Comparatively speaking, today was an absolutely GORGEOUS day!!! It didn't quite hit 60 degrees, but I don't give a crap! The sun was SHINING and the sky was BLUE!!! Can I get a HALLELUJAH?!?!?!!!! Looky what we got to do today! I just LOOOOOVE the sound of lawn mowers on the weekends! I also happen to love the smell of fresh cut grass, despite the fact that I'm very allergic to it. WHY, then was I lying in it to take this picture? I don't know, but I had to be quick because the mower was running, and he was coming straight for me!! Just look at the look on his face. The little turd didn't even slow down. He thought he was pretty funny. =)
I also got to play in the dirt! I fluffed my flower beds and pulled the first of the weeds this season. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love to work in my flower gardens. I could sit my butt in the dirt and weed all day long and be completely content. Truth be told, gardening is a spiritual thing for me. I feel closest to my maker when I'm outside soaking in the beauty that surrounds me.
Although we're slated to get lots of rain in the next week, I'm THRILLED that the temps will hover around 60! I can deal with the rain if the temps are a smidge warmer than they have been. And the sun promises to peek through the clouds a day or two. Can you hear me singing? HERE COMES THE SUN!!!! YAAAAY!!!!
My blog posts have been far and few between lately. I've been so busy working on 5 things at once that nothings getting finished. BUT, that is a bout to change, I promise!!
Until then, I wanted to link up to another one of Tracy's parties! This time, it's all about angle.
So, much like I've done in the past, I'm using pictures that I've taken in the last little while. I wish that mother nature would take her Prozac in these parts and allow spring to come already. I'm SO OVER winter!! Incidentally, this is what my poor tulips are enduring for the time being. And since I wasn't about to lay down in the snow, because I wasn't appropriately dressed, I just pointed and shot this picture, so it's not the best, but you can see a much better picture right below. This picture and the one below are taken at ground level, looking up, as it is on a slight hill.
THIS is what my flower garden will look like in a couple of weeks. I'm so anxious for the blue sky, warm temps and for these beauties to bloom again!
Since I'm still balking about it feeling like winter, I thought I'd throw in a couple of my favorite pictures from about a month ago. We have a place in the mountains we love to go tubing/sledding at. The kids have a ball, as you can see in these fun pictures.
This one is my youngest son. I laid down on my stomach so that I would be below him as he came off the jump. I wanted to catch his air time! Rather than centering this picture, I composed it so he'd be in the upper corner, not just capturing his launch, but also his landing strip. I think this definitely adds interest to the picture.
My 11 year old daughter had a heck of a time convincing her younger cousin to go down the steep hill with her. Although you can't see how big the hill really is, I think their faces tell it all. If you haven't already, you've got to click on this one and enlarge it to see Kailey's face! She's having fun, yet looks terrified at the same time!
My son was busy with his Lego's not too long ago, and was so proud to show my his creation. I just had to take a picture. I took this one at ground level. I offset him a little, making sure to get the bucket of Lego's in the picture as well.
Here is one of my daughter (in the bottom, right hand corner) and 4 of her neighborhood friends at their dance recital. I thought with all 5 of them in the same dance class, it would be fun to do a little photo shoot with all of them dressed alike. I stood above them for this one.
These next two pictures were taken in Moab. We took our kids from Florida to hike one of the beautiful National Parks in Southern Utah. We had a great time and can't wait to go back again. This picture is of our oldest, who appears to be hanging on for dear life over the edge of a wall. Obviously, this one is all about illusion.
Although there were some death defying cliffs that had my stomach churning, Chris is really just crouching down on this ledge that Chelsea is sitting on in the picture below. Isn't the view breathtaking??!?!?!!!
Oh how I long for summer! This picture was taken last summer at the pool that my handsome nephew worked at as a life guard. I really wanted to take his picture, but he wasn't so willing to let me do so, so I had to be sneaky. I simply held my camera at waist height, so he didn't realize I was taking it, pointed and shot. Every time I held the camera up to my eye, he'd turn away or cover his face. I got SO LUCKY with this one and actually got a centered picture! I also love the sun flare. It's seems so appropriate for the time of year!
I hope you enjoyed my angled pictures! I was really wanting to go somewhere and shoot new pictures, but the weather outside is FRIGHTFUL!!!!! It's just too darn cold. And with that, I leave you with one last picture of the blossoms on my tree getting ready to pop! Hopefully I'll be singing in the sun in the next week or so.
Oh! WAIT! Just because I can......I want to include this video of Chris. Not only does he do a great cover of Jack Johnson, I kinda liked his ANGLES in it, too. =) Hope you enjoy it! He played/sang each part seperately and then mixed it together on his laptop. (Please never mind my messy, soon-to-be-finished basement.)
