olde film photos.

pete found some photos from his old film camera that we took loonnng ago! i just LOVE looking through real, tangible, hold-in-your-two-hands photographs. there is just something so great about it. i don't even care if i don't know the people in the photos... i wanna see em!

here are some that i found the other day. i'm thinking this is 2009-2010.

^^these are my favorite. just look at pete's pure joy being pulled behind the sailboat. not even wakeboarding or waterskiing or anything, just a good ol' fashioned swim-behind-a-boat-while-holding-a-rope sesh. that boy lives to swim.

^^ oohh this picture gives me so many college feels. i'd probably just packed up my little bags and scampered off to hang out with pete and procrastinate my homework on a school night. or maybe we just got off work (we used to work at starbucks until 2 or 3am!). wearing my hood was the best (perhaps even my trademark? my college "look," haha!); the pinnacle in comfort. i don't really wear em up that often anymore, so this pic brings me back to all the days of rollin round town in my hoooood. rollin on a bicycle, that is, because i did not have a car. i essentially had two outfits: my all black smelly coffee starbucks work outfit, and an arsenal of hooded sweatshirts that i wore to school, at home, and to bed. 

^^ i love looking at these because i can tell who took which photos. i think its really sweet & adorable to see a photo that peter took of an otherwise bramble-y, unappealing area in the woods with a few pretty daisies or buttercups popping up. its so interesting to see how different people interpret a given space and how they use a camera to capture the space. the close-up mushroom photo...that's just more my style (i also did a pencil drawing in college of that mushroom photo, so seeing it again really brought me back!). i like to get up close to things. pete likes to capture things in a wider context. 

^^ this photo of me sinking in our inflatable water craft...peter just taking a photo from afar instead of helping me. lololol.

^^ these pics crack me up and also put me right back into the "stress" of college. pete visited me at the ceramics studio that night, where it looks like i am having a great time. he left to go check his work schedule and then came back with TWO beverages for me, a smoothie and an americano. because he wasn't sure which one i would be in the mood for (and because we got that shit for free). but, how sweet is that?! he was in freaking engineering school and could have been doing a zillion more important things. i love that guy. 

art school is weird because you're just forced to create, create, create on a whim. all the time. even when you have zero inspiration or have no idea what to do for a project, you still have to come up with something. there are so many projects i look back on and i'm like, whoaaa i can't believe i made that. because when you're prompted to make something within a certain theme, you're already being put outside your comfort zone. anyhoo, that photo is me undoubtedly scrambling to make something out of clay that would hopefully become a revolutionary work of art. definitely didn't happen. except maybe this huge tootsie roll i made. i still like that thing!

i'm so glad these photos exist. as amazing and convenient it is to be able to see billions of photos on a digital gadget at all times, there is just something so much more meaningful about photos taken on a film camera. you've only got one chance to get the shot, and the outcome is so much more authentic and real.

also, i ought to lay off the triangle-y patterned home goods.

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winter weekend camping on whidbey island.

petah and i wanted to do somesing fun and get away for a quick trip on valentine's day.  we bounced back and forth between a few ideas for short road trips, but ended up taking the ferry over to whidbey island. i had actually never even been to whidbey..wat!? how i enjoyed it so!

all of the following photos were taken on my iphone 6.

i'm not sure how i feel about this new a color story app. i think it is cool, and made this photo of the bus above look cool, but i kinda feel like its cheating in a way.  with all the great photo editing apps these days, i feel like people's photos are already so altered. the photo above is super misleading, as it looks like we are cruising down some sun-drenched highway in the warmth of summertime. it sorta makes me feel like i cheated the actual experience we had. now i just feel like i have to be even more skeptical of people's photos on social media and such. someone who captures a real moment similar to this with the sun flare feeling of warmth will probably just be thought to have used an app to edit it that way. bummer duuuude. the true photo of this is below.

aww yeah...good and grey. pacific northwest style (with a little help from vsco cam app). completely different though, yeah? 

anyhoo...

i love taking the ferry! it makes me feel like i'm really gooooing somewhere, without really going too far at all.

um hellooooo, coupeville! so quaint! this is where they filmed the town scenes in practical magic. << this clip also shows a bit of a scene at their house, which was filmed at san juan county state park. peter and i camped right thereeeeeee some years ago. KOOL HUH!? i thought so. i love dat movie. someone left it onnnn the porrrrrch! (ps isn't it wild that you can find a clip of basically every obscure movie line on youtube these days? i used to say that with my friend all the time. still funny to me.)

thanks to my pal whitney (whom hails from whidbey island) for all the good recommendations!

we went to toby's tavern in coupeville, where pete enjoyed a muy grande pile of fresh mussels and we had garlic bread and beer. it is a funky cool place! and we bought the most delicious buttery coconut chocolate chip cookie from the counter before we left. must recreate soon.

we drove up to deception pass to find one of the few campsites that are open during the winter. such pretty views! even in the gloominess of the pacific northwest winter, i think this is really beautiful. 

the campsite we found was supa depressing to me. it was in the "woods" somewhere off the highway, all the sites were really close together, and everyone was just sitting inside their RV's watching tv on their big screens.. i just don't get that. you're camping, people! at least pretend that you like being outside. so we pressed on to another campground that we saw was open at fort casey state park.

flamingos!?

these large rain puddles/reservoirs looked really pretty with the mountain range reflecting. already ten notches better than the other campground, and we hadn't even arrived yet.

pete & the trusty cheddar bus! one of these photos was featured on this blog. i looked at their instagram, and ludacris has something to do with it. soo that's neato i suppose. ya know, area codes and stuff.

happy campers! the campground at fort casey is super wide open and right next to the port townsend ferry (also pretty much a big area full of RV's), but we liked it here way way way better than the other option. its right on the water and you can walk around the fort and see these awesome views.

can ya see our teeny cheddar bus down yonder? also, the rocks were so pretty and colorful down by the water! ^^^

after i put together this post from our west coast road trip last summer, i realized i should have taken more photos of what the inside of the bus looks like while we're camping. its such a hilarious dump.

my mannn petah built us a quality fire before we fixed ourselves our romantiq valentine's day spaghetti dinner. i don't think we've ever made spaghetti while camping, but it was good. and we had some wine that we'd been saving from my friend's winery. we only got to enjoy the fire for a short bit before it started raining. and continued raining allllllll night and allllllll the next morning. the bus is super cozy to sleep in when its raining, though. we took off in the morn and waited to cook our camp brekky at home instead of making it in the rain. 

it was a delightful valentine's day out! :)

xoxoxo

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