Blog Hop Friday! On your marks! Get set! Go! How wonderful to set aside a day to explore. Read, visit, read, visit, hop, hop, hop. How marvelous. I have found brilliant blogs, luminous writers, rigorous readers, insightful reviewers and around every corner, generous, generous people waiting with well tempered, gentle honesty and open minded conviction. It is a rare and wonderful thing.
And yet, this week has been a bit of a runaway coach and six. I have a student graduating--and I am champagne fizz proud of him, a student accepted to a wonderful private high school and I am bunches of balloons in bloom proud of her, a student reading Matilda with grace, ease and fierce concentration and I am seven swans a swimmin' proud of her (we are studying alliteration--can you tell?) and friends about to send their manuscript off to agents and I am delighted and have been editing their feather light, shot with sunlight words--and now I am exhausted. I feel a bit like a dog that has been chasing a theoretical tail only to find out that she is a polar bear.
And, my gracious, glorious friends have created another set of author's photos. I love the green church door photo but when you crop it it looks as if I am seasick and at sea. And so now instead we have... pink. My angelic, gifted friend Naomi took the photos (just before she whacked the head of a centipede with a nasty looking garden tool while still nursing her baby--seriously impressive stuff) and my dear, patient, genius friend Matt fancied em up and sent them out. Naomi made me laugh a genuine big laugh and then took the picture. Matt and I giggled, and giggled and ate salt water taffy while we looked at them. They were happy moments and now we have happy photos.
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The photos are beautiful. Perhaps you should be modelling as well as writing.
ReplyDeletethat is so sweet but my poor friends who took the zillions of photos we needed to get a few good ones would not agree with you! they really want me to stick to writing! but thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt's very evident you were in good company while taking these. Your easy relationship shines through in your expression.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
caroline starr rose, i tried it with people i did not know and just looked in pain or angry! i am so lucky some of my best friends are photographers! my friend took them outside her house, with her husband (who i also grew up with) sitting with us making sure things did not blow away and wearing a shirt over his face so he would not make me laugh or be nervous!
ReplyDeleteHi Priya! Happy Friday! Those are great photos. I love the second one especially. Love the rings you're wearing! :)
ReplyDeletehi leanna, thank you! they are all from my mom and i wear them for good luck! thank you! have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteHey Priya! :-) Those are seriously lovely photos! Sorry, I've been lurking on your blog lately, keeping up to date but always never having time to leave meaningful comments, so here I am! :-)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all thank you so much for passingthat award on to me, I feel truly honoured! Thank you!
Secondly, the moment I saw the green-steps-photo of you I loved it! It is such a relaxed photo of you, it is obvious you are a kind and easygoing friendly person. I didn't know it was a church door (how great is that churches there have such colourful doors!) but I loved its colourful settings and the shading! So soothing and peaceful.
But these pink photos, wow! It shows a different side of you, these are elegant, sophisticated and very feminine. I especially love the 2nd pink one, it really shows you have a genuine smile! Please go with that one for your author photo it is lovely! :-)
Ok, now I'll stop, see how I can ramble on? lol
Have a great weekend and hope to see you around!
:-) Stella
Gorgeous photos! :)
ReplyDeleteLet's do the Hop!
My Hop is here.
xx,
E.J.
Oh my, they're all beautiful! I don't know if I could pick a favorite. Have a fantastic weekend :)
ReplyDeleteHappy, hoppy Friday, Priya. I love the new photos; my favorite is the one on the left, that looks like a real laugh! Hope you have a great day.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos! Such a perfectly genuine smile! And congratulations to your students ~ and kudos to you for being a marvelous teacher I'm sure! Have a fantastic book bloggy weekend!
ReplyDeletestella, thank you for lurking and for writing! isn't it that door great? it is a very old somewhat ramshackle church in hanalei, a tiny town down the road by the sea. we were going to go to the old white church right next door but there was a giant group hula lesson in progress so we sat on these steps. i think the publishers are going to use it for online stuff so that day is not lost.
ReplyDeleteglad you like the pink ones. thanks for picking a favorite--it helps!
e.j. stevens, thank you!
whitney, thank you! i love your elizabeth bennet photo by the way! jennifer ehle just looked like my idea of elizabeth. have a wonderful weekend too!
bibliophiliac, happy hoppy friday to you as well! so glad you like that one. it really helps. i was worried it would look too silly/stagey/maybelline commercially. have a lovely lovely day. is this week coming up you last week of school?
stacy, your comment just magically popped up out of nowhere! thank you! and thank you on behalf of my sweetly studying students!
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures! You look so genuine!
ReplyDeletethank you kate! that is what i wanted! they are choosing which one to use now. have a super weekend!
ReplyDeleteWell aren't you just the cutest, perkiest thing! I really enjoyed these photos. Thanks for sharing and brightening all of our day!
ReplyDeleteHey there - just hopping by on the blog hop! Stop by The Wormhole
ReplyDeleteYou are truly blessed with friends such as these!
Your photos are beautiful!!!
ReplyDeletepriya! also LOVELY! my personal favorite is the close-up... so natural, so candid, and so priya! :) you have wonderful photographer friends!!
ReplyDeletealso thank you for blog hopping. it always gives me new places to go!
Salt water taffy? Not something I've ever heard of let alone tried, it sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteI love the new photographs.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos Priya! They're beautiful, I love the pink!
ReplyDeleteAlso congrats on your student graduating!
Never tried salt water taffy, always wanted to though!
Hope you're having a great weekend!
STUNNING, GORGEOUS pictures! So natural and lovely and beautiful. And how do you manage and find the time to comment on all the comments?!?!?! Please tell me your secret, do days have more hours where you live? I feel so rude that I don't do it, but really simply cannot find the time... Love from London x
ReplyDeletejune, thank you! how soon do you leave for your trip?
ReplyDeletebeverly, i will definitely stop by the wormhole!
michelle, you are so sweet! i hope you had a lovely weekend!
petty witter and beth, never tried salt water taffy? no! it is salty, summery, and is all the colours of spring easter eggs. they each arrive in their own twisted wax paper and they are deadly for tooth fillings. i am addicted!
mademoiselle poirot, you are such a sweetie! did it warm up in london? xx
lindy lou mac, i am so glad you like them!
ReplyDeleteI like the genuine big laugh!! Although I do liked the other one too. Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteI'm so going to have to track down some! You make them sound so tempting!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have an award for you here!
hiya Priya! I have an award for you at my blog!
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Congrats to you and your student, Priya, on a job well done! It is so very satisfying releasing your little Pings on to the great waiting river knowing they shall swim far and wide.
ReplyDeleteTell us more about this saltwater taffy of which you speak... I am completely intrigued.
And okay, you really could be a model as well as a writer. These photos are so different to the other with the great door, but perhaps even more stunning. I can't see how you can go wrong with the combination of vivacity, brains and beauty. They'll be mad for you, darling, just you wait!
I just love reading your posts! So refreshing - wonderful photos of a stunning woman! :)
ReplyDeletebeth, you must! delicious--like sugary mellon summer light but terrible for cavities--must give them up!
ReplyDeletestacy--thank you!
book quoter--you are so sweet! thank you!
doctordi--salt water taffy--chewy, carnival coloured, sugary, delightful--so good! but not cavity/filling friendly--beware! you said such lovely genuine things i do not even know how to respond. you made my day.
mari--have i told you how much i love the boots in your profile photo? they look victorian--lovely!