sometimes the best thing you can tell correct exposure to do is…


to f*ck right off.*

I have just returned from a life-altering week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Forgive me if it takes me some time to sort through these ~ some of my most favorite ~ images of all time.

I am currently in the throes of deciding so many things… how best to share these images is a minor one… I am also concepting a MOST exciting new cookbook project… preparing to usher my boy off to a new life in college… soon to transition to a new home who-knows-where… San Miguel, perhaps?

An exciting, sure-to-be-bumpy, lucky, transformative and blessed ride I have ahead… call me grateful and exhilarated.

*(and stop worrying so much about how to set your camera properly – go ahead and shoot, baby, S H O O T .)

now I just walk, but I don’t mind the rain


singing so much softer than I did back then.

I wish you the happiest of happy new years!


may good health be your faithful companion,
peace your guarded ally,
love your perpetual guide
and may your 2012 be full of unexpected wonder.

love,
leslie

for you, for us, forever.

silent grace
effortless kindness
utter joy
borderless peace
deep true wide everlasting
l o v e.

two thousand and twelve.

It’s been a year since this blog started… an entire year. Wow. It means so much to me that you stop by to view my work and to say hello. It also means that it’s time to announce my new 2012 calendar

I continue to be happy with the quality of Zazzle.com so I have used them once again. One change… I found that the smaller sizes did not sell as well and that too many purchase options tended to confuse the ordering process. I have decided that big and bold is the only option this year.

Double entendre intended, friends…
~ Big and bold is the only option this Year ~
My new mantra.

The calendar:
$28.00 + shipping for the 14¼”x22″
These measurements are for the full calendar hanging open. Image on the upper half, calendar page on the lower as shown here:

CLICK HERE to purchase and as always, I would be forever grateful if you would share the love and spread the word.
You do have to set up a login with Zazzle to purchase but it is easy and straight forward – please let me know if you run into any snags and I’ll be happy to help.
NOTE: Be SURE to check the Zazzle site for discounts on calendars before purchasing! They’ve been known to do two-for-one’s, $$$ off, etcetera :)

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I intend to live this next year fully
in the present
deep
wide
open
honest
true

with tremendous love
and I wish the very same for each one of you.
Calendar or no calendar.

Love,
Leslie

everywhere.


I took this at a gas station just before driving out of Vancouver last week.
I believe that goes a long way towards proving my theory that beauty is everywhere.
May your holiday week be filled with love, beauty, and thankfulness.

just another sunset.






seven different ways ~ taken within a one hour time span ~ from ocean beach.

One third of the crop was culled to:


1) strengthen the keepers
2) make juice
3) make saba which I had never even heard of before this day but then I tasted it and now I might have a problem.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life…

… impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

~ Charles Caleb Colton