where to find me...

It's been a while! I am posting my photographs primarily on Instagram lately. You can find my daily life photos at my @carissapod account. I also have a clothing/fashion related account at @carissapod_wears.

Maui

My brother generously invited us along on his company's huge annual Hawaii vacation, so we got to spend 8 days in Maui last month. It was our first time traveling to Hawaii and we had an awesome time. My Instagram feed has lots of photos of the trip, you can find them all with the tag #fishparadeinmaui (Dustin tagged his pictures as well).

Here are some of the pictures I took with my Lumix GM1, you can find the rest of those in my Flickr album Maui 2015.

scenes from the weekend

This weekend I hung out with cats, picked up a package, went downtown and wandered around, and visited Golden Gardens Park in Ballard (more from there in my Instagram feed).

signs of spring

Somehow it's already spring in Seattle -- pictures from a recent walk from North Queen Anne to Fremont.

Our cats.

Rowen and Margot.
[Blue point Siamese and Turkish Van, both females under 2 years old.]

Olympic Peninsula part 3 - the rest!

I have been negligent getting the rest of our Olympic Peninsula trip posted, so I'm going to do one big last post with highlights from the remainder of the trip. We visited three more beaches and a gorgeous rainforest (Hoh Rainforest) before heading back to Seattle. The giant driftwood tree pictured was right outside of our cabin on the beach at La Push Beach.

(For the rest of my pictures from the Olympic Peninsula check out my Flickr album of our trip.)

Olympic Peninsula part 2 - Second Beach [in fog]

For the second part of our Olympic Peninsula trip we met up with some friends and stayed at in a cabin on the beach at the Quileute Oceanside Resort, located on La Push Beach in the Quilete Reservation on the west coast of the peninsula. La Push beach is pretty great, but a couple of miles down the road is a place even better: "Second Beach," a victim of some utilitarian naming scheme that completely fails to pay homage to its otherworldly beauty.

You have to hike down through one mile of temperate rain forest to reach Second Beach. The beach is very flat so water creeps up slowly toward you for dozens of feet with every breaking wave. Our first visit to Second Beach was shrouded in fog, which made it all the more glorious.

Second Beach will always be First Beach in our hearts. <3