.420 color and still

"when life gives you lemons...(ask for tequila and salt)"

author unknown

"keep your coins, we want change"

banksy

“i can ask for cigarettes in every language” 

david bowie

i had a goal in mind, to replace certain photos in my still life gallery on my website.

(though only 2 of these photos made the cut)

.388 day 363

arts and crafts is my favorite part of our day.

we painted and colored and traced and stamped

and made a special card for grandparents day.

toots: who is that baby with grandma.

me: that's you. that's baby tootie.

toots: i not a baby. i big and strong.

me: indeed, you are, but you used to be a baby.

toots: I NOT A BABY.

[silence]

me: fine. that isn't you.

toots: told you so.

.370 day 346

i like her hair cut. 60's mod'ish. when the seasons are cool and i am straight-haired, this is the era i wear. 

.368 day 344

iPhonography.

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i originally shot this with my iPhone for the fmsphotoaday instagram challenge. theme: peek-a-boo.

.346 day 323

ventured out to flat land so toots could practice more pedaling and steering on her tricycle. a slight hill made her little legs flail rapidly and the lack of tree and shade depleted our energies soon enough. she became more interested in carving pictures on the green wall with a stick and i became more interested in taking pictures next to said green wall. less than an hour later, after the mosquitoes had their fill and our afros shrunk two sizes from perspiration, we both were kinda over it...