Ryan and Kristi - Part Two

A few outtakes...

Ryan and Kristi (Preview)

My friends Ryan and Kristi recently moved out to SoCal and it's been lots of fun getting to see them more.  They are soon to be married and were brave enough to ask me (!!) to do their engagement pictures.  Ryan even let me use his super sweet camera!  We had a grande time at the Riverside Mission Inn and here are a few of my favorites.  Enjoy!

This is only a preview for the following reasons:
1. It's bedtime and I'm tired
2. I work tomorrow
3. I need to learn how to resize for web and apply my initials in a much more streamlined and FAST manner (Note to self: must look up more info on Photoshop actions!)
4. To increase your enjoyment tomorrow (let's hope!) when you get to see the rest!

Thank you and Good Night!

Savor

"We don't take enough time to enjoy our senses.  

To savor tastes and sounds and textures and light.  

The roughness of corduroy pants, 

the shadows on the floor as the sun shifts, 

the pink in a child's cheeks as he laughs.

This beauty, this unnecessary detail, is a mystery." 

- Emily Wierenga

(From this website, sent to me by this dear friend.  Pictures by me.)

Autumn Abundance

I know that it's winter for many of you, but it's still Autumn here in SoCal.  We have been super than excited to pick our first few tomatoes from our garden.  For those that have hear our gardening woes, you will understand how awesome this is for us!  And for those who haven't, yes - we should have had tomatoes long ago.  But we are just now getting them and for that, we are very thankful!  The other fruits include persimmons and either tangerines, clementines, or tangelos (we can't figure out which they are!)

On friday, I turned 20 pounds of this....

...into four loaves of this!  We're enjoying it immensely!