So a lot has changed since that last post. Dan still isn’t wild about veggies, but he is a bit more open after some health issues. The biggest change though is the move to LA for Dan’s new job. This is the second time that we have uprooted for a new opportunity. 14 years ago we came to California from NYC. This time it’s been less traumatic for me, since I was already freelance, and with the advent of social media—twitter, facebook, and hell, blogs—I don’t feel as far away from my friends.

Since the move at the end of December, I have been working on getting the house to feel like it’s a home. And I have been nesting like crazy! There are still some areas of the house/garage that need refining—The kitchen isn’t as organized as I would like, and there are a ton of built ins that might be better utilized. But everything has a place right now, and the house is clean!

The garage has come along way, recently. Eventually, I will have my photo studio set up in there, so I am ready to shoot at any time. When we first moved in, I wasn’t quite sure that would happen. It’s quite a bit smaller than our last garage—but it’s the only place we saw that had one—so plus. We still had a bunch of boxes, a clothes rack and our old kitchen chairs on “my side” of the garage. I did a bit of purging, and installed a wall mounted coat rack for the closet spillovers, and now I can see the strobe light—so to speak. There is still a stack of boxes containing guitar magazines that need to be scanned, but that is a slow process. Dan agreed to release his guitar magazine collection, after I scan all of the music tab and the special articles. I am thrilled cause this will be so much less stuff we need to cart around. I have gotten a lot more sensitive to clutter, and I am really trying to let stuff go—and not bring stuff in to start with.

With this fresh start in a new city, I want to really focus on getting stronger—both in my physical body and in my work/art skills. I want to start taking photos everyday, and really feeling confident and comfortable. I haven’t spend enough time taking photos that “don’t matter”, so that when I was taking can’t miss images, I would be nervous and end up not getting the shot. I realizing that the only way to become the photographer that I want is to take lots and lots of photos. So I am challenging myself to post a new image everyday. So here is the first one, which goes along with a post about moving into a new home and nesting. This was taken after a rare, so they tell me, rain storm in LA. I loved the light and the look of the sky.

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