oops and hi.

we'd been quite bad at keeping up with this blog. terrible. we'll try a bit better in a little while. unpacking is a job that neither m nor i are particularly good at. we're getting there though. it's a slow process but our place is starting to feel a bit like home.

sunday collection #20

seashells...
...from Ivan.

this was taken a couple of weekends ago. it was a sunny Saturday and we had an impromptu picnic trip to this place called Bellevue Beach, about an hour and half outside St. John's. i'm actually not sure if we found our intended beach destination, but we did have our picnic in a beautiful pond somewhere there and a couple of minutes up the road is an amazing rocky beach.

will post more pictures from this little day trip sometime soon!

winged migration.

okay, seagulls don't migrate. or do they?

i've done my own migration, temporarily, out west and across the border to be with m. and more semi-permanently later on.

for now, we are having an incredibly hot, hot, hot weather around here. even the back of my knees are sweating! not pretty. i'm wishing for the Atlantic breeze to cool me down. and moo moo's soft serve ice cream would be nice, too.

sunday collection 19: rosy

a gust of wind blew all the petals off...

our old apartment.

i returned the keys to our old place yesterday. the thought of leaving this apartment of ours -- which has been our home for nearly a year-- is, frankly, a little bit sad.

goodbye apartment! i must say we've had some pretty amazing and awesome times together. here's to you and to us!

summer.

summer has finally come our way. it's a little humid and sticky but we'll take it. it's so nice to be able to wear flip flops and not feel like your toes are going to get a frostbite!

sunday collection #18

New fridge.

A collection of my priorities. As it were...

meet me here.

now that you've done all that driving all the way over there, do you want to meet me here?
or here?

moving roadtrip day 10

This is the gorge on the way out of Twin Falls. We got lost on the way in looking for our hotel the night prior...

Goodbye Uhaul. And good riddance! Though I guess it did serve us well...

The scenery changes a great deal around Oregon.

And now this is getting very familiar...

Future hiking location.

I feel like this unfortunate little guy, squished by my new door. I'm so very tired right now.

But, 7100 hot kilometers later - finally made it.

moving roadtrip day 9

Finally, almost to the other coast.

I've stared at this ad for so long that when I close my eyes I see the "lowest decks" arrow on my eyelids...

Best rest area ever.

moving roadtrip day 8

Pictures! I hope my crappy road pictures aren't too boring just yet...

As close as we got to July 4 celebrations last night.

Rather oversized for a pedestrian overpass in the middle of nowhere if you ask me...

This is the best picture of that Lincoln statue ever taken - bar none. ; )

Goodnight!

moving roadtrip day 7

It's macro day on the moving roadtrip!

Also, turnpikes are boooring.

sunday collection #17

hangers.

sorry we missed a sunday collection last week. we were busy packing!

moving roadtrip day 6

We're near Chicago now and the east cost clouds have all burnt off. All that's left is the moon.

And an opportunistic not-sea gull...