Check it Out!

Pretty impressed with myself ...

16 hours into it and I've got the "memory mate" finally figured out.

THIS is beyond the fog!

Group Shot ... professional ... 2nd shot ... cell phone .. BUT you get the idea!  Incredible isn't it!  Penthouse living!  {priceless}

Uptown Girls

Look at the fancy bling! The Ladies aren't so bad either!  {and what a trip we had}! ... honored to call these girlz my friends. 

Crazier yet ... our stunning background is ALL fog ... behind that fog is wonderful scenery of a full park, The Pier, Lake Michigan and a whole slug of sky-scrapers.

{gorgeous day}

I do believe my first wedding is deemed successful!  I had fun.  Bride & Groom had fun!  {best wishes and happy times} blessed to this new family!

{young beauty}

~wow~  one capture was fantastic, another a while later, was a gift!

Bugs and me ... we get along!

{moonglow}

{ ... so happy together ... }

WHAT an absolute {joy} this first venture was.  How thankful I am these two smitten people allowed me into their lives to capture special moments.  Their love made it so easy! 

Recruits - models! Good to have friends!

Twins Fan

What a wonder man this little guy is!  Truly a miracle, but think we all can call him a "warrior"! {calm*happy*pensive*lucky guy to have grama and grampa in his life} ... great eyelashes by the way!

Like ... right out of a calendar!

This wee little one is an off-spring of "Orangie".  Like her mother, she's fluffy, orange, and calm and DANG cute!

{a day in the hay mound}

Photos are so easy when there is love!

Stars and Stripes = Fourth of July

Sorry, not mine, but my mentor's!

Recent Grads

Must be time - "shot" these young men some time ago, invites just processed, and now they await their diplomas! Best of luck to all ... life moves on ... and on ...

Peanuts & CrackerJack

... i must admit ... sports photography is one of my faves.

Make your athlete a sports profile disk ...

Put those efforts (yours and theirs) into photo memories.

They'll look like a star! 

{you know where to find me!}

As the Sun Goes Down

on our Minnesota farm ...

We'll be groovin' & Feelin' alright.

Lion King and Queen

SO magnificent.

New camera lense workin' pretty good! :)

Canadian Jay aka Gray Jay ... is he NOT beautiful?

... a 12" bundle of feathers waiting for me on top of Mt. Norquay. 

He (and I'm sure there was also a girlfriend)

upstaged the Mt. Goats I was ambling about to shoot! 

vista from Soakin' in the Spa Pool - therapuetic waters ... mmmm. where's the wine?!

Bloodroot - from the Heart

"Bloodroot" perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia, Canada. Bloodroot stores sap in an orange colored rhizome. The plant was used as a dye and for an herbal remedy by the native population. Plants are found growing in moist to dry woods and thickets, often on flood pla...ins and near shores or streams on slopes. The United States FDA has approved the inclusion of sanguinarine in toothpastes as an antibacterial or anti-plaque agent.

No, let me tell you a story .... Bloodroot was common to my mother's home, St. Bruno, just east of Montreal. Upon moving to the U.S. she was always open eyed to finding this charm flower again. Sort of a like a spring pasque flower, what is different about the Bloodroot - is that it bleeds...a thick red sap, upon being picked. I remember stopping the car in the middle of roads to hop out and take a look at a white ditch flower - just in case, it was Bloodroot. Nope. About 20 some years later - I celebrated a significant birthday at the county park exploring and picnicing with my then, 5 yr. old son. My spring bday is usually overlooked (farming family you know), so I was feeling blue. After a lovely afternoon we proceeded to leave and lo and behold greeting me at the exit of the park across the road (yes - in the Klemm pasture ditch), was a white flower. YOU BET - I pulled over and jumped out to pick and "test" this flower. AND IT BLED. It was the Bloodroot mom had forever been searching for. Now, mom was in her latter years of Alzheimer's and missing her, especially this day, was strong. SHE SPOKE to me!!!! So - I went back and dug up a little wad of bloodroot and replanted in my garden. For ten years now, it grows, sprouts out a flower or two. And this year - TEN YEARS LATER - look what I've got! A "clutch" - a posey of many many blossoms.

} Benny Birthday Boy {

Where It All Began

Who'd have thunk a few giftables of foto-journaling weddings for friends woulda created requests?  Thank you brides and grooms for the sun shiny wedding days.