bellissima california

amelia

i want eyes this blue...



this is ethan's little niece. i've only just gotten around to processing some photos from a few months ago. i lag sometimes.

world's greatest bedhead:

i was playing around with my little canon flash last saturday morning (had to use it for a shoot that day and was out of practice). caught boy with his hair amess. love.

(note: he's reading a news article online; hence, the expression.)

all smiles

just got back from trip to california. i'll post more pictures later, but this one made me too darn happy so i'm posting it now.

lynn and jack

my old boss from the restaurant had me take some photos of his new baby, jack, and his wife, lynn.

these are my favorites:

i love him, i love her, therefore...

i'm guessing i'll love she and him.

if nothing else, i love their website.

now i just need to go out and get their album. officially added to the old to-do list.

a lovely surprise

i had no idea the zoo had a rose garden until just the other day.

along the mason lake trail:

(a moth-eaten heart)


(if you lie in the dirt you can see all sorts of loveliness above)


(about to jump?)


(vertebrae of little bell flowers)


(like the skin on an old man's hand)


(flowers covered in dust from the trail)


(for ethan and all his butterfly ponderings)

other things that are currently making me happy:

1. we won our kickball game tonight and are now in the championships. oh yeah...

2. andrew bird concert at the zoo last night kicked such complete ass. my love runs deep. so very very deep. the violin, the whistling, the voice, the vocabulary, the wit, the nervous tic motion of the head: all pristine and magical.

3. getting excited about portrait sessions i want to do with friends over the next few weekends.

4. upcoming trip to CA with ethan over labor day weekend. there shall be wine tasting, paula's pancake house, that little seafood shack in malibu, and of course lots of cuddle time with the gunner and the scout. oh, and disneyland. the boy has never been. it's shocking.

5. scrabble games on facebook

it's just grilled cheese, but...

a photo i took is on usatoday.com.

so, you know, if you ever need a sandwich photographed, you know who to call.




also, my new dining out cover came out last week: