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I was going to do "THE END", but the dog was being a spaz and it was harder than I had imagined to pluck all the tiny flowers and arrange them... so, whatev, here it is.

I can't believe I actually made it to 365 pics, can't believe it's been an entire year since I started this. And it's certainly been... a year. I guess this is where I should talk about what an incredible journey it was and how I've really found myself, but... it was just a year. I lost my dad, I lost my dog, I got a tattoo, I got another cat, I learned to embroider, I made some questionable decisions, I made some decent decisions... I think this was helpful for me, a constant, something I needed to do, regardless of what else was going on. And I guess someday it will be cool to look back and have a full year of my life documented.

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I loved the lighting in my front yard this evening

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here's why I rarely wear nailpolish - after a day or so it looks like this... and then I'm usually too lazy to remove the polish correctly, so I just let it wear off for days and days.

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Look at him, rubbing his little hands together like he's plotting something.

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I know they're pests and probably teeming with rabies and fleas, but I can't help it, squirrels are adorable!!!!

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An 80+ degree day at Shell Beach and views for days.

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the first strawberry of the season (in high contrast), not as sweet as the later season ones, but still big and ripe and gorgeous.

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I paint my toenails more often than I paint my fingernails, and I don't paint my toenails much - when I do, though, I prefer a cheap, slutty red, it's kind of an all purpose color.

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a new baby lily emerging from the plant in the backyard

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The Kid, where he is happiest, on the basketball court

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rainy day, drippy pine in the backyard

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 Happy Buddha at the new Chinese restaurant is happy. And Chinese food makes my belly happy.

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Another one of my thrift store finds - it's done by hand in pastel and obviously fairly old (from the style and colors, I'm guessing mid-70s?) - I always feel sad when I see hand done art in thrift stores. To think that someone spent that much time and effort into making a piece and then someone else just discards it like that. The only thing sadder is when I see family pictures there (not to mention, who the hell is going to want your old family pictures?).

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Rainy day and I found this flower on the clearance rack outside of a grocery store (didn't buy it because I am a serial plant killer) but I think these are my favorite kind of flower, with their leaves so folded and packed together, they look almost like fake tissue flowers.

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fun fact: I love thrift stores. And vintage bakeware. Especially vintage bakeware that is under $4.

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Storm clouds rolling down my street in this morning. Oddly enough, after that it cleared up and the weather was gorgeous today. Too bad, I kind of like the rain.

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All those delicate little flowers on the apricot trees have been replaced by hearty green leaves - soon enough those will be joined by fat golden apricots.

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Because of my supercool habit of picking up rocks whenever I'm at the beach, I have five or six jars of rocks around the house - this one is the most recent, it's the rocks from Moonstone Beach, they are the most shiny and soft. Now if only I could figure out something to do with them all...

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I love these lilies, they're so graceful and perfect... if only they were ANYWHERE ELSE but right next to the dirty stuccoed wall...

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Look at those gorgeous little baby potatoes - now they've all been quartered the hell up and tossed into the crock pot with a big old slab of beef - yum.