Easter Dinner
Most of my cousins live in the midwest (and I don’t mean the mideast like Ohio), so it’s hard to explain why we can only manage a once-a-year visit to the single relative who lives in this area. But that’s the way it is – it’s always Easter with Vic and Jennifer.
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin … ! Ooh la la! Nice spread! Looks like a great party!
And amidst all the happy smiling faces, thanks for 0196, an image after my own heart. Nice use of DOF in the intro image, too. That just a crop, or some form of actual macro?
Comment by el Kib — April 9, 2007 @ 8:51 am
Gorgeous home. How are you related? As in which side.
Comment by Chris — April 9, 2007 @ 9:41 am
Jennifer is my father’s youngest brother’s daughter.
I ain’t got no macro….yet.
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 9:52 am
Adam, 0162 didn’t give you respite from the smiling faces? 😉
Comment by jennifer — April 9, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
Touché …
Comment by adam — April 9, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
Are you two making fun of me?
I called Adam to find out what kind of chairs he and Tricia owned, and if they’d cure Diane’s back problems, and he – a little out of nowwhere – called me a picturevomiter. I reacted defensively thinking he meant what Travis used to torture me with, that content equals words and not photos, so I said I need help and I’m not getting it.
But what he really meant was why post thirty-seven photos when only four or five are worthwhile. As if the blog were a fought over room at the MFA.
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 9:16 pm
The latter IS closer to the impetus, but I also didn’t realize you had dozens more per event and actually WERE being (somewhat) selective … Not that I judge any here to be unworthy of posting — content, like beauty, is mostly in the eye of the beholder — but I did imagine some redundancy. Thanks to Jennifer, though, for pointing out one of the funnier (and arguably better-composed) images from the set, one I’d effectively missed completely. Forest for the trees, I’d argue. There’s a witty observation in there about ears, but it’s too early …
Comment by adam — April 10, 2007 @ 6:58 am
I love the “action” shots. The pictures are crisp and blurred just where they need to be. Very cool. I’m going to assume that is on purpose. I know nothing about the hows of taking fancy snaps, but I knows what I likes.
Comment by Jen — April 10, 2007 @ 10:40 am
I wasn’t making fun of you. Just keeping the conversation going.
As to the fought-over room at the MFA … one of the things I like about the blog is that sometimes incredible art-photos are posted, other times deeply personal events are photographed or written about (or both) and posted, other times it’s chit-chat — again, visual and/or language-based.
And I haven’t had much to say lately because I’ve been struggling with my feelings about other people’s museum-quality homes.
Comment by jennifer — April 10, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Amen, Jennifer.
Comment by anon — April 10, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
I expressed three very different sentiments (one of which encompassed approximately three more emotions) … was it the middle paragraph which elicited “amen”?
Comment by jennifer — April 10, 2007 @ 11:05 pm
That was my comment on Diane’s computer, and it was both in appreciation of your first paragraph, and some acknowledgement of how does one keep up with those well-manicured houses? I wish I had current camera access to FierceBaby’s home.
Comment by michael — April 11, 2007 @ 8:02 am
Torroemore, with the exception of the den, the workroom, and one little corner of the great room, looks pretty much the way it did when last you saw it. It feels a lot different though.
Comment by FierceBaby — April 11, 2007 @ 9:51 am