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presidio, legion of honor, and clement street crepes

allana March 23rd, 2008

Luis (also a photographer) and his lovely girlfriend Amy invited to me join them this afternoon to see the AL exhibit at the Legion of Honor. Both the exhibit and the museum were amazing, and hugely packed for Easter Sunday. It was my first trip to the museum, and I am so happy to have such an amazing place a short bus ride away from our new home. After the museum, we took Amy’s convertible to Clement Street where we dined at Burma Superstar (amazing!), and finished off the day with crepes and a stroll through a few shops on Clement Street.

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portrait of Amy in Museum

eating crepes on Clement Street

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san francisco fish shop

shooting with Juliet Nicole

allana March 8th, 2008

One of the new friends in my life, bay area photographer Juliet Nicole , invited me to join her for a day after shoot here in San Francisco. Her clients were just as wonderful and full of delight as she is. We had an amazing afternoon traipsing around the city, shooting until there was no longer any sunlight and we finished off the day with a delicious Japanese dinner.

Here are a few of my personal favorites from Saturday:

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trash the dress in san francisco

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the great san francisco pillow fight

allana February 14th, 2008

Ahhh, the joys of living in such a city as this. Trent and I began our Valentine’s Day evening at The Great San Francisco Pillow Fight. Happy Valentine’s Day!


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tag. I am it. here goes.

allana January 15th, 2008

I was been blog-tagged (blagged?) by Melissa Schwartz of Organic Photographs ages ago. I’ve been dreadfully negligent about getting to this post. It’s been hanging around in my wordpress drafts like a albatross made of html links. Likely, as I don’t read that many blogs. Ooh, it that a terrible, horrible, no good very bad thing to admit?

So here goes. 8 things you might not know about me:

1. If a movie involves fantasy, space travel or time travel; sign me up. Which means that yes, Virginia, I am a BSG fan.

2. I am an owner of Donna Barr’s Desert Peach graphic novel collection.

3. I studied Latin (yes, the dead language) for 6 (yes, six) years.

4. I’ll pretty much eat flan at any opportunity.

5. I love shopping at
Comerical
in Mexico. It is far, far better than Vons or Ralphs.

6. I drink a lot of Sadaf, Special Blend Tea, with cardamom flavor. Sometimes I brew it in milk. Sometimes I don’t. I’m fickle like that.

7. I started a morning running routine about the same time Trent started getting into baking cakes. This is not a coincidence.

8. My dog makes me very, very happy.

a.
Diana Bonfilio
This spot is good for tracking how a beantown girl adapts linguistically and otherwise to life in Ireland.

b.
Lauren Clark

c.
Cedar Pruitt
This is the thinker’s blog. Cedar was one of my roommates in college.

d.
The Joke is Up
Musings of Jon Jandoc , future groom to kick-ass bronwyn beck

e.
Chris Murray
The lovely musician behind the song California Times on my site

f.
Sweet Juniper
Journal that is well written, a bit crass- a delightfully snarky combination!

g. Fabuluxe Events v. cool blog on planning events.

h.
David Scherer
David was my pre-school playmate, and is now a PhD in optics, being sought after by labs all over the country. Yikes.

thanksgiving

allana November 22nd, 2007

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Trent and I had a fantastic Thanksgiving on the Cape with my family. We ate well, drank well, and laughed well. We spent a few cold hours watching a ridiculously enormous tv. Trent and my dad sang along to Legally Blonde the Musical; my mother heckled the girl on Made; and we watched Bret Michaels make television history. Lest you are appalled by the amount of untraditional revelry, we did go to Plymouth Rock, and had a good laugh with the costumed actors heading toward the Mayflower II.

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which city?, witch city

allana October 28th, 2007

Kristen pointed out that we were nearing Salem; and it was the Sunday before Halloween. Hmmm . . after bungling it by following the signs to Salem, New Hampshire (uh . . at one point I did live in New England, but clearly California has pushed certain geographic information out of my brain), we did make it to Witch City. There was madness afoot everywhere. Take a peek.

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Happy Halloween!

vermontaineering

allana October 28th, 2007

On our way back to Boston, we took a day to take pictures for fun.

classic vermont cow in pasture:
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Kristen had never had cider donuts, hence the need to stop by Cold Hollow Cider Press for a snack.
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the one truly brilliant tree:
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picturesque Vermont scene:
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Connecticut River in New Hampshire:
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Closed ice cream shop in White River Junction:
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i love october

allana October 22nd, 2007

Last night we watched the Sox take game 7. It was a wicked awesome night. Trent asked me during the top of the ninth, why Ortiz was wearing goggles. He’s new to this Red Sox Nation, but has embraced it thoroughly; even getting us a new hd flatscreen on which we will watch the Sox take the world series. Sorry Colorado. My heart’s with Boston.

* wicked was used purposefully to evoke various southie and dot grins

sadie update

allana September 15th, 2007

Our little Sadie is 1 year old now. At least another year to go of puppyhood.

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incognito in cambridge with greenward’s scott & simone

allana September 3rd, 2007

I had lunch at Porter Exchange today with Scott Walker and Simone Alpen of Greenward.

I will be shooting their wedding this October in Stowe, Vermont. I’ve been told it might involve a performance by pygmy goats; but I am not certain they were serious.

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