Becky's photoblog

Finished-ish

San Francesco in Assisi, a magnificent cathedral with gorgeous Giotto frescos.

Another puzzle that looks lovely in the gorgeous light that pours through our front window every morning.

It’s snowing sideways and I have a lonely blank canvas in my studio. Remind me again why I’m leaving my apartment today?

On the day after our awesome new couch is delivered, the Blizzard of 2013 arrived and we’re ‘stuck’ at home for a three day weekend. No complaints here! We are perfectly happy to hang out at home. This is a photo of Brian on the new couch reading a book I recommended, and I’m making bagel pizzas.

My perfect little studio, with perfect late-afternoon fall light, and the perfect fall flowers B gave me the other night 🙂

Hurricane Irene turned out to be relatively unexciting for us, except for a big tree down behind the house. Our apt stands next to a big hill about the same height as our building, and a tree near the top of the hill was totally uprootd. The tree had the courtesy to fall neatly alongside the back of the house rather than directly on to the house – a difference of a few degrees. 

This is the root of the tree that fell. This is near the top of the hill, so this is about the same height as our roof. 

The view behind the house from the back patio – this is the top of the tree, right against the side of the house. 

My kitchen window

My living room window – the root of the tree is out of the shot, further up on the right. 

This is NOT near my house, and this is NOT our car. B took a walk to check out the neighborhood, and this is down the street from us. 

In honor of my birthday, we did what we do best – we ordered pizza, we made alcoholic smoothies, and we hung out on the porch.

We were 10 for the first seder last night at my parents’ house. I still feel full from all the amazing food mom made. (the fourth photo is from last year, when we had 22)

 

Too sore to go to work, but not sore enough to keep me from painting all day!

My back yard

People schmoozing in my kitchen. I made enough lasagna and stuffed shells to serve 24 people (we had leftovers)

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/

Melissa, Gwen, Liz, Other Becky and Brian, in my kitchen, indulging on Halloween