Green Eyes

Nauset Beach

This weekend Eric & I took a trip to Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It was awesome, very realxing, and involved lots of sun, rum, and lobster.  I've spent a lot of time my whole life along the east coast; from Miami, FL to Myrtle Beach, SC to the entire coast of New England... And this weekend I found the nicest beach I've ever seen on the east coast: Nauset Beach. The warm water was clear turquoise, and had no rocks, seaweed, or debris...the white sand was beautiful, and the miles of dunes behind the beach made the place seem very exotic and isolated.  Honestly, it reminded me of the beaches I encountered when I was on the Turks & Caicos islands, in the Carribbean. Unfooortunately I left my camera at home, and these internet photos do NO justice for how it really was. There were some decent waves, and we had rented surfboards for the day, but the waves were breaking too shallow to catch anything worthwhile.... and the fact that there was a shark swimming among us in the water made us spend the rest of the day in the sand anyways!

Great Hollow Lake

Went hiking with my camera last weekend around Monroe. I was fussing with the aperature and shutter speed for a good part of the day being that the lighting was difficult to accomodate; the tree covered trail was very dark, and the lake was so bright. But I finally got a couple shots I'm happy with. Here's one of em:

Apartment E2

Last night, after weeks of packing, moving and painting, was my last night stepping foot within the legendary walls of Jefferson Arm's Apartment E2.  It's time to move onto bigger and better things, but I want to thank everybody who spent their time enjoying their days with us there.  It will make me smile whenever I recall the things like the themed parties in 2004, the lazy Unsolved Mystery lunch sessions, the mattress robbery, my best friend being right across the hall, run away cat, dance extravaganzas, walking through the woods to Mike & Russell's, chillin at KC101 at all crazy hours, the smell of Eli's brick oven when the windows were open, Halloween, sprinkler fun next door, walking to get sushi, Subway and Glenwood, the sirens blaring from the firehouse next door, the Hall of Shame, "The Locals", roomates with cancer lies, playing dress-up, roomates who demand silence at 6pm, snow days walking to breakfast at the Brownstone, Heather NEVER making key copies, ALL the drunken walks home from the Pub, pre-gaming before New Haven nights, all the drunken living room sleepovers, Eli's, poop in the dryer, "hey lady!", the Nerf guns, Sunday football, the cops coming to every party we had, family holiday dinners, the after party mega-tired treks upstairs, carpooling to school /concerts/ work/ parties/ bars/ Summer 05 Tuesday nights at Dublin's/ southington, the vodka-snow-in incident, lockouts, fireworks from the rooftop, that old guy in the window, and the 5,234,980,833,520,004 laughs that took place there. 


How lucky am I to have been able to live in such an awesome place with my best friends for two happy and successful years?


             

Portrait of an Era

  If you're into photography at all, or classic rock, you have to check out Linda McCartney's book, Portrait of an Era; Sixties.  The images alone are reason enough to see it, but Linda's personal accounts of being pre-fame friends with some of rock's most influencial people like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and of course The Beatles are extreeeeemely captivating.  Best book I've found in awhile.

And this music video is slightly corny, BUT, it displays some of Linda's undeniable talent.

Ringo

I can check one thing off on my life's To-Do List today.  Last night 5 friends and I caught Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band concert at Mohegan Sun!!  So, maybe Ringo was the least prominent member of the Beatles, BUT, he is a Beatle, performing Beatles songs, right before my very eyes and ears!!  Considering there are only two living Beatles left, I feel good that I got to see an authentic performance of "Honey Don't", and "What Goes On". The All-Starrs were great too; I really liked Rod Argent's performance of Time of the Season. My favorite part of the show was undoubtably when Ringo concluded the evening with the legendary second track off what I personally have always considered to be one of the greatest and most influential rock albums of all time, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "With a Little Help from My Friends"!!!

Milford Harbor

Yesterday Eric & I went kayaking around sunset in the Milford Harbor. Yes, even with a broken hand, HAH! My kayak is no yaht, but it felt very luxurious and relaxing to be there on the water. We started back by the library, moved up through where all the boats are docked, laughed at all the boat names, then made it out into the sound along Gulf Beach.  The weather was so perfect and the view of the sailboats clustered around Charles Island was stunning... it really made me want to try sailing. I'll give a dollar to anyone who wants to bring me out sailing this summer.

Newport, R.I.

Great friends, good conversation, steady laughs, praise-worthy architecture, traveling someplace new, and flawless weather?  Yes, my definition of a beautiful day. This Sunday a couple friends and I headed out to Newport for the day.  We got to Bannister's Wharf around lunchtime, and had a great lunch with some fabulous Bloody Marys, did some shopping, and frolicked around the grounds of The Elms.  After that we caught an awesome tour of the less fancy but still very impressive Isaac Bell House, which was done by McKim, Mead & White.  After that, we relaxed on the beach and explored the rocks and cliffs around Gooseberry Beach.  We decided to watch the sunset from the docks, and we barhopped for a couple hours before heading back for one final beach episode, followed by our drive home that brought us back in the early hours of Monday morning.

Great Big Stuff

Watched some of the World Cup today in NYC's Little Italy for lunch, did some shopping, enjoyed dinner and free beer at Patsy's on E 60th, which may just be my favorite street to eat on in that city, and then saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway... it's incredibly hilarious!!! I reccomend it to anyone who loves to laugh.

Fourth of July

This 4th of July was very fun and relaxing, and I got a chance to spend time with some favorites... participated in an excess amount of partying, bar hopping, hangovers ("Wtf?!"), swimming, floating down Farmington Rivers ("Save yourseeelf!"),  traveling out of state for parties, Milf watching, boating, girl on girl mud wrestling in the rain, illegally jumping off piers (even wiiiith a broken finger), wiffle ball games, sunbathing, hot dog eating, firework watching, horseshoe playing, man-bear-pig hunting, and hash brown cooking. How come we don't do this every weekend?!?!?! Suuuuch a good time!!!