august break finale

31: smile

Got a bouquet of flowers and how does that not make anyone smile?

30: sign

A sign that the Greek parents have arrived. More Greek food in the house. These cans of oil kind of shocked me when they were revealed out of their wooden crate. I don't know why I thought they would arrive in tiny artisan bottles when all I've ever seen olive oil in in Greece are huge knee-high gasoline-style cans.

29: your fave thing

Mini nutellas (single servings?).

28: smell

Movie theatre popcorn.

27: number

Just some fridge magnet numbers.

26: YES

Spotted what looks like a chokecherry bush on my walk in the morning. I'd like to pick it clean for jam if it is.

25: Sunday morning

Mom gave me a huge zucchini so what better way to use it than to put it in a chocolate zucchini cake. I need to find a better recipe, though.

24: hear

I originally did a little video of bird talking but it wouldn't upload, so I got a picture of my flute instead. I should really sell it. It makes me sad when things aren't getting used the way they should be.

23: sacred

I've had this smiling Buddha since high school.

22. midday

It's kinda hard to see but there's a huge spider hanging there. Our yard has been completely over-run by spiders this year. Big huge brown and white ones about the size of a loonie or twonnie. Other than the odd one making a web in a door or walkway, we haven't really been bothered by them. This one's been living above our garage door all summer, not bothering us at all, but then she suddenly decided to change the angle of her web which required her to put long support threads attached to the pavement in front of the door. We relocated her to the back of the garage.

21: something old

Just a pic of my gram on a motorbike. No biggie.

And that's the end of the August break!

august break recap

20: taste

I finally got some groceries today so we don't have to starve between meals anymore.

19: white

You can find these guys in the parking lot at the WEM Target, upstairs. (Also are you as super disappointed in Target as I am? There's not a thing in there that interests me.)

18: looking down

This is on the sidewalk in our subdivision. It kinda struck me as a weird place for this sort of graffiti since that area is pretty new. 

I skipped #17: touch because nothing came up that whole day that I thought would make a good touch picture (also I think 'touch' is kind of a difficult photo prompt to begin with).

16: floral

Paper flowers I spotted in a store.

15: books

We walked through Lethbridge University since Idle Husband wanted to see where I went to school, so this is their library.

14: stillness

We'd just been driving for hours back into Alberta and stopped for lunch. It was nice to be sitting still.

13: home (or home away from home in our case)

Our hotel pool in which we spent a lot of time because it was almost always empty save for 2 or 3 people at a time. When we got to our next hotel, we learned a really good lesson about hotel pools. Always book a hotel WITHOUT a waterslide. Waterslides = a bajillion kids from the time it opens till the time it closes. (Needless to say, we did not do any swimming at the second hotel which seriously bummed us out. We thought it would look a little weird being the only people in the pool without kids or at the very least a baby. We'd look a little molesty or something, right? I'm sure we made the right call. And besides, PEE.)

12: far away

Some B.C. mountains (or maybe we were still in Alberta, who can ever tell?).

11: play

Idle Husband's Greek chess set.

We've just returned from our mini vacation, but I enjoy taking and posting these photos on Instagram and twitter a lot more than uploading them here one at a time. So if you'd like to see the photos as they happen, follow me on twitter or instagram. Otherwise, I think I'll just post recaps once or twice a week.

red

10: red

Just a bunch of red stuff, obviously! I did some photos like these before in a bunch of different colours here (my wonder woman pez dispenser turns up in those, too).

09: taste

These are some granola bars I whipped up yesterday. They're actually more like healthier cookies than what I would consider a granola bar. They're good all the same, plus it gave me a good use for my home-dried cherries. Anyway, I made them, I had the picture, and then I totally forgot to post it. So my bad on that one!

08: a selfie

I don't like taking pictures of myself so this is probably the best you'll get here.

07: skyline

Admittedly, I cheated with this one. Wednesday it rained off and on, and I didn't really want to have just a picture of a bunch of house rooftops and grey sky that I took through a window. I snapped this one initially for yellow but ended up using another one instead.

diagonals

06: diagonals

just one of (too) many driftwood pieces in my home

I decided to take my weekend and holiday photos through Instagram. So just in case you missed the August Break pictures from this long weekend, here they are again:

 03. yellow

fabric samples at Crate and Barrel

04. love

Hermes. More his love of his mirror than me of him.

05. close up

An accidental photo at a jewelry counter. I was taking a picture of a bracelet I wanted to copy, but a slip of the thumb produced this instead.

If you're on Instagram, you might want to follow me if you're not already. We've got a vacation coming up, so I'll be posting primarily over there. If you're not on Instagram, don't worry! I'll be sure to do a recap when I'm back in front of my main computer!

circles

Beaded coasters I bought on clearance at Urban Outfitters a number of years ago. They're wall art now.

breakfast

 I'm on a raisin kick these days. Raisin bran; homemade whole wheat cinnamon raisin bread.

breakfast clematis

the august break

You've probably noticed there's not a whole lot of stuff going on around here these days. That's mostly because I've been feeling extremely uninspired and unmotivated to blog these last couple of months. Nothing has been exciting me and I've been feeling like there's no reason to even bother.

So I suppose it's kind of silly to participate in the August Break when I've already half taken a break, but I thought that having a specific goal and planned target every day might motivate and inspire me to take pictures and come up with crafts again.

If you want to know more about the August Break, go and check out Susannah Conway's blog where you can read all about it, sign up, get the list of daily photo prompts (which I'm going to try my best to follow), and download badges, pictures, and more.

You'll see me posting more often as I follow the photo-a-day challenge (which it is for me, anyway) starting August 1!

(I think I'm already a little excited about this.)