Take 12 – August

Not all taken on August 12, but thereabouts… (“Take 12” is a project to take 12 pictures of your daily life on the twelfth of each month in 2012).

My desk, with calendars, church directory, thank you notes, a Sunday bulletin, cup from Subway, to do list, and various:

The attendance count sheets we use at church: (next to a couple of my business cards)

A rack of robes for our acolytes – black cassocks and white surplices, in all sizes:

My favorite mailbox, just down the block from our house: (it once got knocked over by a snowplow, but they were able to remount it)

Odo watching me come back from the mailbox (“You’re coming back, right? Right?”)

My favorite part of the garden right now – stonecrop and giant zinnias:

I’d been trying to get a good picture of these white swamp flowers for over a week: (with soccer field lights and subdivision)

More white swamp flowers, early morning, with cattails and townhomes:

A storm drain that empties into above waterway;

We were at my in-laws, near Des Moines, last Friday and Saturday. This is the view from our bedroom window:

My new haircut at the Des Moines farmers’ market:

My in-laws’ house – a 100 year old Sears home with a few additions plus a pool – and my husband’s grandmother and cousin chatting on the patio: (and my knitting bag on steps — oops!)

Adam and family members (his brother, dad, uncle, and mom), re-unioning:

One of my in-laws’ famous sunsets — they live on a hill and the view to the west is amazing. My father-in-law sometimes texts us photos of sunsets he likes and adds, “Wish you were here!” For this one, we were!