2013

Despite all my self-conscious griping about photography: 

2013 through (mostly) my camera lens, (almost) all in chronological order.

Apparently it was about people and different places.

And food. 

Though actually, the three all just different aspects of one, whole experience. 

setting a-sail. via plane. ahoy, France!

late-night tea and ketchup time with Diego and the host brother in franglish

Valenbici, Valencia

"majestic" comes to mind

te amo

soulful-sad coffee date with soulful-sad french girl who opened up to me about her soulful-sad things like it was no big deal

22nd birthday apple piecake in Lyon

Cristian in Granada. Those olives were somehow so delicious.

crazy-laughing with fellow Morocco-adventure-rs

bubble tea

amie de voyage

"the Eiffel Tower is magical because..."

rebel in London

a year of so many photobombs

but also of so many lovely photo'ed memories

"you have to look through the leetle viewfinder"

live, laugh, love,
and wink unabashedly

baguette-under-arm: check

two dreamers in Perouges

brunch fiends

La Grande Mosquée de Lyon

we can't help it. behind-the-scenes at a tapas bar in Montpellier

wine by the liter 2 euros, chit-chat about life and love, totally free

celebrating open hearts, open doors, being scared to death of things that turn out to be nothing, etc.
Montpellier

sunshine in Marseille

beer on a cafe terrace: we talked of movies I didn't know.

such unfiltered love for those leaves
Aix-en-Provence: "tu m'inspires"

fearless jaywalkers
Aix

"Comment savoir si c'est l'art ou pas?"
Nice, France

refuge from...homelessness.
It sounds like I'm dramatizing it,
and I am. hahaha
Nice, France

Strasbourg, France

Zuhause in Deutschland

unexpected friendships abound
Tuebingen, Germany

Lake Bodensee

bye bye sadness
Tuebingen

I am the master of picnic lunches.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

the most colorful, the most tragic

high spirits, whiskey appreciation
Edinburgh, Scotland

what was it about this trip that made us sit up all night and talk about things that made us
cry, laugh, question our existence?! 

hurrying amidst a sunrise
Edinburgh

so beautiful, but so lonely
Howth, Ireland

May sunshine in Virginian fields
madlee & isamee

"내가 명동은 좀 잘 알지 훗"
Seoul, Korea

reunion: family & country & feeling

미녀들의 수다, 3 generations in one picture
there are few things more beautiful than the wrinkled skin of my grandma.
Haenam, Korea

you are one of the best people I know.
frolicking in Busan, Korea

 

my "what is friendship?" friend
Myeongdong, our favorite touristy place in Seoul

reunion, our style. there was laundry and tooth-brushing.
Seoul, Korea

this will seem random but it is not: I need a husband who is good at not missing buses, trains, planes.
Korea

"Thank you." 

home sweet van
Charlottesville

Home is where the Binky is.
Charlottesville, US

mommy and me
Carter's mountain, Charlottesville!

diversity fdf
So thankful for yawl.
"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." -Proverbs 27:17 

ganstagrass!
The Jefferson, Charlottesville

bathed in fall sunshine
Carter's Mountain again

farmers' market Saturday

an unlikely trio
which is probably the best kind of trio.
At the Colonnade Club, UVA

it was a chaotically spectacular kind of night
when we felt like high schooler astrologists

Thanksgiving for Lobster.
I mean lobster for thanksgiving.
I mean,, what?

our room was the object of everyone's secret envy on that night at Clemons 3rd floor
exam season in style, so fourth year

her resolutions were on a hotel note pad and mine on an irregular-size yellow paper, but our goals incorporated numbers and things, and that's all that really mattered.

chin chin!