P52- Week 29

Happy Monday all! I was blessed to celebrate my birthday yesterday with family and to receive many wonderful happy wishes from good friends. It truly was a fantastic day! The weather was gorgeous and we hung poolside all day. My family spoiled me with my favorite foods, some lovely gifts and a delicious chocolate birthday cake. All that love surely made swallowing 40 a little easier.
I am so grateful for the many blessings I have in good friends and loving family members!!
 After all the fun and festivities, the day ended on this gorgeous note. This was taken with my iPhone over the fence in my mother's back yard. Wowzers! What a spectacular sky!!

Only one day left in the Circle of Moms contest.  If you have a moment, please click the link below to vote. Thank you so much for your support!!!

Project 13 Blog Circle - July

Welcome to this month's installment of a collaborative photo project I am thrilled to be participating in with several talented photographers. This project concentrates on focusing on our everyday moments. Together we will share our images at the end of each month focusing on various sub-themes related to the over-arching theme of Everyday Moments.

 As we all know, life slips by very quickly and the images shared will be small glimpses into our everyday lives. It also provides us a place to share images that may or may not be technically perfect, these are the ones that pull at our heartstrings. I invite you to follow along with me on this project.

Our theme this month is "a different angle." I shot this last night as I was waiting for a client. It was a breezy night and there were lots of kite-fliers out. 

Thanks for visiting! I hope you will continue on through the blog circle by clicking here to visit my talented friend Crystal!

Friday Photo Journal - Week 29

Happy Friday (already?!). I don't know where this week has gone. It's possible I'm becoming more forgetful since I am getting OLDER. Ugh! I'll be 40 on Sunday and I'm not thrilled about it. Not only do I not know where the last week has gone, I am completely clueless as to where the last 20 years have gone!!  Thank goodness I always have a camera near by to help me remember the little everyday moments. Here's a peek at our week:

I can't wait to see your images from last week. I hope you are busy capturing your beautiful life moments. They sure seem to pass by in a flash.

Also linking up with The Long Road to China.

Have a wonderful weekend!

P.S. I have been nominated by again this year for the Top 25 Photography Bloggers at Circle of Moms. If you have a minute to click, I would greatly appreciate your vote! You can vote once per day for the next couple of weeks. Last year I made it to the Top 5 and it was truly an honor. 

Thank you for your support!!

Little Things Thursday - Garden Visitor

Hi friends! Happy Thursday. I hope you are having a great week. I can't believe it's Thursday already and the weekend is nearly upon us again. I have a couple of shoots scheduled and am wishing the rain away! I'm also not ready for the weekend because my birthday is Sunday and I'd rather skip it this year!

What are your plans for the weekend?

Linking up with Kim for:

Only a few days left to vote. The competition is getting fierce I tell ya! I could use your votes pretty please? It's just a quick click and you can vote once per day. Some of my favorite bloggers and photogs are in the running as well and you can vote for more than one of us :) Check it out here:

Thanks so much for all of your generous support! I am so very grateful :)

Thanks for visiting!

Wordless Wednesday - A Little Dream

Greetings friends! Some of you may remember that last year I won the honor of being in the top 5 Photography Blogs in the Circle of Moms contest. One of my lovely readers has nominated my blog once again this year (thank you so very much!), and I would be most grateful for your vote. If you have a moment, please click the link below to vote. You can vote once per day until July 16th. Thank you!!! I truly appreciate your support :)

On to Wordless Wednesday: I played a little bit in Photoshop just for fun. 

This is very different from my usual style, 

but it can be refreshing to go in a different direction now and then,

 just to see where it leads...

This is where I started:

Thanks for visiting! Have a super Wednesday!

Tuesday Chatter

Happy Tuesday all! I am feeling a bit more chipper today as I have finally figured out my blogger troubles. Whew! Apparently it is an issue that many people encounter and there is NO helpful information in the blogger help files, nor do they offer customer service for "free" accounts, even though they charge $10 a year for custom domains. After hours of wasted searching, I finally found a solution in a chat room on blogger issues. Apparently, when you purchase a custom domain through blogger they automatically sign you up for a Google Apps account which governs your domain. Problem is, they don't tell you the user name and password for this account and you have to find a 'roundabout way to reset it. Brilliant. If anyone needs a solution for this issue, email me and I'll try my best to help.

Perhaps it is time to stop dragging my feet and make the move to WP. The only reason I have not done so is that it's difficult to justify the expense when I make nothing from this little blog. I don't really want to put up ads and affiliate links, but it's something I guess I'll have to ponder.

In the mean time, I thought I'd share this pic of Little Miss. She's getting into the terrible 3's stage (yes, I have always found 3 to be more difficult than 2!). Sometimes she likes to ham it up and sometimes she screeches if you even look at her. It's kind of like a toddler teen stage, minus a few hormones, lol. It is so hard to believe she'll be 3 in little more than a month!

Some of you may remember that last year I won the honor of being in the top 5 Photography Blogs in the Circle of Moms contest. I'm in the running again for 2013 but I have fallen behind and the competition is heating up.  If you have a moment, I would be most grateful for your vote! Just click the link below. You can vote once per day until July 16th. Thank you so very much for your support!!!