baby C is one year old!

saturday we celebrated baby C's first birthday in the middle of a lakewood power outage. no worry - meat smokers and beer coolers don't need no stinking electricity! we feasted like kings. so did the birthday boy, who is pictured below in a full-on-post-cake-frenzy daze. happy birthday, baby C!

favorite photos 12-14

picture #12: "dripping and ragged"

location: venice, ca

year: 2011

description: some things are so easily ignored. broken things. dripping, peeling things. unsightly and unpleasant. static, lifeless, and with such stories to tell.

favorite photo 11

picture #11: "bootsy on the road"

location: west texas

year: 2007

description: this is bootsy (or maybe it's barnabe - i can never remember which one is which). bootsy and barnabe were our pets in paris the first year we were there together (we'd left bob in dallas). they're neck pillows, and we wrote a song about them... actually, it was a theme song to the game show they hosted. this was back when i was watching a lot of french game shows instead of preparing for my qualifying exams. anyway, this is boots on the road trip back to california. bob and barnabe rode in the back.

favorite photo 10

picture #10: "little bob"

place: santa monica

year: 2005

description: "little bob" is not so little these days... and she's getting fussier in her old age (who isn't?), but we love her to bits.

favorite photo 9

picture # 9: "charles de gaulle"

location: paris

year: 2009

description: this is a shot of the wall in the air france terminal at charles de gaulle. i've come to loathe that airport for all the hours i've spent standing in line there... i flew right after the christmas-day shoe bomber fiasco, a major wind storm in paris, and the eruption of eyiafjallajökull in iceland (to say nothing of the time i flew paris-dallas with salmonella!). the place has bad mojo, for sure! but these lines are pretty nice.

favorite photo 7 and 8

picture #s 7 and 8: "for a good time, call..."

location: new orleans

year: 2010

description: these two always make for a good time, and we're happy they're going to be our (relative) neighbors this summer.