Fall Colors

My sister, Holly, put together a lovely little bouquet of autumn 'flora' from out in the yard. I love the bold scarlets and golds - nature's last 'huzzah' before its long winter sleep...

Pumpkins

Sometimes - oftentimes - it's the simple things that inspire my eye behind the lens... And I love no subjects more than my family - especially when they're having fun.

It was a lovely, brisk fall evening - the light was perfect, the pumpkins brilliant, and everyone getting a kick out of getting to play with knives...

Sharpening the knives...



Quite a mess...

Drawing the face...


Lighting the candles...


Masterpieces.

Celebrating the Miracle That Is Her Reproductive System...

I recently helped throw my friend, Natalie, a baby shower for her third little miracle... It was a lovely, colorful morning...

Here's my kitchen, as I prepared all kinds of brunch foods...including cupcakes...

The finished products! Decorating cupcakes is so much fun...

We decorated with pansies, mums and colorful boy/girl themed collages, as Natalie doesn't know whether baby number 3 will be a daughter or son!

A lot of the gifts were wrapped in bright, autumn colors...

Baby showers are delightful and exhausting, especially when you're helping pull all the pieces together! They're always well worth the effort, though, and it was great to be a part of gathering Natlie's friends and family around her to help celebrate the miracle of new life.

Autumn in Ohio

It's been quite a while since I've posted here...life has been crazy, time has been short, and internet has been largely unavailable! However, I've found a quiet moment to go to my favorite coffee shop and spend an hour or so catching up. Here's what we did this past weekend...

We always enjoy our visits to Matt's Aunt Mary and Uncle Larry's farm, up in southeastern Ohio... It's a beautiful, quiet area...

Mary has a lovely, colorful garden this autumn...



This was the first time I had met Mary and Larry's horses - they were being abused by flies, but were very sweet and affectionate. They even loved Django, and wanted to kiss him! Django wasn't too cool with that at first, but he warmed up to the horses after a while...


[Do I have to kiss this horse? Gosh!]

I Love My Fancy Camera

[Matt took this picture with our fancy camera.]

...And I'll say it again...I LOVE my fancy camera! I'm not a great photographer, but this camera makes my pictures look like I could be one!

It's a Nikon d80...a dSLR (digital Single Lens Reflex) camera. I'm not 100% positive on what the exact definition of dSLR is (I could look it up for you right now, but I'm too lazy...) My definition is: A highly complicated, technical gadget that can use a wide variety of lenses, and basically works like a completely manual old-fashioned camera...except it's digital.

Ok so my definitions aren't that great, but that's the gist of it.

I don't like to talk about the technical workings of our fancy camera...I'll save that for my husband Matt, who LOVES explaining complicated, technical gizmos. All I really care about is, the camera takes darn good pictures, and I really enjoy using it.

I use the fancy camera all the time. Like this past 4th of July...

[This fireworks photo was taken by Matt.]

And to chronicle my rare dabbles in craftiness...

[Easter dress for one of my nieces.]

...The camera comes in handy to get silly pictures of my favorite mutts, Django and Moby...


...and to take a picture of our 6.5 wk. sonogram picture, as it hung on the refrigerator...because I still can't figure out the scanner...


...and to capture a bird on my husband's head...

[I mean, this kind of happening isn't an every day thing around here...]

Have I mentioned I LOVE black and white photography?

[Well, I really do love black and white photography.]

I used the camera to take a picture of my husband's hair... before his mother cut it all off...

[I actually really like his haircut. I only occasionally miss his shaggy look.]

I use the camera to take pictures of unusual architecture...because Matt and I are weird that way...we always notice architecture... And whether or not a roof is gabled or hipped...or even dutch hipped...because we're weird like that.

[Unitarian Church in Fairhaven, MA.]

[I love thatched roofs.]

I even use the camera to take pictures of me...because I like the way pictures I take of me look, and I usually don't like the way pictures OTHER people take of me look. (Hmm...I said "I" 4 times and "me" 3 times...in just 1 sentence.)