These two brothers are hilarious. They diligently stood still and followed directions for the more posed shots, and then when I told them to be goofy, they really let loose. I loved seeing them crack up!
Yearly Archives: 2009
Family of twelve, three generations. They found a great park down in League City where we did their session. These families were fun to work with; they all obviously enjoyed being around each other. Because I needed to capture so many different groups together, I didn’t get to spend too much time with any one kid or family, which I regret, but here are a few of my favorites from that morning.
Bluebonnets are big in Texas. A couple weeks ago, my mom came down from Dallas to babysit for me (nice, huh? a four-hour drive to babysit!), and the afternoon that she got here, we went out in search of fields of bluebonnets. This is the Texas equivalent of leaf-peeping in New England in the fall. Tons of people are out looking at bluebonnet fields, parking wherever good views are to be found, tracking the peak flowering on websites.
We also stopped at the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham for ice cream. Lyle liked running around in the fields of flowers, but the ice cream was definitely the highlight of his day.
I post a new photo of Lyle every day–taken that day–on my photoblog, CuriousLyle. I’ve never missed a day yet since he was born. A lot of people ask me how I manage to take a photo every single day. The answer is that I take my camera almost everywhere with me. I take it to fun stuff, like the children’s museum, playdates, walks around the block, but I also take it other places. I take it to the grocery store. (And as an aside, I get a lot of comments on the camera in grocery stores.) I take it to Target. I take it when I drive our glass recycling to the drop-off center.
Last month my mom came down to visit for a couple days over my birthday. She got a couple pictures of me in front of our house.
And here are the photos that I was shooting at the time.
I have been dealing with a sick and VERY cranky two-year-old for the past few days, but luckily he’s over it now and he’s back to his happy self and I feel a little less crazy. Oy.
We have had some beautiful fog in my neighborhood the past few mornings. This morning after I dropped the (cheerful, happy, perky) kid off at preschool, I stopped to take some photos along the bayou that runs near our house. The bayou divides a fairly busy road. There are bike paths on either side of it, and a large median with lots of trees. Look how pretty it is.
