the 53 project : week 10

Saturday -- sunny and cold -- was clean-the-garage-and basement day.  This was no 3-trips-to-the-dump kind of job.  This was 7+ years of STUFF -- so I got serious and rented a dumpster.  And now I feel liberated!  Out from under the clutter and mess!  Hallelujah!

 Maybe now there'll be room in the garage for an actual car.

 This little keyboard hasn't worked for 4 years, 

but we kept hoping that somehow it would magically start working again

and someone would learn to play it.

 A clean sweep

 

 Me -- tired, dirty, and clutter-free!

 Summer's right around the corner, right?

Well, maybe we'll have to brave a few more snowstorms.  

(This photo is for my mother, to show her that

Willow and I are just as cold-hardy as she is
and can step outside in our bare feet, too.)  xoxo

tell me a color story

This week's C&C Photography assignment is to tell a color story. My color is green and my story is spring/cleaning. I used bits of red as green's complement. In my photos I've juxtaposed the first sprouts of spring with a day of spring cleaning, including tidying, dusting, garage clearing, a trip to the dump, and car washing. The person shown feeding the gulls is my father - it's a photo of a framed photo of him from the 1960s -- I gave him a good dusting while I was at it!