my absolute favorite time of year. january-march. it is BEAUTIFUL here. cool and crisp. sunny. and sometimes rainy.
i met up with emily and lisa in oceanside a couple weekends back. it was freezing-but the kids did not care, as you can see. i just love spending time with these girls. its so weird to think that these beautiful people in my life have such an impact on my children too.
once, anna and i were playing the “describing game” where you describe something or someone until the other person guesses. and we were doing people.
anna said: i am thinking of a girl.
and she has black hair.
but she doesnt have any daughters.
and she likes me a lot.
and i didnt even have to guess. i knew it was lisa. and speaking of lisa: here is lovely laughing lisa at a different beach on a different day.
photos from that beach day to come.
i gasped when i saw the third photo….that can’t be your drew!!!! oh my gosh. he is all grown up. *sigh* fun pics…
awww what fUN!
i am so glad to see you posting some shots of your little cutie pies!!! they are all so adorable! and isn’t it crazy how some of your best friends are from online?! mine are too and i think it’s so crazy coOL!
tara
CA winters are a lot like FL winters….Lov ’em…just wrote about them in my blog last night!!
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You should put a disclaimer that it’s Southern California Winters you love because is sure isn’t that lovely here in Northern California. Cold is all we got here. =)
Tes photos sont un vrai régale pour les yeux.
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Virginie
catherine-i was JUST thinking that-hahahaa! i had better change it! :)
It’s a balmy 23 degrees here – jealous much??!! Hey, us Minnesotans aren’t hard to please -if it’s above zero we think it’s a heat wave! I AM jealous – my kids SO need to frolic outside & that looks like SO much fun!!
I am so jealous of your California Winter…Here in good ole’ East TN it is in the 40’s and they are calling for some serious snow the next few days….=(
:)
Smooch!
As I sit here dreaming of the rebirth of spring, and looking at the new blanket of snow in what seems like the winter that just won’t end…I am a touch jealous of your ocean and your mild weather. Enjoy every little second!
oh tara! these are so lovely and you’ve truly captured what it’s like to be a child here. just beautiful.
oh sunshine. how i long for thee.
what fun!
Man, I miss Southern California so much. I’m tired of snow and cold. I would love one warm day at the beach. Just one.
So funny how jealous the rest of the country is of our weather!! I love it! I’m an O’side local… but haven’t braved taking my young kids to the beach this time of year! Looks like you’ve been in my neck of the woods a few times lately. I always wonder… when do we get to the point that we feel the cold, more than the desire to play and have fun! Such an adult thing… COLD! Looks like fun, sometimes I wish I weren’t such and ADULT.
It’s snowing again here in the midwest!! :( I wish I were in California….oh wait I will be this Summer….can’t wait! Great photos!
lucky girl.
ria
All I have to say is that I am so jealous. Utah is crappy and cold!!!
Gorgeous. A photo shoot with you is one of the things on my to-do before I die list.
I love January weather too! I was down in San Diego this past weekend, taking walks on the beach, while it rained back here in L.A. ;)
Oh, I miss California in the winter, the bay area would just fog over and my nose was always pink going to school. Ireland turns positively glacial! Well, not quite, but almost. :)
Lovely series of photos!
I could so get used to those kinds of winters.. ours are cold cold freezing bitter frozen subfrozeness blah..
I could enjoy that type of winter you know. I used to play the naming game with my daughter, around the same age. Once we were on the Metro in Paris (we lived there) and she was describing this thing that was big and metal and…. and a guy chimed in with “an escalator!” and the whole carriage laughed. We hadn’t realised everyone was listening, LOL.
I’m sooooo jealous!! We got another 6 inches of snow here in Chicago!! Ugggg….. I so need warmer weather. At least your pics can help me “feel” a bit warmer!! LOL!
I’ve been so, so, so homesick for such a long time now and this posting didn’t help any… : ( Well, no, it helped give me the kick in the pants to do whatever it takes to make my next vacation a visit to “home”.
I traveled to CA for the first time in January and was in Carlsbad for one sunny gorgeous week (for work, though, so all day was inside). Went to the surf beach north of Carlsbad (I think it was Oceanside?) twice on the trip. Then back to northeast OHIO where today I am living with 12-18 INCHES OF SNOW!!!!!! It’s the second snow day in a row.
I often look at your pictures and had wondered if it’s really truly as beautiful in CA as it looks. It is.
I kept thinking to myself the whole time I was there — wow, I’m near where Tara Whitney must live — and those photographers from The Image is Found — and Jamie Waters, too. How different a society we live in where we feel like we “know” those whose blogs and photos and lives we lurk about!!!! (Or, at the very least, the connections we find over the internet make us find familiar places when we’ve never been there before.)
Glad you share all of your fabulous beach photos — it reminds me of a nice respite from Ohio winter and to plan a trip back!
I am so jealous right now! We are about to break our snow record of 111″ set back in 2005-2006…we have been averaging 2-3 storms a week, usually a foot with each one.
Please send nice weather back east! LOL!
I’m so jealous! I can’t wait to do some outdoor shoots…of course even when it does warm up I won’t have an ocean side beach to shoot at. :-( It’s such a fabulous location though, you’re so lucky! ;-)
This time of year is the best in Florida too. The days are *perfect*- 75 and not humid….Caden is chompin at the bit to get to the beach so we went the other day. Love it.
nice! you should have stopped by and say hello!!
I am utterly wowwwed by your photos…i dont even feel like photos is the right word.. let me start over..I am utterly wowwwwed by your stories…yes that is the word. ever one evokes emotion and tells me a story. I am happy to have stumbled here..and i will continue to come back for more.
you are a true talent.