Gone Country

About 15 years ago while driving through the middle of no where Wyoming we stopped to get some lunch at a diner. And while sittin in that diner my dad said lets go have a look at some property for sale. We all of course smiled and went along with him thinkin there was no way he was going to buy this here property.





Well sure enough he did buy that property and for the last fifteen summers of my life we have gone there and enjoyed every, well almost every minute of it!



course now there are bugs, and frogs, and rock chucks and beavers and I am sure a whole lot more critters I don't really want to think about, but there is good stuff too..





Like ridin four wheelers and horses and tractors. Smashin pennies on the rail road tracks and floatin the river.



Now a days theres even runnin water and hot stove! A porch to sit and watch the sun set on.





Most of all there is bein with family and spending time together!



So thank you "bill fribe" for buying that piece of land and lettin us spend time there and make our mark on it!

Thankful

To all the men and women who have fought and fight now to defend our freedoms and preserve our way of life. I am lucky to be an American and thankful for it!

Finally.... Fall

If some one would have told me a few years ago how much I would enjoy landscape photos, I would have laughed in their faces! In photo school those were the assigments I couldn't stand in the least. Now that I have been lucky enough to have lived in so many beautiful places I can't get enough! Funny how things change as you grow....

The District

We finally made it into the District! It was a beautiful day and really fun to just walk around and enjoy some of the sights! Things seem a lot further than they did 10 years ago! I hope this is because of the pregnancy and not the age!




It is an interesting time to be here that is for sure! You can go two steps with out a McCain or Obama something!



Also coming from London you can see where they got their taste for architecture! It was fun to be back in the city, it has been too long!

Good Night London!

We ended our amazing summer in London with a stop at The Tower. It is one place we really wanted to see and so glad we went. It is an amazing structure with so much history!



The White Tower complete with the chopping block they used to behead Anne Boleyn. And Henry VIII armor from the time her was a little boy until right before his death. (he was quite a large man in the end!)



The tower also houses the Crown Jewels which are amazing! The worlds largest diamond can be found there. I just finished reading "the other boleyn girl" and now am wishing I would have paid a little more attention while we were there. Pretty much all the queens of the Tudor period were imprisoned there at one time or another. Such an amazing history.



The bridge was one of my favorite sites in London! It is so beautiful! We rode across it a few time but never walked. I was pretty tired of walking after three months straight of it! But I loved to see it!



We are home now and I haven't missed London until I started to look at these pictures! It is such an amazing place with such culture. I am glad I got to be a part of it, even if it was just for a little while. So we are in transit now, moving from one nations capital to another! Wish us luck!

Ah The Country!

We were able to head out to the country a last weekend! It was beautiful! Clean air, amazing views and castles! We were able to see two, Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle.



Warwick Castle
This huge fortress dates back to the 11th century and has workers re enacting the time period. You can see jousting, a trebuchet and sword fighting.











The Warwick dungeon
this tiny room under the castle that still showed the markings from the prisoners kept there.






Grave yard in Kenilworth








Kenilworth Castle
This is always how I imagined castles would be. Just the structure remains and it is so beautiful!

The English Channel

We headed out to the coast last weekend! I was a bit chilly but fun nonetheless! I love Piers like this! Like Ocean City, I love that place and Brighton is now on my list of favorites! I have always had a thing for Fairs and Carnivals and this one goes year round! What's not to like about that?



I did a series of monochromatic images of the sea while I was in Samoa. I printed them huge on canvas and LOVE them! If I could have an image like this of every sea, that would be something! Two down... how many to go?



The beach! All rocks! Honestly it hurt so bad to take you shoes off and walk on all the pebbles I can't imagine actually spending a day on the beach here!





The seagulls were everywhere! My daughter was obsessed, she kept telling me "bird, high in the sky!" and "birds eat fish!" Which they we doing a little too close to us for my comfort!



And to finish my favorite subject to photograph! My family! You can tell it was a little cold, we all have our jackets on.. Bummer too because I did make us wear coordinating outfits for the trip! My husband is a real trooper!

More Wall Art!

I love trying new things! And I am super excited about how these turned out! The Eiffel Tower will go in my daughter room... when she has her own room again, that is! And the Arc is a little something special for my sister! Hope you like it Ery!

Paris Revisited

Maybe it is having gone to Paris, come back and then going to Paris again.. that I thought maybe I would post a few more photos and a little narration!

The Louvre! Really I was more impressed with the outside than I was with the inside. Not that the Mona Lisa was that great but well.. I had more fun taking images of the outside!



I don't know how this artist managed this amazing sculpture, really it is beyond me! Look at how that veil drapes and that is marble! I mean come on! I was in love!




The one place Kev told me to see was Napolean's Tomb. And he was right! It was really amazing! Maybe my favorite part, this might have been because my feet were so swollen and the marble stairs felt so good to sit on or it was just the beauty of the place. Either way we really enjoyed it!




This is his tomb. It stands 15 feet high and is carved marble, where they found brown marble I don't know but I did enjoy seeing it! They also had a set of his uniform out in a case. He really was so small it is a wonder he had so much power!




We saw the Notre Dame but did not climb the 387 steps. I liked this image, it seems a bit haunted but also fitting for such a place as this.




We did however climb the steps to the top of the Arc. This is an image looking up! It was a daunting task and we had to take a few breaks on the way up, but the view from the top was worth it. another symbol in Paris for Napolean. He was a popular guy... for a while!

Eiffel Tower