Tag: photos
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Derby week 2017
Before I get into this, I have to admit we Louisville folks get tunnel vision when it comes to Derby and it’s hard to wrap our minds around the fact that the rest of the country doesn’t *really* care about the festivities. Derby absolutely consumes us – it’s “the most wonderful time of the year…in Louisville.” I actually…
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Kentucky Derby Festival Balloon Glimmer
Things usually go quiet on the blog when I’m feeling super busy; the more I have to write about, the less chances I have to actually sit down and write. Part of that is my complete inability to set a schedule for myself, but now that I’m working from home (photography, editing, managing my shop)…
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Goodbye Sweet East Nashville Home
Gather ’round and let me tell you a tale of house hunting in East Nashville in 2011. Back then, the only houses in our very very tight budget were in East Nashville. Our superb realtor Marcie Nash showed us houses all over town, but saved the best one for last: the house that eventually became our sweet first home in South…
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Louisville St. Patrick’s Parade
Back in March 2008 when Javier and I had only been dating about a month we took a trip from Nashville to Louisville so he could meet my high school friends at the St. Patty’s Parade. Back then the parade was an excuse to go bar hopping on Bardstown Road during the day dressed in weird…
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January and Minimalism (the documentary)
I’m so happy right now – January is my jam. I am a little bummed that the holidays are over and I hated taking down my Christmas decorations, but I love the subdued quiet and tabula rasa that January offers. The fact that it’s “snowing” (Louisville standards) right now adds to the mood, even though I don’t have any…
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Last week in Chile
We’re back home in Louisville now, but I am only just getting the photos downloaded from our last days in Chile. I have some beautiful photos from Santa Rita vineyard, a couple of shots from another grill out we had to celebrate Colo Colo’s decisive win in a tournament final, and another 3,000 (or so) shots…
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Heat Wave
It’s hot in Santiago. It’s too hot to write, too hot to move, too hot to cook, too hot to take photos, too hot to leave the house, too hot for much of anything. Javi caught a 24-hour bug a couple of days ago, so we’ve been taking it easy here. The heat makes it…
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Return to Chile 2016
We are back in Santiago with Javier’s family! The last time we were here was in 2014 for Macarena and Alex’s wedding, and Paula had just found out she was pregnant. It’s been two years and little Ignacia Paz, our “new” niece, is already so grown up! We’ve been communicating with her as best we can…
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Shop Buena Buena
This is another topic I’ve been meaning to post about for quite a long time. I mentioned back in June that Javi and I had picked up a bunch of things from Goodwill to make our house more comfortable, including that awesome corner cabinet for our china. I also mentioned that I’d come back to…
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McClure Fall
It’s family photo time again! I have several shoots lined up over Thanksgiving weekend in Louisville and Nashville, but nothing beats spending the afternoon taking photos of my niece and nephew. I could not get them to smile at the same time for the life of me…hats off to Ian and Andi who smiled the whole…
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On Hashtags and VSCO
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time, and when I gave the blog a facelift I was finally able to make some of the VSCO hashtags I’m going to talk about easily searchable. I’m getting ahead of myself though – let me first describe these hashtag thangs to folks who don’t know why…
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Friendsgiving 2016
It may still feel like summer down south (it was 80 degrees in Louisville on Friday – but no, there’s no such thing as climate change…[eyeroll that shook the earth]) but late November is here and it’s time to stuff our faces in the name of giving thanks! Humming House is en route home after…
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MccRodLife
This time last year, I lived an 8-hour drive away from my brother, sister-in-law, and niece and nephew. I got to see them a couple of times a year for few days – usually when Humming House was in Chicago, on Thanksgiving, and maybe Christmas or a summer trip to Nashville. When we moved to Louisville,…
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DLG in Hilton Head
July was a damn good month. I got home from a little over 3 weeks on tour at the end of June ready to soak up some quality time at home with the fellas. After a few nice recovery days (it feels like it takes that long to recalibrate to being in one place…unpacking, doing laundry,…
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Dolphins in Redondo
Some days on tour are completely lousy with an early start, a 10-hr drive and a late show (or even worse there’s no show, just a day of driving to get you closer to the next destination). Most days have the normal ups and downs; moderately long drives, cool cities but no real opportunity to enjoy…
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More Odds & Some Ends
Beyond the wood floors, we’ve been adding other small details here and there to the house that have certainly made it a warmer, more inviting space. My favorite additions are the gorgeous curtains my mom sewed for our living room and kitchen windows. Our local Hancock’s Fabric Store is going out of business, but before…
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2015 begins (a late recap)
Some months are better than others for blogging. We had an entire week snowed in and even with all that time at home on my hands I still didn’t write anything out. I would just start with the immediate goings-on in our lives but I have so many beautiful photos worth sharing from the past…
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Maca & Alex – MARRIED!
All of the posts from Chile have been leading up to this: Maca and Alex’s wedding day! In the last post we explained that we woke up early on their wedding day to make those centerpieces, and we didn’t go back to bed until almost 24 hours later. Chileans don’t just throw a reception for a…
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5 years as a Rodriguez
Last month, well before our 5-year anniversary date, Javier told me (with that “I’ve got a plan” gleam in his eye) that he had an idea for my anniversary present. For the next week or so, I wasn’t allowed to check our amazon account to see what orders had been made, and one by one…
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Finer things
I’m feeling a little low after a defeating evening watching the election results roll in, so I’m going to focus on the happier things going on in the Los Rodriguez Life. This past weekend we celebrated our good friends Eric and Megan at their beautiful wedding! I’ve known Eric since my freshman year in college.…
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