Life is flying by so fast, weeks turn into months, into years. Spun and I just re-registered this domain and realized we bought it almost four years ago. We recounted the story of us laying in bed, nine days into dating, saying “I’m smitten for you,” and she followed with “I’m spun.” I grabbed my iPhone and bought the domain.

Super coincidental that this post’s photo comes from the same juneberry tree that I shot for the first post, as I lay here in the same spot reminiscing memories. I can’t even believe all the things we’ve done in that amount of time. Hooray for living life to the fullest.

See you at the top of the tree, Spun, then we’ll enjoy the view for a moment and then race off on our next adventure.

oxoxo

A gorgeous tulip centerpiece Spun made with flowers from PCC.

I love how each layer gets stronger and stronger, supporting the frailty and beauty of the elements above. Such a strong column together, bringing joy and life into our home.

Thank you my Love for such a keen eye.

This morning Spun and I went running in Seward Park. She heads down there most mornings for Southside Booty Camp, but they’re on break for the week, so the trainee became the trainer as she pushed me to run trails and keep up with her as we tore around fern protected corners and mossy bends.

At one point, we were making our way around Owl Trail and were greeted by, you guessed it, an owl. We’ve seen them in the zoo, but never in the wild. What a stunning bird! The robins and other smaller birds were harassing him/her a fair amount so it took to the air and banked around some trees effortlessly to evade the airborne snacks.

After a few nice strolling points, and a couple sprints, we made our way to the north shore, which is one of my favorite vantage points in the park. The blossoms are in full bloom and Spring is in full swing.

Lots going on this week as well. My sister’s fiancé was promoted at long last (congrats Charlie!), the Magnifying the Universe infographic from last week now has more Spanish users than those in the US, North by Nine is going strong, Spun is going through some great interviews for her dream job and will likely be delivering a baby this week. Oh and one of our dear family friends … or famship as we like to call it … is retiring tomorrow. Congrats!!!

Things are really in full spring this week.

For the past couple months I’ve been working freelancing on a number of different projects through my personal LLC, Mandril Design.

Recently, one of the most gorgeous endeavors and massive undertakings I’ve ever worked on was for Number Sleuth. Through Killer Infographics, my cousin’s amazing infographic shop here in Seattle and with Science is Beautiful, we created a pair of infographics to help illustrate just how big the universe is. One is a static infographic which is a staggering 1000px wide by 20,000px tall showing the relative scale of over a hundred objects within the observable universe (infographic here).

The graphics used in the static version were individually rendered out into high res versions and paired up with an XML file which dictates their scale as well as 10xE position and some descriptive text. Some fancy math and a bunch of tweening with the help of my favorite tweening engine, TweenLite’s AS3 classes, and you have an opportunity to zoom all the way from the observable universe down to a hydrogen atom’s nucleus. All in all, that’s a zoom of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x … not something I think they carry at REI or your neighborhood science gadget store.

You’re going to want to blow this up full screen by the way. It’s infinitely better than in the tiny box below.

The Universe made possible by Number Sleuth

Today I did a quick search in Google and found that the infographic was spreading like wildfire. Guy Kawasaki tweeted about it, somehow it made it’s way to Alltop and Digg and I think most inspiring thus far, it was in National Geographic’s blog. As a long time science lover, it’s truly an honor to have my work anywhere on the pages of National Geographic … and apropos that it’s on their site given my love of the web.

Between these sites and a few others, it’s already garnered over a thousand likes, has been tweeted a few hundred times and pinned to a number of boards on Pinterest. I can’t wait to see how viral it goes over the next few weeks. Definitely look forward to the next endeavor with Number Sleuth, Killer Infographics and Science is Beautiful. There’s a whole universe of gorgeous out there that needs to be shared. Definitely an honor to illustrate it in this way for people to get a good understanding of really just how tiny we are in relationship to so many other things.

Please let me know what you think and definitely share with your friends and family so that they can be inspired as well. I can only imagine if I would have seen something like this when I was a kid. Boom … mind blown.

The insane rain has subsided and made way for the flowers to bloom. What a stellar way to kick off a Friday full of productivity and regained sanity with workload. Soon the sunshine will be on my face and winter will be behind me.

Spun has a lot of prospective stuff on the horizon as well. So many things are blooming. I feel like I need another flower / spring reference…

Love love love the explosion of color lately. Spring is almost here!

Happy St. Patty’s day. One full of wonder and merriment, Guinness and snow? Oh Seattle how we love your delayed winters and summers. Really, you’re just a couple months begin the rest of the country’s weather patterns.

Today, I’m grateful for the bright green clovers juxtaposed against the massive white snow flakes.

Today was a bit soggy at points, but overall it was a stellar, crystal clear, blue sky day in Seattle. Even got a bit warmer around 5 when I was making my way through the city. Plus, I finally got a bit of couch time with my lady. Heaven.

A little nook in a rain drenched alley in Pioneer Square this morning.

Blossoms in the parking lot of a Terrible Beauty in DTR.