Signs of Spring: Cherry Blossoms

Another picture from my walk through the Gardens. This one dedicated to my mother, whose birthday is today.

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Signs of Spring: Redbuds

The blooming trees around here haven’t actually gotten me to run my car off the road yet, but not for lack of trying. I took a walk through the Gardens before I left work today and took a few pictures. I thought this very close-up shot of a redbud branch was interesting. It certainly does [...]

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A Few Wedding Pictures

As Mark and I are fast approaching our 2-month anniversary, I thought it’d be nice if I finally got around to posting a few of our favorite wedding photos. There are, of course, hundreds more, and my uncle Ray did a fantastic job taking them all, for which we are eternally grateful.
One of the first [...]

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Cherry Blossoms, 2008

Even though our tea ceremony programs kindly provided us with a map of all the different cherry trees in the university gardens, we didn’t actually take the opportunity to go look at them, given the drizzly and somewhat startlingly cold weather. Fortunately, though, I had gotten to see some of them earlier in the week, [...]

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Tournament Pictures

Slightly belated, due to the other news, but I did finally get my pictures from the karate tournament downloaded.
First, the good one of me with my ever so fancy trophy. Please feel free to ooh and aah. You know you wish you had one in your living room. Do click to enlarge so you can [...]

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Congratulations, Zack!

I’m a little bit late, but my brother still deserves congratulations on his college graduation, back on December 15. His major was Parks & Recreation Management, so I like to envision him doing things like he is in this picture all the time from now on. He took us on a very awesome hike when [...]

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Ridgewood Art

The small shopping center very close to my parents’ house (and not very far from where I live as well) is called Ridgewood. It contains a Whole Foods, a wine store, a yarn store, a bike store, and our favorite independent bookstore, Quail Ridge Books, amongst other things. It also has an art gallery. On [...]

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Cup A Joe’s

Across the street from the Ballet Bulldozer, next door to one of the long-standing used bookstores on Hillsborough St., is my family’s favorite local coffee place, Cup A Joe. My parents have started going there every Saturday morning (my mom gets chai), and the main barrista already knows their orders, and mine when I go [...]

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The Ballet Bulldozer

When I was in elementary school, I took ballet. Our ballet studio was in a building on Hillsborough Street, a main drag in Raleigh that runs along the front of NC State’s campus, as well as past the state fairgrounds. It’s a very long street. In the area past the campus but still in the very [...]

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Rose Garden In Bloom

Just over a week ago, my friend Kevin came into town, ostensibly to help Mark unload all his stuff, but he came earlier in the week to see the area. Because I’ve been playing hostess and trying to encourage my friends to move here, I’ve been thinking about all the things I like about my hometown. So [...]

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