The weather managed to thwart my friend Lil and my Maine summer beach plans, so instead we explored Fort Popham, a fort that has been on the Kennebeck river since the time of the Civil War. I am modeling my Brooklyn hoodie and king of the mountains Tour de France hat in the fort’s window. Much to Lil’s friend Ben’s disapointment, the fort did not feature any moveable walls or secret passageways.
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Bastille Day Sparklers
A little different from Bastille Day last year where I watched fireworks from the banks of the Seine, this one was spent in Maine, chilling in the backyard of the house I grew up in, where my sister now lives. Here I rediscovered sparklers, which were actually more fun when I was younger, but here is Guillome, a young visitor from France, helping me desk the time delay function on my camera.
Pownal Sunset
Nature in Maine makes photography easy…
Fresh Local Maine Greens
A few weeks ago I went home to Maine to visit my family, including my sister who was home from France. I had just finished reading “Aninal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver and while I was home I read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. The benefits of eating locally and organically were fresh on my mind and this was certainly helped by my Mom’s garden. In Maine it was still cool enough to have fresh lettuce. I also made up a cocktail with fresh mint and lime concentrate- ‘mohito style’ you might call it. But certainly reading both of those books (though I recomend Pollan’s over Kingsolvers) has made me much more aware of where my food comes from even if I can’t just walk out to the garden and pick it myself.
Ladies Weekend!
Here we are, the three ladies, at the garden party, before swimming and a big night out on the town. It’s fantastic to have friends as awesome as Jennifer and Andi. They are people who are creative and committed to making their lives good and being the sweetest friends I could imagine. You can see more of our adventures on my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/killerfemme.
Garden Party
Tina Sparkles hosted an amazing Garden Party in and outside of her cute little house! Tina’s amazing taste in design and decor shows in every corner of her house. She is the proprietress of sparklecraft and makes amazing things like custom guitar straps and accessories. Check out her website at http://www.sparklecraft.com
Swimming at Gus Fruh
Andi and I are such city girls, we couldn’t beleive this river was clean enough to swim in! And that it was natural! And warm! We spent the better half of an afternoon lounging on rocks in the middle of the stream. That’s how to spend a weekend if you ask me!
Frozen Custard Zombie
I don’t think that I need to say much more than that… I thought Jennifer was going to be mad at me for revealing her true nature.
On the air with Ear Candy
One of the coolest things we got to do was be guests on Jennifer’s “indie pop and other strange and wonderful music” radio show on KOOP, Austin’s community radio station. I’ve heard about Ear Candy for years and it was wonderful to be in the KOOP studio and get to help choose what songs to play. It has to be said our set was pretty Brooklyn heavy. We also solicited band names from listeners for the band Andi, Jennifer and I will start when/if Jennifer moves to Brooklyn. You can listen (online or in Austin) to Ear Candy on Saturdays from 5-7, http://www.koop.org.
Austin Eats
Andi and I spent a thoroughly enjoyable ladies weekend with Jennifer. Here we are chowing down on veggie dogs before Andi kicked both of our asses at foosball (she had never played before!).
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