Essie and I wish everyone a Happy Independence Day!
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Essie and I wish everyone a Happy Independence Day!
My first full day in wintertime Charlevoix. Woke with no agenda, here's a photo essay (provided by my iPhone) of the day. Tomorrow is a new day and with it comes new adventures.
Do you ever feel like that? Not that you're being held prisoner in a nursing home by a crazily mustached Ben Stiller, but simply that desperation of GET ME OUTTA HERE! I feel that at least twice a month. Ask my friends, my mom, my sisters... I frequently throw up my hands and announce, "I [...]
It's been a couple of very busy weeks, my apologies for sparse posts. My sister, Lizzy, keeps pestering me to post something new, "Jenn, you went whale watching weeks ago!" I am currently about an hour into a 5 hour layover at Tucson Airport with the current issue of National Geographic Traveler, my niece and [...]
I've been in Charlevoix, MI since Monday. My family has had property up here since my mom was little and I have countless memories of rolling down the hill with my cousin, breakfast picnics at Depot Beach, running with the dogs on the bluff and, of course, hundreds and hundreds of hours on the water. [...]
Mine gave me peonies. Shot with my iPhone
I spent the afternoon with the dogs and my iPhone in my parents' backyard. Record high today in Chicago, I can't believe it's only March!
I love my iPhone - as an artist, a business owner and a traveler, it's the perfect accessory and I don't know what I did without it. With that said, the whole Instagram generation of photographers kind of cracks me up. "Here's a cup of coffee. It's cooler than yours because I cropped it to [...]