Author Archives: Tara Jo

Hummingbirds = Love

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Tara Jo

Hummingbirds were my maternal grandmothers favorite bird. i took these this afternoon and they always bring her to mind, she would have been 94 on feb 11, but she passed away in 2011. I am blessed to have so many … Continue reading →

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Day 14 | Jan 14 | Something Yellow

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Tara Jo

The  Bat Signal on my daughter’s new sweater is yellow 🙂

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Day 13 | Jan 13 | Circle

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Tara Jo

Circle 🙂 pretty self explanatory, but I decided to dress it up a little by taking the picture of said circle, through a slinky 🙂 Join the Photo a day challenge at Fat Mum Slim’s blog

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Day 12 | Jan 12 | Surprise

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Tara Jo

Checking the weather for tomorrow morning certainly gave me a ‘surprise’.  I live in southern california, it is not EVER supposed to be 26 degrees fahrenheit  at my house. celcius would be all right.. i could live with that. even now … Continue reading →

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Day 11 | Jan 11 | Water

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Tara Jo

  i took a picture earlier today of a glass of water, but then  i remembered this sequence of images i took a few years ago when my nephew was visiting and i took him for his first visit to … Continue reading →

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Day 10 | Jan 10 | 1 o’clock

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Tara Jo

1 o’clock at one today we ran to the Smart and Final store on my lunch break to get some baking supplies, my daughter runs a little cupcake bakery and has an order to be delivered tomorrow evening, so we … Continue reading →

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Day 9 | Jan 9 | Paper

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Tara Jo

Paper, Priceless Paper These used to be a common sight in a teenage girls backpack and notebook, i think now they are almost completely replaced by IMs and text messages. these are notes to and from my now husband when we … Continue reading →

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Day 8 | Jan 8 | Something beginning with ‘T’

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Tara Jo

of course i could have gone with the obvious ‘tara’ (that’s me!) but instead we have ‘together’ this is the first time in many years all 4 of us girls have been together.  we celebrated thanksgiving with mom and dad and in … Continue reading →

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Going to the gym..

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Tara Jo

I have decided that rather than have a bunch of specific resolutions for the new year I would just have one more general one that I could work toward in different ways, so without further ado… my 2013 goal… GET … Continue reading →

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Day 7 | Jan 7 | Street

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Tara Jo

this is the ‘street’ that i grew up on, and my parents still live on. This particular stretch is between their house and the barn and doesn’t get as much traffic as the mile stretch of gravel from their house to … Continue reading →

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