…street art, public art, graffiti. I love cities. I always have. Despite spending my childhood on the Great Plains, I have always loved the hustle and bustle and eye candy that cities provide. I am fed by people, the scenes, the visual stimulation.

I visited my family in South Dakota for Christmas and while there, we drove past a bridge that was my first introduction to graffiti. It was a colorful, beautiful painting of Bob Marley. Long since painted over, it still comes to mind everytime I visit and drive by that bridge.

So today, the dicotomy of street art and South Dakota inspires me.

 photo from Street Art Utopia

…by a mix of elegance and practicality and, plaid.

photo from Southern Proper

photo from Everything Lovely

…from the beach. Good-bye cold and snow, my husband and I are joining his brothers and their wives for a few days on the beach. The word is it’s full of shells; this landlocked girl is going to try her first official hand at shelling. I didn’t know shell could be a verb!

photo from Sun Believeable

…beyond words.

from The Magnificent Life of Plants

…by the explosion of fall color.

photo: sonya on tumblr via pinterest

…to be quiet today in honor of all those who have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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