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6.21.2011

Happy [belated] Father's Day

Dad in High School

Grandpa Carl in High School

Happy Father's Day!

Since Big Sur campsites were booked Friday and Saturday, we started off our trip camping with some friends at Pinnacles National Monument, which would have been great had our neighbors at the site not brought two teething twins who screamed their heads off at 5am every morning. Really, who brings angry toddlers camping?

After Pinnacles, Patrick and I headed towards the coast, stopping at the gorgeous Mission San Juan Bautista, where they were having a Fiesta Days celebration.

Aztec dancers

Then we arrived in Big Sur for the Bill Callahan show at Henry Miller Memorial Library. There is something about Big Sur that is so completely magical - the way the fog never quite leaves, the height of the redwoods, the sweet nature of the locals, and the fact that Big Sur itself is not quite a town but more a stretch of the most beautiful highway where each stop is more unique than the last. I dream about having our wedding here, but have to come to terms with it being a logistically difficult/expensive place for a wedding. Anyhow, it is surely in my top-ten list of places on this earth.

Me and my mischievous pup, at our gorgeous campground in Fernwood.

Super Puppy!

Elephant Seals were out on the beach just North of Hearst Castle, molting, mating & sparring. They are the silliest and most fascinating creatures.

& that does it for our little road trip. Now time for a bit of normalcy and nesting at home!

6.14.2011

blue beauty

photographer Camilla Akrans

photographer Mario Testino + Kate Moss

Vogue Brasil May 2011

via Russian Carpet

Manish Arora

6.10.2011

girls with hoses

found via FORGET IT

(orig. source unknown)

June 2011 Anthropologie

All Tied Up, oil on canvas, artist Kelly Reemsten

6.09.2011

Maine in Review

Maine buoys

getting use of my duck boots

at the lobster pound

pre-cooking lobster ritual

driving into the park

my perfect little reading spot

6.06.2011

pack it up.

I feel like both Patrick and I have been livin' out of a suitcase for the past 3 months (I guess because essentially we have), but within the next two days we will both be living in the comfort of our own, cozy home...together. Then later in the week, our puppy dog Henry will be with us, completing our little family once again.

I still have to gather my things so I can bid Maine adieu tomorrow, and the above drawing is giving me the inspiration to do so. This packing list by Adolf Konrad, 1963 is a part of a new show at the Smithsonian called "To-Do's, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists' Enumerations". I wish I could go, but if you're in the area, check out more info here.