Cafe de Valentine

being new home owners there are always "projects" to be done. the past few weekends as the weather has been getting nicer those projects have been outdoors. ryan usually digging, planting, pulling, weeding, mowing or sweeping and me... well, i photograph it all. it's the part i enjoy. and this last weekend as i felt i should get dirty and dig a little he consistently asked me " you want me to do that?" so i'm guessing i either looked way out of my element or i wasn't doing it "right". i'll stick to the photographs or maybe i'll sleep in next time. :) i enjoy my role. our herbs are begining to sprout this week. we're still debating on the garden. we were all go this weekend and then stopped to figure out how to get rid of the grass that is where we want the garden. when we couldn't come up with a "simple solution" we opted out of the garden and bought flowers for the front yard. now i think we have a solution so we migh

i hate your stinking guts. you make me vomit. you're the scum between my toes. love, melissa yes, if you live in fresno or have ever in your life lived near fresno you are familiar with these little beauties. about three weeks ago they went from bare branches to white bushels of flowers that STINK like you wouldn't believe! that was when i realized the cute little tree in our front yard was a flowering pear. that's also when i realized that our genius home developer planted one in every front yard. yes our entire block is lined with flowering pear trees. so for the last three weeks we've been blessed with stinky bliss. oh and let me mention that our office is surrounded by them as well. well this week the white flowering trees have begun to shed their pedals in exchange for their leaves. in this process there is pollen EVERYWHERE. with the bit of rain and a lot of wind that we've had this week it has looked like it's snowing here all week. while it's pretty

so this blogging thing is weird. i had no clue what to write about when i started (even though i have at least 10 blogs that i follow and love, you'd think i could pull from others creative genius) and no matter how often i swear i'll get to it it seems that it takes the back seat more often then not. the bottom line is, i love love love reading others blogs even if they're about nothing in peticular and i enjoy writing on here when i do get the chance. it's a journal of sorts (funny thing i was never good and keep up a journal either... i see a pattern forming). so, what do i love in a blog? 1. authenticity 2. photos 3. humor 4. diversity i don't really care to hear people's random opinions, but i do want to know what keeps them up at night. so i said all that to say, i hope to soon start bloggin more about what's real in my life, what photos i've taken along the way, and hopefully make you laugh along the way. i saw this article today and figured i'