Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in pictures

December 28, 2012
I love this challenge!! I really enjoyed looking at all of the photos I produced this past year and it was hard to pick just one for each month. I also realized that I need to get out there again with my Yashica Mat. Damn. I love that camera. lots. 2012 was the year that I really embraced film photography. I really wanted to learn how to develop my own film but never got around to it. I plan to, for sure, in 2013. I can’t wait!

I have much more to say about 2012 but I will do it in another post. I will let the photos do the talking in this one. (click on the thumbnail for bigger)

I dig out my old film camera and shoot a roll of very expired film in Portland.

I took a hike with my new Holga. I have fallen in love with medium format photography.

Holga + Polaroid back = fun times.

Spokane Flickr group Reunion Tour! Another Holga shot on a Spokane street corner.

I bought a Yashica Mat and instantly fall in love.

I visit a foggy Larch Mountain with my new camera.

Mt Hood from LoLo Pass Road. Yashica Mat (of course).

My little brother gets married. (Yashica Mat + Tri x = weak in the knees)

PARIS!! This is an iPhone snap. I DO have film from this trip that needs to be developed.

I caught Seattle’s Public Market after they closed. Bummer. (iPhone photo)

An absolutely stunning evening at Trillium lake. (iPhone photo)

We spent Christmas at the beach and I had fun with Hipstamatic.
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What I was doing at noon on Christmas

December 27, 2012
This was the daily prompt for Christmas on the Daily Post.

At noon today, take a pause in what you’re doing or thinking about. Make a note of it, and write a post about it later.

Raf and I were Driving home from Long Beach, WA. We were exactly at the interchange on I-5 and I-205. I was specifically thinking about the Historic Columbia River Highway. We were listening to a song that reminded me of Santa Cruz. I didn’t write down the name of the song and now it completely eludes me. It was a terribly rainy and cold day and visibility was awful. I was really looking forward to getting home. I was also very happy, having just had a really fun couple of days with my favorite person.

I also snapped a photo of this exact moment in the car.
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Wayback Wednesday

December 26, 2012
via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/dCnYHN

This santa has much kinder eyes.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

December 25, 2012
hideous Christmas gif

This holiday season I am sending loving kindness to everyone who reads this blog. Thank you so very much for reading and visiting my little corner of the intertubes. I am grateful for every single one of you.

May you be happy.
May you be well.
May you be safe.
May you live with ease.
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The worst Christmas song ever written

December 24, 2012
Just awful.

A couple of years ago the Mr. and I were having a discussion about Christmas songs and we observed that there are some truly awful ones. For example, Jingle Bells. It’s all fine and dandy for the first few stanzas but eventually it takes a turn for the awful:
A day or two ago
I thought I’d take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
We got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.
```
A day or two ago,
  The story I must tell
  I went out on the snow,
  And on my back I fell;
  A gent was riding by
  In a one-horse open sleigh,
  He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
  But quickly drove away.
```
See? Awful!!

Anyway, we wondered what the worst Christmas song ever written was. We searched the intertubes and turned up a lovely little ditty about a bratty little girl wanting a hippopotamus for Christmas. Everything about it is terrible.
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