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.
el Kib
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?
Chris
Gorgeous home. How are you related? As in which side.
michael
Jennifer is my father’s youngest brother’s daughter.
I ain’t got no macro….yet.
jennifer
Adam, 0162 didn’t give you respite from the smiling faces? 😉
adam
Touché …
michael
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.
adam
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 …
Jen
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.
jennifer
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.
anon
Amen, Jennifer.
jennifer
I expressed three very different sentiments (one of which encompassed approximately three more emotions) … was it the middle paragraph which elicited “amen”?
michael
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.
FierceBaby
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.