Chrissy's Photo A Day

First day of spring. My pretty tree out front is blooming. I love that tree. Dan wants to cut it down, but the nice landscape guy said we ...

Yeah! A clean, freshly painted and organized kitchen pantry! At least something is under my control. It rained on my shelves outside, but I ...

OK, so my dissertation is really getting to me again. This time I tackled the kitchen pantry. It's disgusting. I took out all the food a...

All the kids were over tonight- what a treat! Also, the closet is all filled up with coats again.

Today I was really bugged about my dissertation and got really sad. I haven't been sleeping well and have been really anxious. I had a b...

Here are photos of the closet after I painted it with the same paint from Dan's office. Sunny closet!

Here is a photo of a contrail over my neighbor's house.

And here is an after picture. Nice sunny color. See this link here for a picture from last year.

I'm getting really bogged down with my dissertation so this afternoon I decided to paint the hall closet. Here are the before pictures.

Aza and I painted Dan's office over spring break. Here is a before picture.

I'm feeling the weight of my dissertation hanging over me. Jes took this picture.

Dan is getting ready for his backpacking trip. He ordered this little tripod for a camera. It's all bendy. I set it on a basket and took...

First day of March. Dan and I went for a hike on the trail around town and I saw blooming crocuses! Then we went to eat dinner at my favorit...

I am currently buried underneath the weight of a dissertation proposal that is marching to a tight timeline. Every once in a while, I take a...

Mom's birthday! And a lunar eclipse! Here's my best picture out of like 80something that I took. Jes came over and she and Squirt an...

It's a pretty day out and I've been working really hard on re-writing Chapter 3. Now that all the Marzipan is gone, I'm going th...

OK, so like, I ate some marzipan. Well, SOMEBODY ate it. There was 2 pounds on Valentines' morning and now this is all that's left. ...

We drove to see Aza and she took me to the place where she got her hair done. I said, "Make mine just like hers!" and look- it is!...

Today I went to meet with my advisor about my dissertation chapter 3. I found out that I have a lot of work to do and I'm not happy. So ...

Valentine's Day. I made chili for dinner for my "boys" and Dan gave me 2 pounds of little marzipan candies shaped like fruit. ...

Squirt turned 17 today. At 6 feet tall, he's not much of a squirt, but I've been calling him that since he was 2 years old, so it st...

Today Dan and I went for a walk around campus. We also stopped in at Brooks Hall where Jes has some photos on display. She did an ethnogr...

Uncle Raven I and have been friends with each other and with Murph for 30 years. We went to Murph's funeral today and did a eulogy toge...

Felt better today and made plans for going to Murph's funeral later this week. Took some chicken pictures and framed one of K's Budd...

This morning my high school friend of thirty years, Murph, died. She died of heart failure while waiting for a transplant. I was actually co...

Dan and I have been walking different places around town recently. Today we walked around a section called Belmont. It was really interestin...

It iced today. Squirt had off school.

This is a painting my mom gave me three years ago, I think. It is an original by a well known artist from her area of Alabama. She gave one ...

Today Jes came over with her roommate, a tripod, a black sheet, a big lamp thing, and borrowed my camera to take photos for her roommate...

Breakfast of French Toast at the Tavern, then a walk around the cool old neighborhoods nearby.