Instagram - Instant, Connecting, Creative & Invasive
I've recently discovered Instagram and was inspired to do the photo-a-day challenge thanks to one of my dance mom friends. It's really quite easy and I'm quite happy at how artsy my images are turning out. I guess I will try to upload them continually to this post throughout the month. Here's what I've done so far.
http://instagram.com/p/SuF7_AIyDE/
DAY 1 - My view today. Painting with little dancers. :)
http://instagram.com/p/Sx2g6foyAU/
DAY 2 - My favorite holiday movie
http://instagram.com/p/Sx3Pw8oyAw/
DAY 3 - Red. At South of the Border
http://instagram.com/p/S1eIKToyD1/
DAY 4 - Joyous. The 10 of cups embodies that word.
http://instagram.com/p/S3-L2KoyBw/
DAY 5 - Today's Temperature. From my car's dashboard in sunny Florida.
http://instagram.com/p/S6XRmiIyKh/
DAY 6 - Shopping. Anthropolgie. One of my favorite stores.
http://instagram.com/p/S89MdRoyJN/
DAY 7 - Bright. My neighbor's palm tree. It gets decorated every year and just gets brighter and brighter!
http://instagram.com/p/TAAl9XIyCj/
DAY 8 - Ornaments. Although we haven't gotten the tree up yet, the ornaments are down from the attic. So I just snapped one of the prettier ones.
http://instagram.com/p/TCizZHoyGx/
DAY 9 - What I'm reading. Cloud Atlas.
http://instagram.com/p/TE0z9TIyFZ/
DAY 10 - Wrapping paper. Busy day. Uninspired....
http://instagram.com/p/TJDOoJIyOb/
DAY 11 - Green. My beautiful butterfly plants after an overnight rain.
http://instagram.com/p/TJES-jIyPG/
DAY 12 - A Beautiful sight. My daughter dancing.
http://instagram.com/p/TLmmq-IyAy/
DAY 13 - Family.
http://instagram.com/p/TPMd9_IyG9/
DAY 14 - Christmas Tree. No Christmas tree at our house yet, it's the one from the sushi resturant.
http://instagram.com/p/TSEzZToyH2/
DAY 15 - Favorite Christmas Song.
http://instagram.com/p/TUgPhBIyAp/
DAY 16 - Outside Christmas lights.
http://instagram.com/p/TW1XWNoyJS/
DAY 17 - Presents. My grey cat Sivee is the best present!
http://instagram.com/p/TdyP0CoyFA/
DAY 18 - Stockings
http://instagram.com/p/TdxKi2oyEB/
DAY 19 - Candy Cane.
http://instagram.com/p/Tyc7HHIyI0/
DAY 20 - Tree Topper.
http://instagram.com/p/TzxMtVIyJL/
DAY 21 - Peace
http://instagram.com/p/TmJNPcoyC-/
DAY 22 - Tradition. Christmas Cookies, A Herbert tradition.
http://instagram.com/p/TyeDhYIyJw/
DAY 23 - Scarf. It doesn't get very cold in Florida. This was kind of tough.
http://instagram.com/p/TzyHENIyKK/
DAY 24 - Favorite Part of Christmas Eve. Midnight Mass.
http://instagram.com/p/TxG0PjoyM7/
DAY 25 - Morning. My grey cat Sivee is the best present!
http://instagram.com/p/T4MlY9IyOH/
DAY 26 - Grateful. Want to be more so in 2013.
http://instagram.com/p/Tw9aPmIyBK/
DAY 27 - Night Time
http://instagram.com/p/Tzvt7MoyHr/
DAY 28 - Words. From a book of Russian legends.
http://instagram.com/p/T1ZKkWoyLF/
DAY 29 - Sky View. Shot at the entrance to our neighborhood.
http://instagram.com/p/T4Lv4QoyNW/
DAY 30 - Your Winter Wonderland. My childhood winter wonderland, circa 1971. Yikes! So long a go now!
http://instagram.com/p/T69ZkAoyIx/
DAY 31 - Fun! Christmas Eve with my designer friend/client KC Malhan. Check out their website! www.kcmalhan.com
The other really cool thing I love about Instragram is being able to see celebrities view of the world through their Instagram posts. My current favorite is @bigbaldhead or Norman Reedus or Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead. Here are some of his latest posts.
http://instagram.com/p/SwUd40McMv/
http://instagram.com/p/S1jY29scDL/
http://instagram.com/p/SoHXBsMcC1/
Hurricanes!
I married a Floridian and have lived 25+ in Florida, so I guess I can consider myself one too. As such, I think TS Issac will just bring Central Florida some rain and if it stays in South Florida, blue skies and a balmy wind to the Orlando area. That's what Hurricane Andrew was for Central Florida. My friends in South Florida were not so lucky.
But the impending visitation of TS/ Hurricane Issac upon us, I can't help but think of the year 2004. That year we endured 4 hurricanes. The worst of those being Hurricane Charlie, my friend Shellie was trapped in her downtown Orlando neighborhood for a week, without power and with downed trees blocking the entrance in and out of their street. Shellie said it was on of the worst thing she ever experienced. I hope she will post a comment or two to this, she has a wicked sense of humor and is a good writer herself!
Most of my friends were without power for 1 week or more. Our Apopka neighborhood was lucky. My father in-law says, "We live in a holler." During all 4 hurricanes that year we never really lost power except for Frances, where we lost power for a day. We were pretty lucky.
For the most part Central Floridians don't really worry about impeding hurricanes. The storms usually lose their punch by the time they reach Orlando. For many it's an excuse for BBQ and a hurricane party. Some locals do panic and there's grocery store and Home Depot buying mayhem. Everyone does lots of local news viewing until the power goes out. The good thing about these storms is that friends and family get together and we get to know and help our neighbors. We realize that most people have good/big hearts and just want to help in a bad situation.
If the course of the storm looks like it's coming my way, I'll keep you updated as best as possible!
Here's Tony website. http://www.tonymendozaart.com He is a great artist, whom I had the pleasure to get to know during my Florida and Garden Festival stint at Epcot, 2005. Good luck to Tony and my other South Florida friends! Keep us posted!