the first quarter

I can't help but do another year in review after seeing Natalie's & looking at mine from last year.

I really enjoy creating these blogs in the last few days of the year because it really gives me the opportunity to reminisce on all the beautiful things that have occurred in a merely years time.

January

Started off the year lying around with my love and continued this trend unexpectedly as it snowed a bit more than usual, allowing my roommates and I to get out of school for days at a time. Our house was our safe haven. It always has been.

February

Celebrated Meg's 22nd birthday Birdhouse style and sought out any glimpse of sunlight possible after the dreary cold.

March

I smiled as the spring time sun began filling my room each morning and spent many days taking in the change of season by letting the warmth encompass me.

in the morning at the birdhouse

I've always been content with mornings. I could happily sleep in, but there is something magical about the morning light filtering into a bedroom.

At the Birdhouse, I luckily had a window that faced East(it is so odd using the past tense, but it's true. As of tonight, I no longer reside at the Birdhouse.)

I loved my mornings waking up there.

They looked somewhat like this:

self-rendering

I realize I haven't been as consistent with my blog as I have been in the past lately.

So, here's an update of what i am doing this very moment:

working on a self-portrait

Of course, Lili always jumps up on the table to see what's going on & love on me, before she's off on her fly-chasing, cat-food muching, day napping ways again...

& after looking through some old photobooth photos, I had to post this adorable-ness.

in the AM

oh, golden morning light. how i wallow in you.

equinox

On this first day of Autumn, I thought I'd celebrate some of the beauty Summer brought into my life: