Merry-go-Round

A few weeks ago we met my parents up in Chattanooga for the weekend.  Went to the IMAX, dinner out on the Chattanooga strip, and all that fun stuff.  On our way out, we stopped at a big community park and found a HUGE carousel that you could ride on for 25cents per person.  Not too shabby!  

So we hopped on, and I played with movement...

Unfortunately, they didn't do the whole brass ring thing anymore.  Well, not unfortunately for me.  I would be the one person to get knocked out cold by a "fun" brass ring.  My hand-eye coordination has never been great...
Dizzy yet?

Sweet baby B

A few months ago my amazing sister-in-law S and I spoke about me taking some shots of my nephew (her son) B for their Christmas cards this year. Well, we finally got together a week or so ago...brought B up to a park near their house and let him ham it up.

Ok, first of all, this kid is absolutely adorable...those baby blues are enough to make my knees go weak. Watch out 4yr old ladies! Second, he just flat out knows how to pose. Just start chatting about some Mickey Mouse or Thomas and the smile comes on full blast. Amazing.

Hello, blue eyes

Thanks again, B! You're a natural :)

So I'm a week late...

I know I'm late, but now that my technical issues have been solved I thought I could post some fun Halloween shots.  I have Halloween shots because we are lame, and love to carve pumpkins.  Like so:

We like to get a little creative too...no boring jack-o-lanterns here.  But also no crazy I-just-carved-all-4-Beatles-into-a-6-inch-pumpkin either.  I'm not that talented.

I know what you're thinking...you wish you had a pumpkin like ours.  Well I was pretty proud of him too, until I went out on our porch yesterday and saw this:

I'm afraid our poor jack-o-lantern is dead.  Or really close to it.  Funny...jack-o-lantern's teeth cave in kinda like people's.  Too far?  Gross?  Ok.  But true, and you know it.

Happy Halloween ya'll!

The bloggy god is not shining upon me

So I have been trying to post a new blog (something I am clearly good at) all night long.  Unfortunately, the Bloggy god has chosen not to shine upon me, and absolutely will not let me upload any pictures.  

I keep getting a "Server not responding" message.  Whatever that means.

And, since this is obviously a PHOTO blog, well, there's really no point in blogging.  Except to say that I tried.

I tried!!

Booooo.  I have so much to say - SO MUCH TO SAY!  But don't worry, I saved the post.  And so help me bloggy universe, I will try again tomorrow.

Night ya'll! :)

I am a Roller Coaster

That's right, I said it.  I'm a roller coaster.  Clarification?  Can't read my mind?  Hmm...ok then.

So here I sit, at my computer uploading close to 1500 photos onto my laptop, for the first time in a few weeks.  This is my relationship with photography - I am nonchalant about it for stretches, picking up my camera every few days feeling uninspired by what's around me.  Then all of a sudden, as I've been climbing slowly to the crest of my photography-loving hill, I can't put the darn thing down.  Like, run home mid day when I should be eating just so I can grab my Canon and spend my lunch break at the park across the street taking 350 pictures of TREES.  Or our jack-o-lantern, or some flowers, or my nephew B.  All the excitement of the loopy loops and corkscrews comes rushing in and my shutter finger just won't stop clicking.  

See how I am a roller coaster of photography?  Clear as mud?  Cool.

The downside of my surge of excitement is that now I've got a million photos to put up here but the OCD side of my brain insists on individual posts so that I give the illusion of some sort of organization.  So I need to curb my enthusiasm (ha!) and take my time.  Booooo.  Only children aren't good at that.  

All right then, enough non-sensical chatter.  Let's start with the roses.  (We only children are also slightly pre occupied with ourselves, so it makes sense that I would start with the subject that contains part of my name.  These photos also kicked off my surge in shutter finger love, so it placates the OCD side of my as well.)