. It's right next to the apartment complex where we used to live and down the street from where I work now. I went by yesterday after work at about six and the light was really nice.

We used to yell into these things to communicate across the park. Even though you could never really understand what the other person said it was really fun.

I used to slide this thing like a mad woman.

I hope you are having a good Thursday. It's almost Friday! I am especially excited because next Tuesday I leave for Chicago! After three days in Chi Town we will relax in Traverse City, Michigan for a week. I think my brain is already on vacation.

Day ten of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit
Day Nine: Someone You Love

Day Nine-Someone You Love

Luckily, Stephen is also a photographer so when I asked him to be my subject first thing when he walked in the door he was not shocked. I got him to be still for all of five seconds. He was much more concerned with the new game he downloaded onto my iPhone called "Nuts!" where you are a squirrel running up a tree collecting coins, not nuts. Does that make sense to you? Good, it shouldn't.

Does he look pensive up there? Because in reality he is watching The Office while holding my ipod with his squirrel game paused. The outtakes below are more representative of the shoot.

If you or someone you know is interested in skateboarding check out his new weekly post on Slap Magazine's website called "Triple Double." Click here to check out the first Triple Double post. Do it!

Day nine of what?

Day One: Selfie
Day Two: What I Wore
Day Three: Clouds
Day Four: Something Green

Day Five: From a High Angle

Day Six: From a Low Angle

Day Seven: Fruit 

Day Eight: A Bad Habit