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Happy New Year, New Sale & Happy Birthday To The Photographer!
Christian and Kara here.. We hope your year is getting off to a great start! We feel like we haven’t seen anyone in so long.. being tucked away and focused on building the house. It’s been a challenge to get out there. Photography and adventures have taken a bit of a back seat. Thankfully this cold winter has allowed for a little rest time. We hope to have our new home gallery ready for visitors this summer! The Photographer did find some time for a couple “quick dips” in the Lake 🙂 Happy Birthday, Photographer! Today (January 2nd) – I get to celebrate the birth of the grooviest dude I’ve…
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Festival of Sail
As you may have heard.. our little town was taken over this weekend by an interesting event. The Festival of Sail – previously known as The Tall Ships Festival and hosted in Duluth years past. The Photographer and I decided to make a day of it. We packed a healthy lunch (ok fine.. I also made lemon bars – but I use half the sugar!) and loaded up a cooler of water. The Knife River Boat launch (apparently a public launch) was a stunning start. (I kid you not, it looked exactly like Sweden). We floated/ motor-boated to Two Harbors from Knife River. And then we saw them. The tall…
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The Adventure Of A Lifetime – pt.1
What have the Dalbec’s been up to? Well… quite a bit actually. We’re building our dream – literally! I created this semi-hidden blog post as a way to provide an update to those who care about the non-photography related adventures. We haven’t posted everything to social media (execept maybe to “stories”). You might remember me mentioning our dreams of building a new house for us. Well, were deep into that journey now. Having sold the “old” house so we could actually afford to build a new one has been crazy in and of itself. But, if you’re curious. Here a little snap shot of where we are: This is the…
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A Cure For The Winter Blues
The sun is lazily stretching above the horizon and a gentle breeze picks up, blowing a few flakes of snow in front of the sun so it looks like glitter, sparkling all around in a magical just-for-you snow globe.
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Nature
‘Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.’John Muir Hello there, neighbor! I suppose it’s that time again, when I’m past-due on a Following The Photographer update. What a crazy summer! If you’ve been watching The Photographer’s stories on Facebook or Instagram, you might have noticed we are (Still) in the process of building our dream home. It has been a story, y’all. Every single part of this project has been Hurry-up and WAIT. Quick fill out this form… now wait 2 weeks. Now quick get this one in because you’ll…
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I Love To Walk In The Rain
Well hello there.. I know it’s been awhile. Ok maybe a long while. But Hej! Hi! We’re here together again! A brief-ish update on our life: we’ve been living it. A less brief-ish update: I don’t know man. We’ve been busy and working and cooking and trying to catch up. I can’t really say why I haven’t posted on here for so long.. I guess I don’t know why. I want this space to be fun, quirky and a behind-the-scenes look at our life, not just noise, so maybe that’s part of it. The other part might just be that my “creative energy” or whatever has been directed to other…
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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Sunrise
A follower’s perspective This morning started like every other morning.. Don’t these days feel an awful lot like the movie “Groundhog’s Day?” Every day we stay at home, chat with our phone friends, do our daily work, maybe drink too much coffee and get jittery and wish we could go literally anywhere but the next room, make dinner/ eat at some point, and eventually lay our head down upon that wonderful creation known as a pillow so we can hopefully sleep after all the coffee and then start this same day all over again! Whew! Living the same day over and over again (even writing that) is exhausting! But like…
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When The Passionate Create
That includes you. About the above image… I hesitated to share this picture of me from after a day of paddling around our Lake, but it just feels so raw and real and US. I want to be raw and real and US. So there is the (fabulous) NA beer we drink, with the (phenomenal) kayak/ paddle board brand we love, but there is also Me goofing around, being real. Christian and I have fun, that’s what we do. We have this beautiful life together because we know how to laugh. Sometimes teamwork requires loads of laughs.. just sayin’. Recently, I have had the privileged of observing an extraordinary amount…
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A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
And we don’t get to see our neighbors. It’s a whole new world and a new way of living. Here in Minnesota, we’re under a ‘Shelter in Place’ order. Which means no work for non-essential companies. I get it. And we don’t go to an office or hang out in public places. We are taking every precaution. Christian avoids people. He never goes in buildings. He stays outside and in the lake. We have his extremely high-risk parents to consider and care for right now. We are cleaning, sanitizing and avoiding everything and everyone. We are taking this very seriously. That being said, I know that Christian’s work is more…
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What we’ve been up to
When the weather outside is -photographically?- frightful.. It has been an interesting few weeks in Casa de Dalbec. We have been so crazy busy it’s hard to even think at times… believe me when I say, I’m not the kind of person who associates busy-ness with success. In fact, it’s not even the fun kind of busy (with adventures, waves and mayhem and intrigue on the high seas.) We’ve been busy with lame stuff… like fixing multiple vehicles… and trying to upgrade a camper that has (all too quickly) gone well over-budget. While trying not to go too crazy, I’ve been tackling some house projects that I feel entirely unqualified…
