sundee afternoon

ga. i love chubby knees in short dresses. this little number, from my favorite new thrift haunt, American Vintage, was begging to be shot in black & white.

we also did have color today.

:: Little today, during a conversation: "wow. mom. this is turning into a long talk."

:: Wee today, while dropping chocolate chips into warm vanilla pudding: "milk, pees."

we capture the canyon

celebrated tracker, Famous Shoes, being busy {also fictional and, dead} we hired the young but scrappy, Sleeps On Her Face, to guide us to the waterfall on Saturday.

ps - does anyone know how to make the pictures clickable/enlargable? i thought it depended on the browser i composed in but apparently it's not that. advice appreciated.

in her studio

in which she is old enough to dress herself

"mom, do you want to drive my eyelashes?"

:: come here. you should use my eyelashes so your eyes don't get cracked.

:: i'm so hungry! hurry, i'm starting to get little!

:: oh, i found a fairy toe under my bottom. [pulls half a cheerio from her car seat.] it's a fairy's head but it's broken.

:: mom, i just want to have the world. i won't break it.

:: i can't work under these connictions!

all of this was just in the last hour. at least she used small enough sound bites for me to remember--usually the crazy manifests as a stream of inchoate exclamations and explanations. i do, completely, love it.

chaco canyon

a couple of hours northwest of albuquerque, at the end or the beginning of a rough dirt road, is this.

girls just wanna have fun, eat cake and not take pictures

walker, texas ranger

guess who decided to join the brave new world of the two-legged, at just 18 months old? this one:

double-digits Gracie:

the San Antonio riverwalk:

ally's ho-tel

Roswell, New Mexico

justin & grace standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona: