Happy Friday! I am thinking of last summer when we spent many weekends swimming and relaxing on cool, California beaches. This weekend we'll go for a movie, hopefully eat lots of ice cream, take photos, and start a new book. I picked up one of those bestsellers recently...I couldn't help but notice the yellow book cover everywhere and I read it in record time!
ps. I really must post more non-water-related photos but you can't blame me considering the weather right now.
The city is hot hot hot today. We were able to escape some of it by spending our weekend rafting and swimming in the Delaware river (again!). I will be thinking of that swim often now...the water was so perfect.
I would tell you more about our hike last weekend but I am melting here. I need access to a pool, or a beach or a lake...something.
Have you seen the Sundays are for Lovers book yet? The work is delicate, thoughtful, at times funny and always beautiful and the design complements it perfectly. I love all the books from Lines & Shapes and I like how this one's evolved to be more magazine style with a few or more words from each artist. My favorite thing about these books is that I can flip through them over and over and find new things each time I look.
The nighttime photo is from our last weekend in LA. We were walking home after spending another fun evening with our closest friends. It was probably 2 - 3 AM on a strangely foggy night. I love revisiting photos that I took when there was a lot going on in my head and needless to say, that was one of those nights. Like music, photos can sometimes bring up so much nostalgia and transport you to that exact moment. Those CA road trip photos do something similar to me.
Speaking of music, I will always associate The High Road by Broken Bells with the first few months of 2010. Before their album was released and before I even knew much about them, I had added that song to a little mixtape I made for my friends back in January. And it's June now and the album is on frequent repeat around here.
The weekend started on Friday with plenty of walking and eating of delicious foods around the city with Cali friends...so full and fun! The other highlight was seeing Erin again who I last saw back when we were both living in LA. She is so fabulous and inspiring to be around and talk to. I also saw Anna again and met Jessica who are both so sweet and so immensely talented. I was smiling for hours afterwards.
I also watched The Hangover (hilarious!) and topped it up with This is It which is fan-freaking-tastic. The music, the dancing, the energy and words are just MJ...he is his own genre of everything, a true artist.
I have a few new fabric ideas brewing and I am hoping I can get around to finishing some with all this energy from the weekend.
(The photos are actually a mix from last weekend's.)
Most of these photos are from when we spent a hot sticky sunday walking around the city from the upper east side to the japan day in central park, a stroll by the reservoir, a quick stop at the guggenheim (for cool air), then the central park boathouse, whitney museum and got caught in a short burst of rain before making our way home. We have friends visiting from CA this weekend and I am so looking forward to touristing around the city with them. It's gonna be fun.
