More Frosty Winter Mornings

Frosty Winter Mornings

A few times each winter when the conditions are just right for us to get frost, as in hoar frost since the ground is already frozen. Basically, hoar frost is a deposit of needle-like ice crystals formed on the ground by direct condensation at temperatures below freezing point. It is also called white frost. It does look like everything is coated and white and it just glistens in the sunlight. It is such a pretty sight, I am not sure that my pictures even do it justice.






Not frost, but I love the icicles forming in the pine trees as the sun is warming the snow causing it to melt.

Winter's Solitude

A peaceful winter day.

Winter Fun!

On of E's favourite things to do in the winter is being towed around behind the snowmobile on her sled. We have not had much snow this winter up until the last few days when it started to snow, and has just kept snowing and snowing. We went out yesterday to play in the the snow, but it was still snowing, and very cold and windy. E was just getting to much snow in her face behind the sled so she decided just to play on the snow hills herself.

I would have been so ready to go inside with this much snow in my face, but it did not phase her in the least, she just went on playing.

Happy New Year!

So Excited

Now I remember being really excited waiting for Christmas morning to see if Santa had come in the night, when I was little. I also remember D being very excited about Santa and Christmas, but I don't think either of these can compare to "E's" excitement. I think the excitement just built a little more each day since her birthday. By Christmas eve, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep. She was still awake at 11:30, and 12:30 and 1:30. Finally she was off to sleep, but it did not last, at 2:45 in the morning I awakened by a giddy little girl who could not wait to tell us that Santa had been here. She promised that if we came and looked she would go to sleep for a while. Finally we got her back into bed and she slept for a few hours, but was awake again by 7 when D got up.

See how excited she was. If only I could bottle up that excitement and save it.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all my family, friends and clients a very Merry Christmas and every happiness in the new year!

Guilty Pleasure

Yes, this is a post about a guilty pleasure of mine, well really, I have included a few things that together make is a really guilty pleasure. Hmmm, maybe I should rename it "The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure". The reason, I would post this, since it is out of the norm for me is because Brandy and Danna over at Two Photogs are having a cool contest for an opening in their online mentoring program that will start in January. Brandy and Danna decided that seeing as its the season of giving that they were going to give away one of the spots available for our first mentoring session.

Cool contest huh! I have to admit that I am huge fan of both of these ladies and that I truly love newborn photography, so to be able to get in on a mentoring session by these ladies would be awesome! OK…so, if you want to win one of the 5 spots available for the on line mentoring Danna and Brandy decided is what you need to do….

Take a self portrait that incorporates your favorite guilty pleasure. Then post it to your blog and link it here in the comment section before midnight on Tuesday December 15th so we can see what you have done. We will be choosing the winner next Wednesday (December 16th, 2009) when we announce the full details of the mentoring sessions. This will NOT be a random draw, the winner will be chosen by us based on their creativity and effort.

So here we have it, my Ultimate Guilty Pleasure, relaxing in my computer chair (wearing my favorite warm, comfy pajama pants), with a cup of hot cocoa, complete with a layer of mini marshmallows, some whip cream and chocolate shavings, some chocolate (opps, I kinda broke into that before the self portrait photo session was over) all while, I surf the internet for my favourite photography sites/blogs to see their latest work, and well maybe a few other sites too. LOL!

Caught in the act!

Now, this did not turn out quite as I had imagined, so here is a little closer view of the necessities for an afternoon of surfing. The little pink and blue thing is a play dough teddy bear that my daughter made for me. Unfortunately it fell over, and I missed setting it back up again.

Happy Birthday "E"

I cannot believe that my baby is 6 already. Where does the time go??? It seems like just yesterday she was a baby.

In honour of her birthday I thought I would share a few new favorite pictures of her that I took of her recently while I was practicing working with sun flare.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!