Becky's photoblog

Another Passover, another beautiful table set for 20 of our nearest and dearest

Click here for my photoblog entries from

• Passover 2011
• Passover 2010
• Passover 2009
• Passover 2008 1st night and 2nd night

After a lovely brunch, we managed to get everything packed up, sorted out, checked out, packed up in several cars all going in different directions, said our goodbyes again and again, then we hit the Pike and headed west for our mini-moon in the Berkshires.

Becky & Brian’s wedding on Boston’s Harborside from Maureen Cotton Photography on Vimeo.

Becky & Brian celebrate their special day at the Hyatt Harborside with breathtaking views. Photography by taken by Maureen Cotton.  www.maureencottonweddings.com

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Maureen Cotton, a gifted photographer and one of my dearest friends, photographed our wedding and created this wonderful video slideshow that captures the joy of our day so perfectly.

But I couldn’t go a whole day without snapping a few photos, even on my wedding day. I woke up in my suite, saw my dress hanging up and saw a very foggy skyline. Many, many hours later, the fog had long-since cleared and we took a water taxi to the North End for dinner.

When I came home from work today, I opened all of my windows for the first time this season!!

My cousins, Lee and Alex. The Curtis Kids came to visit me the night they arrived from PA to bring Alex back for her second-semester senior year at BU.

I later turned this photo into a painting – http://www.beckydimattia.com/paintings/portraits/nggallery/image/alex-2/

It’s 2014, and I’m going back to the beginning of my first photoblog (at photoblog.com/bdaroff), and recreating my old posts on my own site here at beckydimattia.com/photoblog. This post is from our trip to Ogunquit with my sister, parents and grandparents. My grandparents had a time-share up there, and we drove up to spend the weekend taking in the gorgeous New England colors.

Looking back on this weekend 7 years ago, I still remember this vividly. Brian and I had started dating just one week before this, and I remember talking to him on the phone while looking out over Perkins Cove. A dear friend had also lost her father just a week before this, and I remember debating with my parents whether I should fly to San Francisco for the memorial (I did).

I also remember taking a long slow walk along the Marginal Way, and how my dad, sister and grandmother shook their heads and walked on ahead of us while my mom, grandfather and I stopped every three seconds to take pictures. It was well worth it – one of my photos below has been hanging in my office for many years, reminding me of the gorgeous Maine coast and a great day with my family.

We’re all museum lovers, and we visited two museums that weekend – the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (not that memorable for me, except the gorgeous grounds), and the Portland Museum of Art, which I loved. I especially love the room with all of the marble sculptures and tons of light pouring in from huge windows. A year or so later, Brian and I revisited the Portland Museum of Art together.