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My last post!
It took me much longer than a year but I did it!
I had planned on a different photo as my last post, one with a for sale sign in front of our home. We are moving to Houston, Texas. Patrick has been promoted, he will have to go to work in an office everyday after years of working from home. BIG BIG changes! I am terribly excited and a little sad. I wish I could pack my kids and Oliver up and take them with me. Being far from the children in my life will be hard. I am hoping to throw myself into photography, quilting and exploring Houston.


Oliver eleven months.

The past 20 months I have learned so much about photography. I hope with more study and practice that I will continue to grow as a photographer. I really love it. Thank you so much for following me on this journey. I am going to begin a new blog, one that follows Patrick and I as we start this next stage of our lives. I will post a link as soon as it is up and running.

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This weekend we had big plans to attend Great Grapes. Unfortunately it has been one hundred degrees with a heat index making of one hundred ten. Definitely too hot to be outdoors drinking. We chose instead to do a little gift shopping, a little housekeeping and some reading. Around four o'clock a big storm blew in and cooled things down to a muggy eighty degrees. Patrick and I headed to Kinder Farm Park for a walk. I love to walk there. The trail is just hilly enough to feel like you are working a bit and the scenery is beautiful.

Some parts of the trail are out in the open.

Some parts are wooded and shady. (You can see all the debris from the storm.)

The farm as seen from the far side of the park.

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I have not been taking as many photos as I usually do. It is too hot to do much outside. With temperatures and humidity in the upper nineties Oliver and I are spending much of our day indoors. The room we hang out in is small and not well suited to photography. I have also been a little bored with the same old shots. Today however I found myself longing to take photos. Since the camera has not been out as much as it should Oliver was totally intrigued and kept racing towards it. My toy was much more interesting than his. I grabbed this shot just before he grabbed the camera.

Those eye just melt my heart!

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This weeks Digital Photography School assignment is "In The Kitchen". The assignment had been in the back of my mind but I just couldn't think of the shot I wanted. Then after making minestrone soup this afternoon I was cleaning up the cutting board and inspiration hit. The end of the celery was flower like so we had a quick photo shoot.

straight out of the camera

black and white


I submitted the black and white as my entry.

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We found out about a year ago that Max is allergic to almost everything. His dog food is make from herring, sweet potato and oats and that seems to be working well for him. If we add other ingredients to his diet he gets itchy and his ears and face swell. Finding treats is difficult. At first I spent a fortune buying dehydrated sweet potato treats, then I started dehydrating them myself. After dropping a piece of raw sweet potato on the floor we realized that he liked it and so did Sophie. So now that the outside temperatures are in the nineties (dehydrating requires running the oven at two hundred fifty degrees for six hours) we have been just giving them raw sweet potato. Last week I was out of sweet potato and Max really really wanted something. I looked in the veggie drawer and found carrots. It couldn't hurt them so we tried. Max loves them....

Sophie isn't quite sure.

Kate and Matt decided last week that they would adopt....

(photo by Kate, edited by me)

meet Luna Lovegood.

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On Sunday Oliver will be ten months old. It has been very hot here and we have not been able to be outside for very long. We braved the heat for a few minutes to get some ten month photos this morning. I am hoping to be able to got some "studio" shots next week.

Did you notice the post number? Only five more post to go!!

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