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your gifts.
from mother earth.
her snow, on a spring day.
unexpected
beautiful white flakes.
turning to water drops
at the slightest touch.
she said ‘take my hand,
i will show you magic.’
our hands outstretched to each other…
she kissed my fingertips
leaving wet traces along the deep lines in my hands,
she blew softly
chilling my fingers…
she whispered heavily,
and told me to wrap myself up warm.
later,
she appeared with the sun
warming my cool hands,
kissing my cheeks.
completely didn’t properly introduce the girls, so i thought i would post their photos and show you who is who…
First up is Cassie. She is gentle, sweet, full of heart… she is a goddess.. amazing writer, photographer, mama. Resides in Scotland-but sadly is moving back to the states this summer.. boo..
Second, Tara. She is a ball of energy, laughter, spirit, and down to earth… amazing photographer, amazing friend. Resides in New York City, but is visiting England because her boyfriend lives here! She just happened to make it to town when we’d all be meeting up, so she was the surprise guest!
Third, (bottom left) Cass. She is…the sweetest.. my sister, completely. she is so gentle, kind, sweet, soft, loyal. Her laughter is the sweetest music I have ever heard. She is a beautiful photographer, mama, and over all goofball. She is English, but resides in Belgium.
Fourth is Melissa. She is so sweet, generous, kind.. full of laughter and soul, such a talent, girl next door-best friend kinda girl. Immediately when I left her house I was wishing that we were next door neighbours so we could run around her little village together. She resides in England, but plans on moving back to the states within the next year or so.
I met all of these girls through Flickr. One of my besties at home mentioned how our styles and such seem so similar to each other-and well, really we just feed off of each other. learn from each other, give to each other… When I was with Tara-she showed me a few tricks with my camera, helping me adjust things, letting me use her fancy lenses. When I was at Melissa’s-she showed me her tricks of the trade in post processing. We’re all just a big sisterhood of creative girls.. love them so much.
Hello again! I am back from my little journey across the pond. I can’t really even begin to tell you how amazing it was.
It was quite an experience. Leaving my love behind, travelling on my own, budget airlines…, meeting with girls that just felt like home. –it was so completely natural. as if we hang out all the time (which we do, just..no in person) Meeting these girls who are complete inspirations to me, wonderful, talented friends…
I got off my plane to be greeted by Melissa, found our way over to the other terminals to wait for Cassie… Got ourselves on the train to Cambridge-talking and laughing and looking at the creepy scarecrows in the fields. Found sweet Cass waiting for us. Made our way through the quaint little city, bicycles e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. still chatting, heading to our hotel, left our bags and went outside where we met with Tara, and her boyfriend.
We went stomping around the city, cameras out. Taking pictures of each other taking pictures… Seriously, pretty much all we did the entire time was take pictures of each other…taking pictures of each other..taking pictures of things.
ha.
Walked around until I had blisters on the bottom of my feet… ouch. Ate yummy food, talked and laughed until we cried… Cass tested out the jumpability of the beds, and we all passed out fairly early on Saturday night. Sunday was fairly uneventful, leaving Cass back at the train station. Sitting around talking, leaving Cassie at the train-and then there were two… Melissa and I took the bus to her cute little village, went out for an amazing italian pizza, and crashed on the floor…
On Monday I made my way home, we had a lovely breakfast together-and then Melissa dropped me off at the train station. Boarded up and arrived home in the cold weather of Dublin.
Miss my girls already-wish that we were closer…
^ photos by tara
^photos by melissa
^photo by cassie
Over the next few days I will post some photos that I took in Cambridge. You can visit my flickr stream to see some more posted there!
