Category: Self Portrait Tuesday

I’ve been forgetting Self Portrait Challenge, but it’s another good excuse to keep taking pictures. Theme of the month: BLUE. I’m cheating here because I think this is more of a blue green. Which I like more anyway. So there. Damon took this picture of me through the scope on my brother-in-law’s paintball rifle. No, silly, he’s not pointing the gun at me! My kids had already disassembled the viewfinder from the gun. I was not harmed while taking this picture.

Damon looks pretty cute, but I can’t use his picture because that wouldn’t be a self portrait. Besides, I’m prettier.

But he’s bluer.And you can find more Blue People at SPC.

It’s going to be a fun month of portraits at SPC, with the topic of FOOD to nibble on. I was browsing old photos tonight and found this one, taken months ago at the MOMA in San Francisco. It captures the essence of meal time in our family, which is to say that it captures For eating, Chas wiggling, and my gazing at the bones of the pizza that Ford probably won’t finish.

I’ve done this since the days of pureed sweet potatoes: do you eat what your kids leave behind?

A quick moment in the bedroom to stand in the afternoon sun. The kids have broken both tripods. You wouldn’t know it, because you can’t see it behind me, that there is a toddler jumping on the bed and about to whack his noggin on the headboard, or that there is a terrier beneath this frame looking up at me, barking about a filthy, soggy tennis ball at my feet. Or that the only pattern I feel this week is really he lack thereof in each day, as we stumble awkwardly towards fall: meeting teachers, new shoes, dental appointments, last-minute camping, knots in stomach and lumps in throat.

More patterns at SPC.