Does this not look ABSOLUTELY divine? Well, it was! (I didn’t even used to LIKE black raspberries!)

I love summer. Absolutely love it. Including the ridiculous amounts of work that come with it, I love every moment. I love the heat, I love the pool, I love the copious amounts of fruit that are ripe for the picking, I’m SO grateful for my Aunt and Uncle who generously share their black raspberry patch…

There is lots in the works around here. There’s a new flower bed on its way, there’s kids who are happy and tanned and tired at the end of each day, a dog who’s BUSHED at the end of the day….and a diaper site that should be up and running again shortly.  DB Impressions is running a sale (email for details, its a great one and won’t happen again for a LONG time….) and there are some SERIOUSLY cool pics coming this way in the next couple of weeks!

But for now, I leave you with this. Yum.

I was up entirely too early this morning, for no particular reason, so I took my cameras and went and enjoyed the sunrise.  Sort of.  (the bugs were bad) ANYWAY…. feel free to come listen to the birds with me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2X2jSKoZiA (and I can’t get the darn video to embed, so I’m sorry, you’ll have to click the link.)

This poor site has been rather unloved lately, but not because I haven’t been busy. There is LOTS going on behind the scenes of both businesses, and I promise to announce it as its ready to unveil!

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

Earlier this week, I teased you with the thought of the photographer *gasp* attempting portraits of her own kids. OutDOOR portraits, no less, in between the rain drops that have been falling nearly ALL week, keeping said kids cooped up FAR too much. So…here is photographic evidence of why there are so few portraits of Blondie and Toddler together!

Either they run away….

Or one isn’t looking….or Daddy tries to help….

Or you can’t see someone’s head…

Or you get an extra character and a goofy “smile”….

Or, they just don’t stay in the tree quite long enough! Despite all that, we ended up in giggle fits, and with some pretty funny memories! So….all wasn’t lost!

Are you aware that its incredibly difficult to get your own children to cooperate for a NICE portrait, even when you have some experience getting kiddos to cooperate and pretend to LIKE each other? Watch for the photostory coming soon!

During this beautiful weekend, I had the pleasure of working with Ellie, our senior rep for the Class of 2010 from Hershey Christian School! She is a beautiful and talented young lady, and she, her Mom and I had a wonderful time creating the perfect images!

Its been hard to tear myself away from processing this weekend, even though I was blessed with extra time to just hang out with the kids, so I hope you enjoy the preview! Thanks for working with me Ellie, I can’t wait to hear what you think of all the images!

The slideshow version! Please excuse the extremely poor picture quality, I’m not sure why its doing that.

Olivia and Leah on YouTube

Enjoy!

This weekend I had the privilege of creating images for Olivia and Leah, two sisters from Palmyra.  They were a joy to work with, and I can’t wait to finish going through their shots, to be able to show Mom.

Hope you enjoyed your sneak peak, girls!