{"id":8338,"date":"2013-06-16T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2013-06-16T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:16:32","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-catching-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/this-week-in-pictures-catching-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: Catching up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>hese past few weeks have redefined the word &#8220;busy&#8221; for me. There have been several presentations for work and outside of work, class trips, celebrations, BBQs, meetings, and everyone in the family has been taken out by one illness or another.  I kept taking pictures through most of it, although I think I did miss a day or two, but I&#8217;ve entirely forgotten to blog about them.  Here&#8217;s a couple of my favourites in a catch-up post.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the number of family portraits I produce in a year, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be better at cranking out one or two of my own family every now and then, eh? So I made sure to snag the opportunity when I had everyone (more or less) cleaned up for our dear friends&#8217; wedding anniversary recently to get this photo of the five of us.  I do love it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/9036460755\/\" title=\"&quot;Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.&quot; ~ author unknown by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3709\/9036460755_84f7799c0e_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"&quot;Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.&quot; ~ author unknown\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wedding anniversaries&#8230; you know the kind of friends in your life who are the very first ones you call when something goes wrong and also the very first ones you call when something goes right and you can&#8217;t wait to share the news? These are those friends for me.  We&#8217;ve all been friends since high school and they are so deeply woven into the fabric of my life that they are definitely more family than friends. And they celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary this week (how is that possible when we&#8217;re all still 17 years old?) by renewing their vows. How wonderful is that?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/9028588557\/\" title=\"Todd &amp; Yvonne by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3667\/9028588557_64bca93dd0_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Todd &amp; Yvonne\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve discovered a new favourite path for family walks along the Rideau River, so whenever we get a break from the rain we try to get out for a wander.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/9022598119\/\" title=\"Family walk by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5322\/9022598119_793b69c254_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Family walk\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of rain, at least it has been good for the flowers. These are columbine in my mother&#8217;s garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/9000795701\/\" title=\"Columbine (I think) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7365\/9000795701_1d23e5b756_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Columbine (I think)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And also speaking of rain (oy, the rain), when I saw this guy in Starbucks on a rainy morning, I kinda had to take his photo. I&#8217;m not usually one for surreptitious street photography but I love how this came out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/8883776105\/\" title=\"Lounging in Starbucks by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3721\/8883776105_28e7403dbf_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Lounging in Starbucks\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know people spend a lot of time trying to get rid of dandelions, but I think they&#8217;re lovely, especially when they seed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/8896105104\/\" title=\"Make a wish by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3813\/8896105104_d12bff1c9a_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Make a wish\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry neighbours!)<\/p>\n<p>Is it summer vacation yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These past few weeks have redefined the word &#8220;busy&#8221; for me. There have been several presentations for work and outside of work, class trips, celebrations, BBQs, meetings, and everyone in the family has been taken out by one illness or another. I kept taking pictures through most of it, although I think I did miss &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/this-week-in-pictures-catching-up-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This week in pictures: Catching up!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8340,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}