Happy Passover (and Easter too)

My parents are visiting from the US, the kids are on vacation, and I'm hosting Passover Seder for twenty Monday night so as you can imagine the holiday chaos is in full gear around the island and blogging time is in very short supply.

My very best wishes for a happy and meaningful holiday to all those celebrating this week.

I'll leave you for now with this, captured on a walk around town with my new D7000 (finally! yay!!) and new nifty-fifty portrait lens. I cannot wait to get out on a real photo shoot and put this thing through its paces. There's a bit of a learning curve but so far I am loving what I'm seeing.

Have a great holiday week and happy springtime to everyone!

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Wild Anemones

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I'm delighted to announce that this image was selected as a finalist in The Pioneer Woman's Beauty assignment - what an honor and a thrill!

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Wild anemones blooming near my home, just a few feet away from these.

More rubies can be found here.

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My photography is available for purchase - visit Around the Island Photography and bring home something beautiful today!

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If the photo you're wishing for is something you've seen here on the blog which isn't in my etsy shop yet just let me know and I'll happily list it for you.

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Yellow Bougainvillea

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Happy holidays to one and all.

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Five on Friday

I didn't feel like blogging about the much more serious issue of what's going on with Maya and her issues today, so I decided to stick my head in the sand and try out a new meme I just stumbled across instead. Of course I could do one of the two memes I was just tagged for, but I want to give those a bit more thought first.

So without further ado, here is my inaugural issue of Five on Friday:

1. Have you ever worn hand-me-downs? Who did you get them from?
Sure. I got stuff from an older cousin all the time as a child. These days I occasionally get clothes from girlfriends, but not often.

2. Have you ever given hand-me-downs? Who did you give them to?
My sister has gotten lots of my baby clothes, since I know she'll return them should I ever decide to need them again. Other local friends get other clothes, and we've got a major circular equipment swap with a number of other friends. The idea being to keep all the large, hard to store stuff in permanent circulation until you need it again. I haven't seen my exersaucer in years, or my baby bucket either!

3. How do you feel about hand-me-downs in general? Do you like the idea of recycling things or does it bother you to have something used?
I like it. It's gentler on the planet. It's crazy to spend so much money and use so many resources for things you'll use for a very short time.

4. Do you ever visit yard sales? (maybe you call them garage sales, tag sales, junk sales, etc...)
I would if they had them in Israel, but they don't really. Maybe because most of us don't have garages, lawns to hold a sale on, or the ability to store enough crap to warrant one. We do have kids toy swaps though.

5. If given $25,000 to buy furniture and decorate your home, would you buy new pieces or antiques? Why?
New. I like vintage clothing sometimes, and have no problem at all with hand-me-downs for my kids, but for home decorating I prefer a much more modern, cleaner (as in cleaner lines) look.