steph, my steph

as some of you know, my birthday is coming soon (on the 28th i'll be 31 >shudder<) and i am having a party at my friend stephanie's house on sunday the 26th. we had a bit of a misunderstanding earlier so i went over to her house a little while ago to make sure everything was ok. of course, it was. we have been friends for 8 years and been through tons together so i suppose i knew that it would be ok. anyway, i got some fab pics of her and her man nick and her wonderful backyard. here is some lovely stephanie (the younger) for you to look at...

steph by her coy pond

steph looking fab as per usual

and for my stephanie, a quote from her beloved nietzsche...

a philosopher; a man who constantly experiences, sees, hears, suspects, hopes, dreams extraordinary things; who is struck by his own thoughts as if from without, as if from above and below, as by his kind of events and thunder-claps; who is himself perhaps a storm and pregnant with new lightnings; a fateful man around whom snarling, quarreling, discord, and uncanniness is always going on. a philospher: alas, a creature which often runs away from itself, is often afraid of itself- but which is too inquisitive not to keep 'coming to itslef' again...

steph's pond

steph and her boyfriend nick