tt on tumblr

Ugh you guys! My brain is not working today. I've tried to write the first sentence to this post like 5 times now, and it's not happening. So let's just get to the point.

I started new blog on Tumblr.
It's for Livia.
It's called "the tiny tornado."
I was waiting until I got some fabulous pictures before I shared it with you.
That's not happening.
So I'm going to share it anyway.

Here's the link.

Pop over and check it out. I'll wait here.

See? Just a little photo here and there of our day. Notice I didn't say "daily photo" or anything crazy like that. But I hope to do a couple each week. This was going to be my 'thing' for 2012, but it was so fun seeing her cute little face pop up that I added some favorites from 2011.

I'll be posting most of the photos here as well, maybe in a monthly re-cap or something... so if you don't subscribe to the RSS feed, you won't be missing anything. I just thought it would be a fun little project for me and TT. When I show her the pictures, she squeals "OH MY GOSH!!! That's so CUUUUUTE!" We're still working on modesty.

Thanks for looking! xo

last week looked like this

And also these things happened...



(Oh, the little squares above? My Printstagram poster arrived last week - YAY!)

Hope you all have a great week!
xoxo

black and light

Just a little parking garage fun... :-)

the day it was 62 degrees in january and we went to the park

beauty around me

It's funny. I was going to ring in the new year with this totally poignant post (which now sounds bit absurd since I actually had to google the word poignant to see if it even meant what I thought it meant). As it turns out I don't have a poignant thought in my head and should just stick to being me. I was going to share my feelings and frustrations about living in a medium-sized Midwestern city, that quite honestly does little to fuel my photographic creativity. But then I was going to inspirationally turn it around and write about how if you really looked, you could find beauty anywhere. Take off the blinders, dig a little deeper, see things in a different light... peel the onion ...

So after much reflection, I've realized...

When it comes to photographic inspiration, this medium-sized Midwestern city STINKS!

Having no cool, urban architecture or bustling city streets to photograph (my passion, although you'd never know it) STINKS!

Having no city night lights to photograph STINKS!

Having a beautiful, 68 degree day in January and having nowhere to go except the local (dead) flower garden STINKS!!

(Oh, and happy new year by the way!) :-)

So now for your viewing pleasure, some wrinkled up old flowers about 4 months past their prime.

But first...not to be outdone by the wrinkly flowers, may I present...... some shriveled up berries. (Let's all try to contain ourselves).




I'm not sure why I'm even posting these pictures. At first I secretly kind of liked them, but after the love goggles came off, it turns out they're not really doing much for me after all.




Well, good thing I didn't go with my original 'beauty around me' theme. Perhaps beauty can't be found in a local flower garden in January.




Or maybe it can.