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Before the rain returned, we got a chance to hit up downtown Willow Springs yesterday. Being a poor rural town, there are lots of old decrepit buildings, crumbling houses and barns. We walked down Main Street which is lined with two-story brick buildings, most of which are empty, a few scary restaurants and a pleasant little park that was filled with dogwood trees. The buildings were painted with murals and advertisements about a million and a half years ago so it made for good picture takin’.
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With the nasty weather behind us, we’ve been able to make it out of the house a little bit over the past week. We managed to make a pit stop in a cute little town named Houston, about 30 miles north of where we live, yesterday. We got the chance to roam around downtown for a short time, but only to hit up the famous Forbes Pharmacy Soda Fountain. It was a little odd to find this cute little ice cream parlor in the back of a large pharmacy but it made up for it with it’s old fashioned charm and yummy desserts.
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The weather finally cleared up over the weekend so we decided to hit up the Bakersville Heritage Day Festival in south central Missouri. After about an hour’s drive, we finally arrived to find the festival hidden back in a very rural area by way of a very narrow gravel road. The surrounding area was gorgeous, filled with green pastures, rolling hills, and trickling streams.
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Ever since we moved out to California, we’ve been in love with Northern Cali, particularly the area around Mendocino and Point Arena. Our ultimate goal is to end up there with a little piece of land close to the Pacific. But for now, we’ll just have to keep dreaming unfortunately. I hope y’all enjoy these shots as much as I do…
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Before we moved to San Francisco, my husband and I lived further south along the peninsula. Whenever we got the chance, we would make our way up to the city for the day just to do some exploring. Being from South Texas, we saw San Francisco as the coolest place on Earth. There are huge trees everywhere, steep hills with houses on their sides, and beautiful beaches.

I don’t know how many of you have been to South Texas but the trees are anything but huge (puny if you ask me), people don’t put their houses on the sides of cliffs because they value their lives, and the beaches in Texas are disgusting (you can see giant oil rigs from shore, for God’s sake).

That being said, I thought I’d share some old shots of the city that I took before we lived here. I had recently acquired my first digital 2 MP Canon point-and-shoot when I took these so they’re not the best quality but I think I managed to get a couple of good shots.
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I use Lightroom to import and manipulate all my images. After I use an image here or elsewhere on the web, I tend to export it out of Lightroom just because it makes my life easier. All of the images that I don’t use online, however, tend to accumulate in Lightroom over time. With that said, it’s spring cleaning/purging time!
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It looks as if Spring is fully underway here in SF. It’s still chilly at night but the weather’s been fabulous during the day. Flowers are blooming everywhere I look and I can’t wait for it to warm up a little more. I hope you guys like flowers because these shots are going to be the first of hundreds coming over the next few months…
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I can’t seem to help it. I always have to take pics of anything green. It’s a moral imperative, even though I’m not sure why. Cacti and succulents are my favorite so I thought I’d share a few…
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