stars shining bright above you

The other night, the beautiful Olivia and Anne and I went out for a photo shoot. At night. when it was 32˚F. AND they were wearing dresses.  { fantastically incredible makeup done by Sam :) }

Since I seemed to be the only sane one in this situation, I was wearing a shirt, sweater, fleece sweatshirt, denim shirt (my father's) and my favorite scarf (aka the cloak, if you remember.) With all of that on, I was still cold. So I can't imagine how freezing they were. But they both insisted on walking down, from Olivia's house, to the ocean. 

In the beginning of the day, they wanted to go into the ocean. But when we were running a tad late (about 5 hours) and it was pitch black, and about 10x colder, they decided not to risk  losing their lives to hypothermia.

We ended up having fun, but a cup of hot chocolate and a chair by the wood stove was exactly what we needed.

dream a little dream of me — the mamas & the papas

white winter trees, covered in snow

Today, it snowed. It is the second snow of the season. But I'm really considering it the first snow, because the real first one was before Halloween, and it melted the next day. SO, today was a day to be spent inside, drinking hot chocolate, photographing Olivia's cats (which is truly addicting) and eating grilled cheese.

It turns out that today wasn't an inside day... Later on we went outside (multiple times) for multiple photo shoots — which you will see in a couple of upcoming posts! :)

Please listen to this song! It is pure beauty.
(Skip to 00:55 seconds... it's live, so they talk in the beginning.)


winter trees — the staves

{thanksgiving part 2}

SO... I had this idea of taking pictures of all of the wonderful food I just consumed, but I quickly forgot about that when I finally had it on my plate. This Thanksgiving, as well as the rest, I ate extremely fast, and plunged myself deep into a food coma. 

The things that I did get a picture of: the beautiful candles... and my pumpkin cheesecake! Some thing I am extremely proud of — pumpkin cheesecake with a maple pecan glaze, and... it had no cracks! :)

...plus the sunset

{thanksgiving part 1}

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

This years thanksgiving is being spent at my house. We have family coming from all over. This morning we all went for a walk with the five dogs: Milo (mine), Shadow, Buddy, Rosie, and Mario. When we got home my little cousin started shoveling (taking snow from the pile and dropping it into the already cleared area.)


see part 2 later today (I made a pumpkin cheesecake!)