iPhone photo… The sunsets here are incredible.

iPhone photo. It was an extremely wet day in Catania.

This picture is absolutely not posted for its technical merit (note… capturing extremely bright lava exploding out of a pitch black mountain is a tricky balancing act. I’ll have to work on that one!) but it does illustrate the immense size of the explosion of lava that we witnessed on Thanksgiving night. If you compare

I don’t think we could have had a more perfect first trip off of base, here in Sicily. A group of military members and families caravanned out to a family farm near Mineo and we all enjoyed picking olives from old (some over 1,000 years old!) olive trees, a filling and tasty home cooked Sicilian

Towns lining the base of Mt. Etna.

About to touch down in Sicily.

And it has gone by entirely too fast. I love this stage… the sporadic little giggles, obsession with feet and general smiley-ness completely steals my heart each time a baby of mine reaches this age. So darn cute.

The last of our household goods were packed into crates and loaded onto trucks, today. After a final cleaning, we said goodbye to our home of 3 and 1/2 years. Many good memories have been made in that house, but as a military family, we have learned to hold the past in our hearts, but

I bought a bundle of flowers at Trader Joes with my only purpose for them being an incentive to pull out my macro lens for some therapy. I love working to convey mood with inanimate objects, while calming and centering myself at the same time.