Namely Marly

I’d like to share with you all some good news — I have an article published in Technorati. The article is called 7 Diet Tips I Learned from my Skinny Husband. I wrote this post after spending time watching my (yes, skinny) husband eat, and eat, and eat (not all at one meal, obviously). He’s never had a problem with his weight and I came to the conclusion that as a result he must have the key to some holy grail of eating. Never having been defiled by rigid rules of diets, he eats in a way that is in no way emotionally attached to food. He enjoys eating. Thank goodness he likes sweets because look at all the dessert recipes on this site! We’re both vegan which means that we’re picky about our food, but I’ve learned a lot from watching him and I’d like to share those tips with you all. I hope you’ll check out the article on Technorati Lifestyles.

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