Can you feel it? Spring is right around the corner…just a few more days…two weeks ago CA got snow flurries and this week we had to put on sunscreen. The beauty of one of my favorite seasons is upon us. I can’t wait…why?

1. I love photographing outdoors…all. the. time! A little bit of rain doesn’t scare me :) Right now I have a date with a field full of yellow flowers and my beautiful long haired 3 year old. Must go before someone decides the flowers need to be removed!

2. Next month I will be holding Mother’s Day Mini Sessions! I’m really hoping they will be a blessing to some amazing Mothers. Stay tuned for details…

3. Home renovations start! Our house gets a new coat of paint, my kitchen gets a color overhaul and my furniture gets new identities. I hope to blog it all and get some tips in the process (because I definitely don’t see myself giving home decorating tips!!)

In the mean time…go visit one of my favorite blogs in the entire webosphere, In The Fun Lane! Holly, the blog owner and amazing decorator, helped me out with a design question I had. She’s a super sweet girl with amazing taste in furniture!

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We don’t get snow here in Sacramento, but we are famous for the fog. Yesterday it settled deep and didn’t burn off until almost noon. A first for me, photographing fog, I grabbed my camera and 50mm lens, drove down to the park by our house and proceeded to step in the thick fog…and soaking grass. My Chucks and long jeans didn’t thank me.

Some days these photos could be a metaphor for the deep fog that may settle on you or I.  All the things we need to do or to be. But the wonderful thing is that the fog burns off, maybe later than we want, maybe later than normal…but it always burns off.

…with a side of hazelnut coffee.

“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you;

I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,

in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”

Proverbs 63:1

I remember one family gathering when I was a young girl, we were at my Aunt’s house I believe (a place that we didn’t go very often). These family reunions happened once a year, mostly at Christmastime. Now as a young woman I understand why we had such distance, but at the time I didn’t understand it at all.

At this particular reunion my Aunt took me into her garage to show me a dollhouse, complete with furniture and dolls. It was beautiful, it was more than my little eyes had ever beheld and it was not to be played with. Another thing I couldn’t understand.

As their Christmas present, my husband made our girls a doll house. It had always been my dream that if I ever had a little girl, she would have a doll house and she could play with every inch of it. It turns out that my husband had the same dream too. Pink shutters, a chandelier, a picture of our family hanging in the living room, twinkle lights and carpet…it was all put together with our two little girls in mind. As soon as the girls opened it, they put in all the little dolls they could find, they filled the rooms with beds and created furniture with whatever they could find. I love their imaginations.

I have to admit…I love it too. At one point I told my husband I’m not sure who he was making it for…the girls or me.