Recently in the Hills behind my Mom's House
Photos by:
Me and Soon-to-be-Unbearded and Delightfully Passionate Armstrong
Soundtrack:
Iron and Wine, Southern Anthem (mp3 link now unavailable)
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Richard said:
Wow, I'm the first to comment! Anyway, fantastic photos! :)
03.31.03 - 07:24 AM / 1Sara said:
My friend and I are wondering... Are you British? You look it. Sorry, that was a random comment. Have a nice day!
03.31.03 - 07:24 AM / 2Beerzie Boy said:
If it weren't Utah, I'd pack up my shit and move my family there pronto. Wow I'm the third commenter.
03.31.03 - 07:26 AM / 3Sara said:
I could charm the socks off you... but I'm a girl and I only weigh 123.5 lbs. Sorry!
03.31.03 - 07:33 AM / 4Amstershiresauce said:
Back to the topic of the other day... Dooce, think about this when thinking about procreating... you can't drink for a long long time. I just found out I am going to reproduce in about 8 months and giving up coffee, alcohol and allergy meds all in the same week has made me one colossal bitch. Prepare yourself if you plan to go down this road. On the flip side, it's all worth it to get my very own wriggling bundle of cuteness. I'm sure you'll feel the same way.
03.31.03 - 07:38 AM / 5Los Feliz freak said:
Dooce, you should do more pictures here. You really have an eye.
03.31.03 - 07:42 AM / 6Jen said:
Excellent pictures!!
03.31.03 - 07:55 AM / 7chris said:
dooce... as always, beautiful pics. any chance we can get you to repost the picture effect post that you had in february?
03.31.03 - 07:58 AM / 8dooce said:
chris: that entry is in the "photos" section under the title "That Lovely Glow Effect."
03.31.03 - 08:01 AM / 9antisocialdiva said:
great pics! i especially like the tenth one down.
03.31.03 - 08:19 AM / 10jen said:
Since I missed my chance over the weekend to respond to you about the S-S-S, Dooce, at least it's that wonderful time of year when no one is telling you to wear it for the mosquitos. Because that smell is so not sexy, and when you're out in nature that beautiful with a hot Grizzly Adams type of guy and a dog who will guard you to the death as long as you please God don't smell like THAT, sexy is really what you're going for. Color me jealous.
03.31.03 - 08:27 AM / 11Jenny said:
Awesome pictures!! The colors are magnificent. Wow. And your dogs are great to be so photogenic... I can never get my cats to hold still!
03.31.03 - 08:29 AM / 12dooce said:
jen: my mom informed me over the weekend that Avon provides the US Military with tons and tons of Skin So Soft to help with repelling bugs and mosquitos. if you think about it, that's just totally weird, all these men and women in fatigues sporting guns and gas masks, all smelling like THAT. i mean, how could anyone smelling like THAT hurt anything?
03.31.03 - 08:31 AM / 13thatnikkigirl said:
Hey Dooce,
I emailed you last friday with a donation, I wondered if you ever got it. Great site, we're linking to it today. Keep it up.
03.31.03 - 08:36 AM / 14matty said:
it is just too damn beautiful there. joe smith had it right when he took his magic glasses and hit brood to utah, boy.
oh. to be on vacation in a beautiful place.
03.31.03 - 08:44 AM / 15Kevin said:
Wow. The first picture is just amazing. Chuck looks fake, like a computer-animated Pixar fantasy dog from the perfect dog dimension. I'm not a dog person and Chuck makes me want to go out an buy a puppy.
03.31.03 - 08:45 AM / 16thatnikkigirl said:
That's something I miss most about utah- the mountains. I grew up in the foothills of provo, 5 minutes from the canyon. I'm utterly convinced utah is the most beautiful place in the world.
03.31.03 - 08:46 AM / 17ardenstone said:
Just saw Iron & Wine last week when we visited SF. I can't see your pictures because they're timing out :(. So I'll just listen to the album instead!
It's back! I can view the purty pictures. :)
03.31.03 - 08:59 AM / 18Adrienne said:
Jeez, Dooce. You don't need kids, you've got that dog.
I think he'd be jealous...
03.31.03 - 09:15 AM / 19Heather #2 said:
Chuck + beautiful Utah scenery + bearded delectability + that kick-ass indie music you keep trying to convert me to = the best Monday morning a girl could hope for from her office swivel chair.
YOU ROCK, sister.
03.31.03 - 09:32 AM / 20mbc said:
i love that thing you do with the gaussian blur. i've tried it on my photos and it rocks my socks to the blocks.
on a random note, i met a heather from byu this weekend, but it wasn't you.
03.31.03 - 10:01 AM / 21Irk said:
Purty!
03.31.03 - 10:26 AM / 22Angelique said:
Wow, awesome.
just a question.... is chuck a mixed breed or is he a full breed.
he's got a killer wide neck!!
is he full grown now??! wow, they grow so fast. such a handsome devil. and very photogenic!!
03.31.03 - 10:36 AM / 23Gina said:
v.cool pics.
i'm all about the sideview mirror shots:
http://scribbling.net/entry/239/
03.31.03 - 10:41 AM / 24zchamu said:
Lovely pics.
What kind of dog is Chuck? (assuming former congressman is not actually a registered breed..)
03.31.03 - 11:05 AM / 25Texas T-bone said:
It's funny, but my mom grew up on an island off the coast of Virginia.
All the fishermen, most of them burly guys with large feet, used Skin So Soft to repel the killer marsh mosquitoes. It works!
Real men do use SSS.
Love your site.
03.31.03 - 11:20 AM / 26dooce said:
chuck is a SuperMut. his orangish-tan coat is the result, as an expert once told us, of so much cross-breeding that he has become "generic." we think he is mostly Jindo, a breed brought to Los Angeles in the early 80s from Korea, he has the same stance and color and facial structure from pictures we've seen. it's all just a guess, really. we'll never know for sure, only that he is the most precious punkin in the whole wide world.
03.31.03 - 11:45 AM / 27toze said:
do you give any sort of photoshopy treatment to your photos? because mine never looked this good...
03.31.03 - 12:03 PM / 28jen said:
hmmm...our men and women overseas bathed in skin so soft? while I totally believe that they use it for the mosquitos, dude--that shit picks up every piece of random lint, hair, dirt and general what-have-you within a five mile radius and adheres it to your body as if with the glue of the ages. this just shows you how comfortable I am in armchair america that this thought is crossing my mind: oily skin so soft + sandstorm=huge, smelly, highly uncomfortable sandmonsters bent on the destruction of Baghdad.
03.31.03 - 12:15 PM / 29Matt said:
Chuck's ears always seem to be standing at attention... Dogs look great when they look like that.
If only I could get our dog to slow down from electron-speed for long enough to get a good photo...
Awesome pix, Dooce!
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