Daily Snapshots

June 21st, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

I really love taking photographs and looking at photographs by other people. More than words, photos give you the chance to actually look at the world from someone else’s perspective, and cameras give you a chance to look at your regular life through a different lens. I have a fancy Nikon D90, but my most trusty camera is my iPhone. Not because it takes better pictures, but because I always have it with me. Lately I’ve found myself photographing the gorgeous apricot colored roses dangling over the sidewalk just down the block,  the alliums growing in abandoned lot nearby, and my sneaky chicken, Inky, whom I found looking for worms in an off limits area of the yard.

I just started sharing my photos on Instagram, a wonderful Twitter-like app for the iPhone. Instagram lets you easily share photos with friends and view photos of people from all over the world. It is really a lot of fun. I try and share at least one photo every day. If you’d like to get a little peek into my world, you can follow along on instagram. My handle is willigalloway. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can still see my daily photo feed on Twitter, where I also post my pictures.

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week…

This gorgeous rose is growing in a little strip of soil between the sidewalk and the street. The bush is nearly 8 feet tall and the roses cascade in an arch over the walkway. I snapped this picture in the late evening while I was on a walk with our dog, Domino.

My mom just got an iPhone and she texted me a picture of some flowers in her garden in Wyoming. It was a fun message to receive, and such a pretty picture that I decided to share it on Instagram.

We have a pink and yellow theme going on in the yard this summer. I got these super cool solar lanterns at IKEA for $14.99 a piece. During the day they soak up the rays (well, the weak light that makes its way through the clouds) and then they cast a rosy glow over the lawn and hammock in the evening when the sun goes down. I love looking out the window at night and seeing them bobbing in the breeze.

My English peas are setting pods right now (it’s about time!) and I cannot wait until they are ready and I can make my all-time favorite summer meal: pasta with garlic scape pesto!

I decided to spruce up our rusty bistro set with a little spray paint and chose “school bus yellow” as the color. Even though I have limited DIY skills, I was super pleased how the chairs and table turned out!

Domino and I like to explore the neighborhood and we spotted these alliums growing in an abandoned lot not far from our house. Whenever I see a garden in disarray I always wonder who loved that little spot of earth before and where they are now.

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