molly irwin

toot, toot, toot *

It's pretty nice to have one of my photos recognized as the daily click at Shutter Sisters.  That is one collective inspiring bunch of women, so thank you very much ladies.

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* my own horn

10 little things

that make me happy, right now:

1) title track from Hang on Little Tomato, (or most any good clarinet solo.)

2) cappuccino milkshake from Mark's Kitchen

3) The new fall Boden catalog arrived!

4) Chipotle's vegitarian fajita burrito bowl

5) patchwork notebooks from JCasa

6) Twighlight turtle with my kids on the closet floor

7) This Jamie Waters page

8) 101 cookbooks

9) dinner made fresh from the farmer's market

10) Paul & Matt launching on YouTube

what is making you smile today?

20 things right now

Don't have time to do a LO for this challenge, but it's fun just to make note of those little things that I particularly appreciate in my life right now. 

1.  Archer Farms salsa verde + blue chips

2. sound of a bicycle bell

3. tofutti cuties

4. small canvases

5. John Mayer - Continuum

6. salad bar @ whole foods

7. badmitton in the yard

8. AM sunshine in my bedroom window

9. red and purple flowers

10. brown craft paper

11. boxes of my old books

12. exploring flickr

13. pre-nap snuggling

14. the soft-haired, blue-eyed ones

15. cheap decaf from costco

16. the work of Quentin Blake

17. Nikon N65

18. $1.99 breakfast @ ikea

19. birds & bird imagery

20. summer visits: family, friends, fair, baseball, pool

Interesting how so many of them have to do with food ... hmmm. 

I promise this is true: I'm not sure what compelled me to include the bird imagery item, they're just so pretty and sweet and there are newborn birds all around right now.  But, just before I had the chance to post my list, I found a baby Mourning Dove in the house.  It had somehow found it's way in the chimney and we all trapsed up three flights to assist it out the window.  It was so tiny and scared.  Poor thing.  Got some pics, but I am 35mm so will have to publish that another day.  See how something poetic can happen when you write down your thoughts and intentions!

Happy weekend.

edited for correction:  it wasn't a Dove, now I'm checking the field guide and the web to find what kind of tiny all gray birdie that was.