Also, I wanted to let you know that this is going to be a fun week at Namely Marly. I have some new and exciting name interviews coming up this week. I also found a recipe for vegan chocolate ice cream I’ll be sharing with you as well. How fun!

I’m going to leave you with some pictures my husband took recently. My husband is a photographer (you can check out his photography on his site), which means when there’s something interesting, like a spectacular sunset, we’re usually wishing we had the right circumstances to photograph it (no power lines or trees). Recently we saw an amazing sunset after a recent storm. We love living in the downtown area of our suburb where we can ride bikes to the farmers market and the mature trees provide lots of shade. There’s always trade-offs though and having lots of trees (and power lines) does make it difficult to take pictures of the sunset. Sometimes we think we’d like to live in the country, but know we’d miss the convenience of city life. Life is always about choices, don’t you think? This picture is the best that could be done with the circumstances.

The morning after this storm he took this picture of my favorite tree, the bald cypress. (Correction: my husband informs me I took this picture of the bald cypress. Obviously, he’s been showing me a thing or two.) There are two of these trees at the park near our house and they are  awe-inspiring after a rain. This deciduous tree has feathery, fern-like leaves. If you’re there at the right time of morning, the droplets of rain cling to the leaves like jewels and the tree glistens from tip to toe.

My best to you all for a wonderful day! Marly