A Step at a Time, Once a Day: May 2011

29 May

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Sitting by our gardens today putting in my daily fifteen minutes of photography practice, I experimented with tone, custom white balance, and depth of field with my 18-55mm kit lens.

28 May

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Spent half the day at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas photographing with Alia. What a beautiful place!

27 May

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Photo by Alia via her iPod Touch & the Hipstamatic app

Walked 6 miles in 1:43 hours this morning with Alia at my side! It was awesome!

26 May

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Farmer PapaBear watering the vegetable garden this morning.

25 May

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Like Christmas in May! Love my new reusable Peet's cup from Alia!

22 May

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The first of the morning glory plants bloomed today. Isn't it just magnificent?
(P.S. Photograph taken by Dakota)

21 May

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Spent the morning with Alia shooting at Mission Trails. It's such a nice park with so many trails to explore. Finished are Mami' & Me day with lunch at Crazee Burger (Alia's treat!!!).

20 May

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Taught Dakota how to plant the sunflower seedlings in his own garden boxes which are going to be his responsibility. There are 20 sunflowers that will hopefully grow to be beautiful flowers.

19 May

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Putting in new supports for our tomatoes.

17 May

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Learned two new words today - pectus carinatum. Not too sure how I feel about them yet, but grateful it wasn't the other "c" word.

16 May

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Isn't this flower gorgeous?!?! It's one of the first to bloom in my flower garden.

15 May

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We started our gardens by clearing the areas of weeds and planting seedlings back in early March. Today, we finished my butterfly/flower garden!!!

14 May

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Saturday morning breakfast with Dakota at Cully's followed by a trip to the farmer's market for some free range brown eggs, goat cheddar cheese, strawberries and cauliflower.

13 May

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An afternoon in the Desert Garden at Balboa Park - Alia in front of one of the trees with a split trunk.

12 May

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At 5 1/2 years old, he still plays as if he were a puppy.

11 May

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Never knew how beautiful is a pea plant with it's white flowers, green leaves and delicate tendrils.

10 May

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Absolutely gorgeous day in South Park. Having had a lunch date at Grant's Marketplace, PapaBear and I headed home with our leftovers and some Dogfish beer.

9 May

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"The artist is a receptacle for the motions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." ~ Pablo Picasso

7 May

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The first of the pumpkin flowers!

6 May

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My beautiful Mother's Day bouquets!

PapaBear built the last of my garden beds for my flower garden today. The two in the background have my bulb flowers and the small one in the foreground has those we started from seed. The large garden bed will have all the flowers that attract butterflies.