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{Carly and her daughter at the Valley of the Sunflowers}

I got to meet Carly and her daughter at the Valley of the Sunflowers Picnic and take photos of them. Carly has a restaurant: Carly's Bistro in Roosevelt Row in Phoenix. (128 E. Roosevelt) Have you been? I love the place, it's so chill and the food is sooooo beyond good.  

You should definitely go!

One of my favorite memories is just killing time there one afternoon reading this book called Paris Noir, while I was waiting to go somewhere else. And another favorite memory is of going there with my friend Eddy - we led a discussion on Twitter about downtown Phoenix and it was cool to see the city skyline at night while we were discussing our city.

So go to Carly's!

And now on to the photos of Carly and her daughter at the Sunflower Picnic. 

(If I have photos of you from the Sunflowers, I definitely have not forgotten - although I know it seems like it - and you will be getting your photos. If you think I might not have your email address, please email me at [email protected] - thanks!)

Giggly girls in summer dresses!

Running through a field of sunflowers! Don't you kind of wish that is what you were doing right now?

I use a photoshop plugin called Exposure 4 by Alien Skin to get these photos to have that look of film from the 1800's.

And she's off!

Thanks Carly! I had a blast taking photos of you and your girl.

Go HERE to see more images from the Valley of the Sunflowers.

{Number 63 on the Jackelope Ranch list of 100 Creative People}

Have I really not posted anything in over 40 days?

And for almost 5 months I posted something almost once a day on my blog? PROOF.

I think it's 'cause I started posting photos to Instagram. It's a pretty fun creative outlet and it made me forget my blog. And then I smashed my phone and I can't use Instagram and I remembered I have a blog.

So much happened the last 40 days.

My mom came home from the hospital after being there for almost a month, I babysat my friend's house, I went to a bunch of art openings in downtown Phoenix, I fell in love with the music of Frank Ocean, I played ultimate frisbee at least once a week, I did a bunch of photography work, I pretty much never cleaned house and the one time I tried to mow the lawn I ran over the soaker hose, I bought way too much nail polish and painted my nails way too much, I went swimming, to belly dance-yoga classes, hiking Camelback, went disco dancing - it's been really, really hard to sit still these past couple months. (Which is one reason I am still getting to editing photos from the Sunflower Picnic, so if I owe you photos, I haven't forgotten.)

And I got put on Jackelope Ranch's list of 100 creative people in Phoenix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

See that post HERE. I am so beyond delighted to have been included.

All those exclamation points are there to give you an idea of how delighted. (But it's more like this: ! x 10^10000000000000. Delight the font size of the universe!)

Thank you Claire Lawton for making me Number 63!

Number 63 seems like the perfect number to me because 1963 is the year my dad won a Cadillac. Long silver boat of a behemoth Cadillac.

Didn't buy it, people, he won it. How lucky is that?!

He's the man in the middle and ooh la la, he looks so Mad Men! 

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