mountains and sea (crete) mountains and sea

ancient sap-extracting holes in bark of a tree at the samarian gorge (longest gorge in europe)

walking down the gorge

elafonisi beach sunset
roadside flowers in village of vamos

an otherworldly place to nurse (elafonisi beach the sun has set)

and then 5 more (photos from crete)

at samarian gorge

in clear sea by fragokastello

flowers in ruins in the village we love, gavalachori

playing on the beach

lemon trees and all kinds of light

5 photos i love from crete

goats and purple flowers--we saw on the first evening there as we were walking into the village of gavalachori

papa and finn after finn's first time in the sea

again after finn's first sea-splash. . . .

window to the libyan sea (south side of island) in fragokastello, ruins of a pirate castle

at knossos (ruins of ancient minoan castle) looking in on the Queen's Megaron (with favorite dolphin frescoes)

finn's first time in the sea-----isle of crete, almirida beach

love spots

file under: wonderful gift recently received::::glass whale photographed flashily on my desk file under: a new place created:::::hauled up a creaky card table from basement and now it is a new craft corner

file under: a new place where words go:::::writing/time experiment is over and now i have two new notebooks for to be filled with wordy things

manic makin':::::dinosaur pants & and owl shirt & green/blue dress

file under: celebration clothes of spring:::::appliqued some owls on a t-shirt for finn (thanks wendy for the awesome brown owl); finished the previously-blogged t-shirt pants and now they are called dino pants! (in the corner of this photo you can also glimpse the dress i made for myself)

birthday teepee

file under: thing made for a loved baby turning one:::::::made this blue teepee (with little owl guarding the doorway!) for theo's first birthday-----it was from a pattern by 'maw-bell' that i got from home ec

and here's theo & finn hanging out for a bit in front of teepee (and as seems to be the case with first birthdays, poor theo was having a rough time of it)