sometimes

Sometimes I like to ask strangers
 if I can photograph  their style.

Woman in front of shopping center.

Woman in restaurant. 

Cute skirt & bracelets of woman at family gathering, after funeral.

Here's her whole outfit.  :)

Sometimes I photograph the style details of a friend.

My friend's pretty butterfly brooch.

My friend's peacock bracelet.

My friend's purse.

My friend Kimmie's whole outfit.

Sometimes I like to take photos
of cute decorations, I see in a store.

This was before Valentine's Day.

A close up of the balloons.

A close up of the flowers hanging upside down.

Sometimes I like to show the world
 how cute my nieces are. 

My niece lil bug likes apples.

This is my niece lil bug posing.

This is her twin sister, my niece EJ.
She's looking at herself, in the mirror.

I handed EJ the yellow pick.
She immediately knew to comb her hair with it.

EJ was squealing "Baby."
At the baby in the mirror.
I don't know if she knew the baby was her.

Sometimes Michael Franti is good for my soul.
"Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything and
Sometimes, I'm so alive, so alive
Sometimes, I feel like I can zoom 'cross the sky and
Sometimes, I wanna cry
Sometimes, yeah love never stop now
Sometimes, my love will never stop now
Sometimes, yeah love never stop now
Sometimes, my love will always shine"...

...Peace to the people who be losin' their head
Peace to the people who be needin' a bed
Love to the people who be feelin' alone
Spreadin' love upon the microphone
Hope to the people who be feelin' down
Smile to the people who be wearin' a frown
Faith to the people who be seekin' the truth y'all
All of the time and I say "...Sometimes by Michael Franti

swimming w los delfines

I have wanted to do this since my cousin died. 

I can't find a picture of my cousin swimming with the dolphins.
The Pacific was her favorite ocean.

I'm looking cheesy on the left.
My friend Kimmie, is on the right.

This is Kimmie.

Kimmie is on the left.
I'm on the right.

This was something to cross of my life list,
and worth every peso or penny.

I'm wearing the sunglasses.

I'm on the left, (with my swimming suit strap falling down),
Kimmie's on the right.

I can't remember this little girl's name.

I'm clapping my hands, on the far right.

We are doing some kind of hand signal,
with the dolphins, here.

I met some really cool people too,
like our cab driver, who I'll talk more about, sometime later.

In the background, the dolphin guy,
 (wearing the hat), is trying to explain something to me).

The dolphin guy, once lived in Irving, Texas,
and has a dolphin tattooed on his upper left arm.
 Dolphin guy #2 who was sick.

 A grandma watched her grandson.
He was super excited before our adventure,
but less so, after he got salt water in his eyes.
The grandson is wearing the goggles. 

When Kimmie asked me, what my favorite thing about the dolphins was,
 I said,
"meeting and talking to the people."

Kimmie

 She said,

"About the dolphins, Teddi, the dolphins!
You know the swimming where they pulled us,
the singing & making them dance,
when they flipped over us,
or kissing or touching them?"

I would be the palest, skin like a ghost, redhead.

Well meeting the people was my favorite thing! :p

This Mexican family who knew no English,
but I somehow managed to communicate with.

The madre, (mom) took our pictures, and I emailed all the ones of her girls,
 to her daughter. 

Yes, it was a good time!  :)