aimee’s plates
Friday, September 3rd, 2010last summer when i drove to lawrence to meet aimee (artsyville), jackie (smoothpebble), and melinda (my purple crayon), i borrowed 2 plates from aimee for serving cheese in my hotel room. at the end of my stay, i popped the plates into my suitcase, fully intending on handing them back to aimee when we said our goodbyes. when i got home and unpacked, i realized i still had the plates. aimee said “toss ‘em!” but i couldn’t throw perfectly good plates away! so the unloved plates went on tour. and over the last 12 months, aimee has received photo postcards in the mail of the plates’ adventures:

photo by jenn
the plates started their travels with a visit to the lyndale park rose garden here in minneapolis last summer. rumor has it it’s where aimee got married.

photo by me
then they made their way to new york for a fall weekend, where they got to see the empire state building.

photo by anna
back in minnesota, they went on a walking tour of saint anthony falls. it was unseasonably cold that day for october.

photo by tracy
vegas! vegas sun is so much better than october in minnesota! (i made tracy walk 3+ miles to the sign. i thought it was only a few blocks from our hotel, and we were both very hung over, so i babbled on and on to keep tracy from focusing on how much she hated me for making her walk to the stupid sign. i think i also bought her egg mcmuffin when we stopped at mcdonalds for grease and caffeine. once the photo was taken, we flagged a cab back to the hotel.)

photo by martha
the plates then rested a bit - it was a busy fall! but immediately after christmas they traveled to seattle, and they were photographed during a great afternoon photo-walk with one of my very first flickr friends.

photo by me
then up to michigan’s upper peninsula in february, to see lake superior’s icy shore. brrrrrr!

photo by kristin
summer has been fabulous in minnesota, so a photo at one of aimee’s favorite minneapolis lakes — lake of the aisles (with a view of downtown minneapolis!) — was a great way to end the plate’s tour.
and that’s it! the plates have retired from traveling.
read aimee’s perspective on the plate silliness…
it’s a 3-day weekend for us, and i’ll be avoiding the interwebs until next week. happy weekend!













































































