I’ve been quiet lately. That’s because I found a software that would let me to cull my pictures faster than in a regular Mac Finder and I went on a second round of keeping and deleting (and oh my, I deleted more than a thousand pics over the week!). Software is also handy for keywording, now I finally can find my images without trying to remember when those were taken. Sounds like one perfect picture browsing software, doesn’t it? There are two important downsides that prevent me from recommending it to everyone.

As you probably already know, Anastasia celebrated her 8th birthday recently. Making birthday party invitations by ourselves has already become a tradition in our house. We try to think of a different way to do it every time, as Anastasia’s writing skill evolves. This activity always involved a lot of drawing, cutting, glueing, designing and writing. But this time I drew the templates on the computer and Anastasia had to cut and glue them together, so as write her friends names in.

Project 365 is a popular thing among photogrophers all over the globe.  The point of it is to take at least one picture a day for a whole year. After completing one, whatever was your purpose, you can assemble your days in collages by weeks and print a picture book of the year.

When I heard about the project 365 for the first time, I thought that it could be a fun way of documenting  our family life, though I also felt sceptic about the whole thing and thought that I probably wouldn’t have enough patience and time to stay on track with it for a longer time. While I still wasn’t sure if I’m going to do it or not, I got an invitation to a Facebook group of people joined together for the 365, and their excitement soon enough got into me. A few days after I had already been filled with anticipation of a journey and was curious where it could lead me.

There is a place in Riga where spring always comes first. I would even say, it never leaves this place. Something is always blooming there any time of the year, as far as I know. Have you already guesed what place am I talking about? No, I’m not speaking of the flowerbed of our neighbour old lady (though, if she had a winter house for her plants there, it would be another correct answer). The place is the Botanical Garden of Riga. I was in some other botanical gardens in other countries and I must say that after comparing it with the others, I am quite proud of ours. Maybe it doesn’t have such a variety of plants, maybe it’s old. But it’s treated with a big care and it’s really neat, beautiful and stylish. It also has some benches, so you can make a picnic there.