Lazy Bones

There are a couple dozen items on our holiday weekend to-do list, and today we accomplished approximately none of them. Instead, we teamed up on creating plausible excuses for ourselves: still tired from yesterday…still two days left before Monday…we don’t really have to do x, y, or z…we did get all of our pre-planning done,… Continue reading Lazy Bones

Giving Thanks

Longtime readers know how difficult Thanksgiving has been for us, over the past few years. Holden always works on the Saturday after, and sometimes on Sunday, too, and so he hasn’t been able to join me at my parents’ house for the holiday weekend. This year, however, I stayed in town and accompanied Holden to… Continue reading Giving Thanks

Some Room (With a View)

I am in love with the camera angle and the tripod height that Holden chose for this photo. This would be the perspective of another person, or another couple, for whom we left room on the bed so they could watch us. Can’t you almost feel the cool white sheets beneath your bare skin? For… Continue reading Some Room (With a View)

Special Effects

Maybe our perceptions were a little impaired by the specialty cocktails we enjoyed with dinner — just maybe — but the wallpaper in the suite’s bedroom had quite a dreamy quality to it. Had we known, we would have brought a lava lamp or a black light with us for the evening!