Day 115

A little dark, but I liked the framing.

Day 114

Chuck likes the lights, too.

Day 113

Cut-outs.

Caught up.

Day 112

Legions of tiny stars.

Day 111

I made hundreds of biscochitos. This was the second sheet of dough of I think five. That's what I get for using a teeny-tiny cookie cutter, I guess, but the small ones taste better - perfect ratio of cinnamon-sugar to cookie!

Day 110

I think Taylor is nonplussed.

Day 109

Playing with perspective and a total lack of light.

Those are boots, in case you couldn't tell.

Day 108

Biscochitos in progress. Please forgive the lighting, it was very late.

Day 107

Friday night festivities.

Finals are over. We return now to our regularly scheduled one-photo-per-day, after a(nother) brief period of playing catch-up.

Day 106

Sleepy kitty love is the best kind.

Day 105

Our kitties have a thing for boxes. They have been fighting over this one all night.

Guess who won?

Day 104

Today is the first of December, so I have officially started playing Christmas music, putting up decorations and baking biscochitos. At least I have the decency to wait until November is actually over (doing these things the day after Thanksgiving is just tacky, really).

Kate Rusby's Christmas album is pretty great, by the way.

And after umpteen Christmases doing retail, you would think that I would have had this beaten out of me by now, but I've never really gotten over the whole lights-tree-presents thing.

Day 103

Lazy, mediocre cat photo, 'cause it's time for me to go to bed!

Day 102

So, I took a look at Chuck a couple of days ago, and was shocked to find that the whiskers on the left side of his face appear to have been cut (like, snipped, with a pair of scissors) about halfway down the whisker, leaving him with these odd bristles.

Matt and I have been trying to figure out what happened. He does have a tendency to poke his nose places it doesn't belong, but we don't think any of those places have edges sharp enough to cut his whiskers, nor do they appear to have been singed, which is something that Taylor has done before, sticking her eyebrows into lit candles.

All in all, a mystery. I hope they grow back soon. Until they do, however, I will refer to Chuck as "Half-Face."

Day 101

Wild rosemary + leaves.

I am officially caught up!

We now return to our regularly scheduled one photo per day.

Day 100

Sidewalk.

Day 99

Leaves!

Day 98

Mosses!

Day 97

Thanksgiving breakfast: pumpkin waffles with amaretto-sauteed apples and bacon, coffee for Matt, tea for me.

And yes, I know this was yesterday. I am still playing catch up.

Day 96

Leaves, on my way to work this morning.

Ohmigodican'twaitforthequartertobeover!

Day 95

This monster called school+lack of sleep swallowed my brain at some point on Sunday, and ate the fact that I have a blog.

Excuses, excuses, I know. Suffice to say, it's been a hell of a week. I will be posting two pictures a day until I'm caught up.

Day 94

Taylor washes, Matt works.

Day 93

Brr!

Day 92

Please forgive the lighting and my tardiness - I have spent the last four hours (straight, with several more before that) reading research articles, which does tend to turn one's brain upside down, no matter how interesting the content.

This is Chuck's new favourite hang-out, by the way. Under my desk chair. Why not?

Day 91

I should really call this "Shannon's Tree and Cat Blog," shouldn't I?

Day 90

Bedtime.

Day 89

Taylor will someday rule the universe. She might already, as a matter of fact, and we just haven't figured it out yet.

Day 88

A slightly more seasonally appropriate picture than the last one.

One of the kitchen lights was out when I got home, so instead of finding a new lightbulb and replacing it, I found some candles and lit those instead. I am nothing if not practical.

Day 87

So, as you may have noticed, I didn't post yesterday. The last couple of days have gone something like this: Friday night, I stayed up until not-quite-three in the morning completing a truly terrible rough draft of a paper that has been hanging over my head far too long. So, Saturday morning I got up, went to work, had a day so busy you would have thought that we were mere days from Christmas, rather than almost six weeks, came home to work on a presentation for another class and entirely forgot not only about my blog, but I think that blogs even exist, or that I have a camera which I'm supposed to use everyday.

Oops.

So, two pictures today. This is the picture I should have taken yesterday, of this INSANE honeysuckle vine that seems to find blooming shortly before Thanksgiving appropriate behaviour. That's all I have to say about that plant.

Day 86

Chuck kept batting at the camera tonight.

P.S. I know this is super-late, but I've been working on a paper for the last five hours. They were a painful five hours.

Day 85

Dinner out.

Day 84

Matt.

The lighting looks space-age-ier in photograph than it does in real life. Odd.

Day 83

Matt totally stole this from me.

That said, he also reminded me that I have a blog, so all's fair... or something.

Day 82

A veritable sea of leaves?

A red sea, perhaps?

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)

Day 81

We are entering the desolate stage of the year.

Day 80

Cute, spiky little mosses!

Day 79

Maple leaves on my way to work.

David Bazan=awesome, despite the fact that for some reason, he seems to have an inordinate number of Very Tall Fans.

Day 78

My photo options tonight were poorly-lit cat or poorly-lit fridge.

I went with the slightly belated Oaxacan Day of the Dead magnets.

Day 77

Thank god Matt remembered I had a blog, or I would have forgotten it for two days. I took this between breakfast at Ken's with Matt and work this morning. I like this building and its fire escapes.

Day 76

So, I remembered to take a picture yesterday - a rather poorly-framed shot of lamplit (yes, lamplit) yellow leaves while rushing across campus just after sunset - but by the time I got home, I had totally forgotten that I have a blog to which I am supposed to post these photos.

Yesterday was a Very Long Day.

Day 75

Afternoon treat from Cupcake Jones: pumpkin-chocolate chip cupcake, chocolate ganache filling, cinnamon buttercream and chocolate drizzle.

I am such a sucker for pumpkin things right now.

Day 74

All of the trees on 23rd have lights on them now. They are really very pretty - I'm afraid this doesn't quite do them justice. I'll keep working on it.

Day 73

A belated Halloween kitty for your viewing pleasure.

Day 72

Breakfast: tea, bran muffin, Seckle pear.

Day 71

I love these narrow little houses.

Also, this was the only picture in which you couldn't see the edge of my umbrella - guess I need to work on framing.

Day 70

Tiger.

I am suffering from photo malaise, brought on in part, I think, but the lack of daylight. Yay Portland!

Day 69

Morning classes make for good light - view of trees, library and construction from the third floor of Neuberger Hall.

Day 68

This is what I affectionately like to term "controlled chaos." Emphasis on chaos.

This blog is to document a year of my life in pictures - well, this is life, at the moment.

Day 67

Another cat+Matt moment. So much for daylight...

Day 66

Chuck is entering Midnight Hellion Mode.

I'm going to try to take a picture during daylight hours tomorrow, promise.