it's cool....you can see the camera. 

ryan. 

It's official....I'm moving to Athens, GA for a year.  

this is what the casio exilim z-40 will do to a perfectly normal picture....jack it up. however, i kinda like the weird quality of this pic....artsy. 

one of my wonderful students, Madeline. 

Some of my students, post-recital. 

more students. 

this dog looks like an ewok, dead-on. 

out on a walk with coco (i still want to call him harvey). 

hold still!!!! 

Sunset over Lake of the Isles. 

Flint Hills Internat'l Children's Festival

spent a few days volunteering at this festival sponsored by the Ordway Center. art, music, dance, good stuff. got to sneak into the performances!

One of the art displays at the festival. 

part of the festival... 

this woman was one of the MASS ensemble people....she's playing an earth harp, one of the world's largest (the bridge of the harp is the metal/wood thing behind her). The strings, 500 ft long, stretched all the way across Landmark Plaza in St. Paul up to the bell tower of the Landmark Center. It was really cool---unique sound, esp. combined with the rest of the band. 

the performers, letting the audience try to play. 

me after my photographer asked me to look like i was enjoying myself. hence, the stupid expression. that's the earth harp i'm trying to play. 

Pre-parade madness. I helped out with the ArtMoves! parade for the festival.....kids/organizations from all over the cities decorated scores of bikes, wagons, etc. for the parade.  

the front of the parade. i liked the stilt walkers....they were called "chicks on sticks." 

one of the parade dogs. there was also a green one, blue one..... 

ladies drummin'.... 

one of my favorite parts of the parade.... 

This will forever remind me of St. Paul and Minnesota. Love the Twin Cities. 

June pictures.

i love flowers. 

me w/little elia on her last night in the u.s. (parents frantically packing during this pic) 

at fernanda and andrei's goodbye party. a friend of their's threw a big bbq bash for them before they left for romania. :(