Watch Me Grow

Ok...this one I cheated on.

The sunflower is from last summer

But, oh SO BIG and BEAUTIFUL!

Baby Grapes...

Getting bigger already!

 

Baby oranges (left) and lemons (right)

I'm a jungle cat, you can't see me.

I'm so amazed by what can grow in our backyard with a little sunshine and water.

 

Why hello Mr. Grasshopper, please don't eat my plants.

 

Wait, I think I blinked!

Okay that's better

Flowers always make people better, 
happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food, and medicine
for the soul.

~Luther Burbank 

Red, White, and Blue

Guess what the honeybunny and I did?

Why yes...we did.

We went to an airshow.

It was great to be able to look into a 88 year old veteran's eyes, shake his hand and say, "Thank you for your service to our country."

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  

~Hamilton Fish

The Greatest of These

The Beatles say, "All you need is love..love...love is all you need."

Tina Turner said, "What's love got to do with it?"

But, my favorite saying that has proven itself in my own life is that LOVE

...bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

~I Corinthians 13:7

What an amazing piece of truth to hold on to especially when two months before my wedding day, I was laying on a cold hard surgical room table with the doctor saying I was in heart failure.

What???

I was only 29, working night shift as a nurse, planning my beautiful wedding day to my true love.  

My plans were moving along like clockwork. 

Needless to say, my true love was right there by my side without missing a beat, saying okay what do we need to do to get you better?

He truly lives out that verse everyday.

He hopes that I get better.

He bears the fact that we can't have a baby.

He endures all the hospital stays, doctors, medicines, tests, fatigue, visits to specialists.

He believes in me to follow my dreams.

He has endured all this right along with me.

...But now faith, hope, love, abide these three, but the greatest of these is love.

Thank you God for your gift of love through my honeybunny!

Now that all that mushy stuff is out of the way, and I'm wiping my tears away while writing this, 

let's stroll down memory lane...

 

Our first date, our official day we became a couple May 25, 2005, and the first time we said "I LOVE YOU!"

YES, we said IT ALL IN CAPITALS, EXCLAMATION POINT!

Summer Lovin'

 

 Love is friendship set to music.

~Joseph Campbell

Lucky girl

Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you 

added them all up, they meant

we were suppose to be together...and I knew it.

I knew it the very first time I touched her.

It was like coming home...only to no home I'd ever known.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it.

It was like...magic.

~Sleepless In Seattle

Big Happy Dream

What an adventure! And what a way to truly follow your passion in life...

Thank you blue lily for encouraging us to follow our BIG, HAPPY dreams!

I met so many other talented photographers as well at the goPro workshop, everyone was so nice and we really worked well together. 

 I was afraid that everyone else would already know about starting a photography business, editing, posing, and that I would be so lost.  

But I felt so at ease with all the other girls, and one token guy! He was such a good guy.  He carried my purse for me through the park while we were doing a photo shoot.

 I forgot that I put it down, and all of a sudden did that whole heart sinking feeling thing that I lost my purse. But then there he was, carrying my white Coach purse saying is this yours?

Um...YES! 

Thank you!

If you have that small, little voice in the back of your head saying "I love photography".

GO TO A goPRO WORKSHOP!

(that's all i have to say about that)

email info@bluelilyphotography.com

"If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived?  Find your passion, whatever it may be.  Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen for you, to you, and because of you."

~T. Alan Armstrong