Misty Morning Practice

Last Friday just before noon, I received an invitation via phone call to come and photograph a practice burn for 2 local fire departments just down the road from where I live. Of course, I said YES, as I enjoy photographing fire and seeing as I have worked with some of these fine gentlemen before in another practice burn that they did with our town's department, I was all the more pumped to get out and photograph for them. Saturday morning was foggy, misty and the roads were just a little slick, but not bad enough to keep me at home and the departments from practice. There was very little to no wind and the conditions were just right for this burn. The 2 departments are small rural departments with not quite as many members as our town's department. They are small but mighty departments and when we as a rural community can work together and practice like this, it shows the respect and camaraderie that communities can have together. Anyway, I got lots of great shots and had a ton of fun with this bunch. I just want to say thank you very much to the Roland and Lowe Farm, Manitoba Fire Departments for asking me to come and photograph for you. It was my absolute pleasure and I look forward to doing it again sometime. Here is a sneak peek at some of the shots captured that day! Enjoy!

Dreaming......

Today, what a beautiful, almost spring like day. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and even the temperature was warmer. The snow is starting to melt. I hope we don't get more. Today, I was looking through my photos of my travels and came across these 2 lovely shots of flowers in Mexico. So, I am dreaming I am there! But unfortunately its only in my mind! Someday soon, I will be on my way, somewhere and it can't be soon enough!

Thoughts for today........

My thought for today is, I wish I was here where this photo was taken! Yes, I know, I have said this before, but really, I would LOVE to go back there! It was by far, one of the BEST vacations we have ever taken! For those of you who don't me very well, or maybe those of you who do know me well, don't know this about me. One of my dreams that I am eventually going to fulfill in my life, is to travel the world! Right now, today, I am just armchair travelling, but I know in the next couple years, another vacation is going to happen! But for today, I will just look at my photos of previous trips taken, and long for the day when I am planning another trip, and then will be boarding a plane to some foreign destination! Can't wait!

Baby H.

Well, this was a treat for me! One of my closest and dearest friends had this darling little girl about a week before this photo op. I was blessed beyond words to be able to photograph this beauty! I haven't done much in the way of newborn, baby, or childrens photography so, I am so thankful to have had this opportunity to practice and be blessed by this family in the way of taking her pictures! Little Miss H was such a perfect model this day. She just laid there and let us take lots of pictures. Thanks again K so much, for allowing me to do this for you. I hope you enjoy the pictures as I had so much fun taking them! God bless!

Projects

Hey! I entered a post a while back called Reaction, PRICELESS. This was regarding a Christmas gift for our Fire Chief here in our town. The gift was a book that I designed and gathered all the material for, took many of the photos within and put together as a gift for him. The pictures shown below are of the front and back cover. It was a lot of work, which occupied a lot of my time, but boy, was it well worth it. His reaction was like I said, priceless and I was absolutely blessed by his response! :)

But now, I am working on yet another project for our fire department. A website. Our own website! It is coming along quite nicely and I am pretty happy with it. My sister has been helping me with it a bit as she has put together a website before and I had not till this point. There are lots of new technical terms to learn and new techniques and programs to learn how to use. Thankfully she has been able to help me with it or it would take much longer than it has. I am pretty excited for the way the site has come together thus far and all the info we have compiled to enter onto it. Also, all the neat pictures for the history section and all the portraits of our firefighting personnel all look so cool on the backgrounds we have chosen and other graphics we are using. It looks pretty neat! I will keep you posted on the progress of our site and once it all complete and all up and running, will attach the link!

Anyway, enjoy the pics below and have a great day! Be back soon!

My thoughts today......

My thoughts for today, wish I was here where these pics were taken! Wish I was planning a trip to this locale! I can hardly wait to return!

Christmas Food

Christmas is my most favorite time of year. It seems that Christmas is the time when all your best and prettiest dishes come out and all of your favorite foods and goodies are made and eaten. I always do a lot of Christmas baking. I love baking anyway, but at Christmas time I make the things I only make at Christmas time. This year my sister and I baked together. It was lots of fun. We got most of it done but I did some more after we baked as well. We always have lots of gatherings to go to and I usually take a plate of baking to each gathering. The first pic below is of my Christmas table. I hosted a gathering this year. It was Christmas eve for brunch with my Mom and her husband, my sister and brother in law and my hubby and I at our house. We don't have a large house, but its always nice and cozy. We had waffles, bacon, ham, fruit, bran muffins and juices and coffee for our brunch. It was yummy! The next pic is a sampling of all the baking that was done. Sour cream cutout cookies, 2 types of shortbread, jam tarts, butter tarts, white chocolate truffles and dark chocolate truffles. All goodies made by hand! Too good! The last pic is of our afternoon snacks. My Mom made this amazing cream cheese and salsa dip so we had that with tortilla chips, baking and other snacks. All in all it was a good Christmas full of good food, good times and lots of love! Hope you all had a great Christmas as well.