Part 2

Slightly more abstract photos. Something about snow, shadows, and contrast made it hard to not get overly distracted taking photos.

The beautiful land of Tahoe

Spent a week playing trivia games by the fire and chasing an adorable puppy through the snow in Tahoe.

Lake Tahoe itself, on a very blustery day. 

Fallen leaf. A pretty intense hike to take through unpacked snow, but completely worth it. Felt like the only people around.

Leaves

In a slight deviation from the normal, here's a video of Coco playing "Winter Song". I just recorded her playing, so its pretty rough (the camera wanders off to look at a mountain at one point but oh well). Basically she's very talented and this song is beautiful.

I'm not sure if that upload worked but in case it didn't, here's a youtube link: Winter Song

Also, here are some tropical leaves. There's really no relation, but they're also kind of beautiful, so I guess we have that.

Hoop

Super excited to have just been featured as hooping.org's photo of the day.

Link here: http://www.hooping.org/2012/02/cadence-chinle/
This website is a really cool place to go for all things hooping, and even if you think you're not "into" hooping, it's pretty inspiring.

Here's another photo from that shoot

Zoo

Photos from San Diego's Zoo

 

And of course, my favorite animal ever. 

Southern Utah in Winter

Spent a brief week in Rockville recently, taking in the epic clouds and overwhelming silence.

Banana pancakes and trying to watch the sunrise through clouds.

Edited this one quite a bit (as I assume is obvious), but actually being there is so striking that this edit seems pretty accurate. 

That Face

A lovely giraffe at the San Diego Zoo