Traveling to The DNC and my 400th post!

Recently I spent a week away from home. It was combination work and pleasure. I was covering the DNC but my best friend lives in Charlotte so I stayed with her and had a ball being roommates again after 20 years.

It's always exciting to cover news stories that are also televised. It makes my reporting easier because of the visual the reader gets from tv in advance of my report.

Here's a link to the website for my newspaper and here's a few pics that didn't make the official report.

The Motivation Behind My Scrapbooking Journey

Confession: Scrap booking is intimidating to me.  I am not really naturally creative.  Following directions...that's me! So putting pictures together with words and ribbons and bows and....I'm getting tired thinking about it.

But I had some things I felt compelled to do through scrap booking.  I really want to put together the pictures when I visit my in-laws each year, because we don't get to see them as often as we'd like. I believe that my mother in law will appreciate the pictures this way, she'd look at them often.

Also, I feel the need to document what we're doing in our family. We are the first to ever, or at least in a long time, to attempt home schooling, gardening, Islam and working a business as a family; what I call a deeply conscious life. Having reason to do or not do everything. Nothing is done without thought.

I guess scrap booking will be like this blog for me. I'm doing it for myself, but others can see it and enjoy it if they like.

It feels necessary.

My wintery neighborhood...

I thought I took this one crooked but this lot is sitting on a hill so it slopes to the left of this shot.

The creek behind my house is running like a river with all of the melting snow and ice.

The sidewalk and street are barely visible anymore. If you click on this you can see how beautiful even the dead blooms are on this tree. An African brother lives here and keeps the most beautiful yard that has something blooming year round.