You gotta love NYC

You have to have a good time when you are visiting NYC. It's the law.

It is Spring - dressed in yellow

Last weekend we shot Jean Lin's new spring collection. Jean used only recycled fabric for this collection and vowed to keep doing so from now on, which I think is a great idea.

For this Spring shoot we met at a studio in East Boston on the day the time changed to Daylight Saving. How is that for timing! Besides the usual equipment, crew, food, and of course the Jean's Spring Collection, Judy brought the largest bucket of tulips I have ever seen.

Check out the Spring 2011 collection on Jean's website dressed in yellow.



Oh ... and as I am writing this entry there is another picture coming in from Lin's blog ... Makes you wanna spend a long weekend in Amsterdam, no?

Winter Romantic

Family visit on a farm in Denmark.
       


While the snow flakes kept dancing around us, Lina was presented a very special raspberry, and Lukas' glove was sucked on vigorously ... without the anticipated success by the 1 week old baby.

While all humans could retreat inside to where hot chocolate and yummy cake were waiting, others had to stay in the winter wonderland, little icicles going in whiskers.

Just not November yet

You would not believe it was the last day of October. Not by the sun and the leaves and the fun ... we had in the Arboretum this afternoon. I had totally forgotten how wonderful the Arnold Arboretum is ... and the kids were there for the first time. Finding a big garter snake certainly added to the adventure.



A day later (It is November now)...
... I am still thinking about the fun we had:

• The cattail-fluff was everywhere, and I am sure I swallowed some. The light in the cattails was unbeatable for photos.


• The snake left quite an impression too. The biggest Garter snake I had seen so far. And the way it snuggled with Tristan was so cute. It pressed every bit of its body against his warm hands and started to sneak up his sleeve at some point.

Just found a piece of twig in my hair this morning while shampooing. I think that says it all. What a great day yesterday!
Will get to work on the book asap.

Strings

On Sunday I visited the Southend Open Studios for some major inspiration. I stopped at the studio building at 551 Tremont Street only to get stuck at the first open door, where Roosevelt Pires repairs all kinds of string instruments in a creative mess. Everywhere pieces of ukuleles, guitars, cellos and violins peak out of shelves, boxes, wraps like curious little creatures trying to catch a glimpse of the world.

It is not every day that someone plays the cello for you in the stairways of a an old brownstone. And as long as Agustin played the instrument that Roosevelt had made for him some years ago, I could not bare parting.