App love

I have a new app on my phone that I love--camera+ or something like that. One can do some amazing effects with it and make everyday phone photos a bit better. Here are two I took over the weekend and played with in the app. Love how they look, especially the one of Yaya. She is such a beautiful little girl. So much fun, so stubborn, so amazing. Bean--floors me daily with the things he know, wants to know, who he is becoming.

Couple of me--which are few and far between on this blog. I tweaked these as well in the app

First one is of me in Verberie, France in 1991. I was there doing archaeology on a Upper Palaeolithic site in a small town northeast of Paris. We stayed in an old hotel type place that had these great windows and shutters that really did just that. I often sat in this window after work, writing in my journal--probably pining away after some boy I had just met in England that I was smitten with.

I was all of 21, in love for the first time (or so I thought), first time away from home, out of the country, full of wonder at the world, ready to take on the world and all it had to offer. A lifetime ago. It is one of the few pictures of me I really like. There is a great cherry tree to the left that we would climb up after work and eat cherries off the tree until we were sick.


This is me now:

How much of that 21 year old girl is still there? I wonder daily...................