Chair #11

[zyzyly]

After a couple of months of not doing much of anything but studying, I took Malida to Mendocino for her birthday. It was a lovely, relaxing weekend, with almost perfect weather. We stayed at our favorite place, Alegria, which was originally recommended to us by judywatt. I finished and submitted my final project for my master's degree last Wednesday, so I had no homework or anything I had to read. I brought a book--the new Margaret Atwood. It was so nice just to sit out on the deck and read something for fun. I still have one class to take, but it's a downhill slide.

I hadn't taken a chair picture in quite a while. I put the chair in the back of the car, just in case. Malida complained about it until we stopped along the road so she could eat her papaya salad. When I suggested she could sit in it and look out over the ocean as she ate, her outlook changed.



I photographed the chair in the middle of highway 1. Surprisingly, not much traffic that day. I sent it to the person I have been taking these chair pictures for, and asked if she could guess where I took it. She wrote back and pointed out the view and the grass, and said, "near Sea Ranch, maybe?"

Yes! Less than two miles from Sea Ranch. Amazing!

I haven't really done anything with the pictures I took over the weekend. It has become so easy to just take an iPhone pic and post it to Facebook. I have gotten lazy. My plan is to get back into real photography after my school is done in December. The funding for my job runs out at the end of the year, so I might have plenty of time. In any case, I'm taking most of January off to recover from what has been a very stressful six months or so. I think we are going to go to Germany to hang out with Malida's cousin.


Sunset at Pudding Creek. One of our mandatory stops.

Comments

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I've missed you, my friend. That is a lovely chair photo :) I love being able to pick out random scenic locations in photos.

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

I smiled when I scrolled into my friend's page and saw the chair. :-) Welcome back!

It seems like just months ago you started the masters program. Congratulations on what you've accomplished, and may that last class be a breeze.

As for that sunset. Wow.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Yay return of chair pics!

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to see you back!

[howeird]

Nice to see you back here for a bit of chair & scenery. I have never understood Somtham, prefer the inside of fruit to the outside. :-)

[cobaltika.livejournal.com]

i love it when you show up here.
and with pictures!!

i love Highway 1 up the coast.
someday ...

[annie-r.livejournal.com]

So glad to see you here! Almost done with the master's, wow, congrats.

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[crookedfingers.livejournal.com]

glad all is well-wonder how you have been-must be a good feeling finishing your Master's program

[isis-lives.livejournal.com]

Great pics. I especially like the one with Malida sitting in the chair. Love your posts.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Is the whole program shutting down? I'm sorry to hear that (either if the program is shutting down, or it's just your job!).

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, yeah, I missed that part of the post :-(

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The chair in the middle of the highway makes me nervous (even if it was a low-traffic day), but as a seat in which to eat papaya salad--perfect!

Congratulations on completing the master's course.

... I would love to be friends on Facebook, but I am not sure how to find you there. (And, if you keep it limited to people you know IRL, that's fine too; I used to do that myself.) You can find me as Francesca Forrest if you're inclined.

It's not that I post more there (I post there rarely), or that I suspect you post more there. I just like to hold on to people.

[w. lotus (from livejournal.com)]

I was thinking about you two the other day when I got an LJ reminder of Malida's birthday. Congrats on being almost done with school!

[djaza.livejournal.com]

hello, hello, hello - what a treat to see your photo. I knew who posted immediately.
Glad to hear you are going to have a nice break in Jan.
Maybe we can schedule an outing?