let’s be honest here, i am a lover of livestock.  my husband will attest to this fact, as i make him pull over whenever (and wherever) we are driving so that i can photograph them up close and, if  i’m lucky, i get to pet them, too.  i’m certain it drives him crazy,  but i have made so many wonderful furry friends on our trip so far.

jw and i went to a wedding in los angeles this weekend where the temperature was in the HUNDREDS.  it was really quite unbearable (unless, of course, you were bare . . . which only a few of us were allowed to be).   unfortunately, i was wearing a light wool dress, because we didn’t read the fine print to know that it was an outdoors event, nor were we really expecting it to be 105 degrees.

luckily, there was a swimming pool, and though i was so very tempted to dive in, wading in up to my thighs was sheer heaven.