seeing double

This past Labor Day we discovered that the West Indian-American Parade and Carnival goes right in front of our house.  Despite the bad rap it gets due to the seemingly unavoidable outbursts of violence, and in that way not being unique to many crowded events all over the city on a holiday weekend, it definitely provided us with a unique people watching opportunity and chance to enjoy the spirit of our neighborhood.  I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked.....I've had to trade in some of my camera cradling for baby cradling....but I did manage to get this picture of two little girls who stopped to get a better view of the festivities from the neighbor's stoop.  Nothing like a baby to make you realize that sometimes one picture is enough....

obsessed with The Glow

Beautiful pictures of mamas and their babies.....love love love.  This is what I would like to do all day for the rest of my life....take beautiful pictures of mamas and their babies.  For now I spend all day staring at my beautiful baby....when the staring gets old I'll take more pictures.
All pictures courtesy of The Glow.

beginnings

When you're pregnant you look at life in terms of weeks and then months and then you begin counting down the days. In labor you look at the hours which then become minutes. As soon as your baby is born you look at every single second. Then you start to look at the hours and then the days and then the weeks and then the months. Eventually you look at the years. Through all of this you realize that time goes by very quickly and at some point you just have to stop looking at all the minutes, months and years of time gone by and all the minutes, months and years yet to come and stop to look at now. Now, I'm a mama and as I cherish every second of being in love with my amazing daughter and having the one thing in the world I wanted the most I realize there are no more excuses to let time go by not doing what I want to do the most.....so as I welcome baby Eliza into my life I also welcome my commitment to my creative practice back into my life. This blog is a visual reminder of all the ideas, people, images and projects that inspire me and feed that practice. It's so good to be back.