The River Trip

    To celebrate spring, my family and I ate a lovely lunch by the river. Naturally pictures resulted.
   
   

Above photos: scenery out the car windows

My sister by the water

This was not captured altogether well. It was too far away. But if I could I would have shown how mysterious those trees in the shadows looked, as though a party of Merry Men might be stealing through their distant depths.  

  Yay! More scenery!

Tons of willows grow on the banks. Good place to play with your shadow.

I love this one. Hopefully it's distinguishable as the branches of a willow.

And I really love this one. I wanted to capture the color the branches are when they're about to burst into life.

This looks just like a story. It gave me the idea for the next couple of photos . . .

This was an enormous and very handsome table-shaped stone near the place where we ate. It's not the kind of prop you get every day, so of course use must be made of it. The beautiful blanket is a present I gave Mother for her birthday, and with its pattern it is very like a royal velvet cloak.

With that in mind, my imagination ran wild. I recalled the stories I'd read about King Arthur and his knights, and how when someone went questing, they would always find wierd things in the woods; unexplained and mysterious signs that something was afoot. So what happened here? Did a fairy leave her cloak behind? Did someone slumber here? Is the blanket/royal garment a gift for the questing knight who discovers it?

Nice to have fairy tales waiting for us behind the commonplace.

 With my Bible, 'cause it looks cool.

A parting glimpse of the aspens.

Chalk

  This week I discovered that I like drawing with chalk.  And then I discovered that I like taking pictures of chalk too :)

  The first picture is a quote from the movie Robin Hood (not the cartoon version.)  It means never give up and never stop trying.  The second picture is obviously the Avengers symbol.  I can't wait for the movie to come out!

  That's all for today.  Have a lovely week!

  -Marissa

Nice Girls in the Suburbs

  So here's the first pictures of 2012.  There are many more to come.  I'm working on plans for some more photo shoots with other really awesome people.  Like I've said before you'll have to excuse our slowness.  Hopefully you enjoy this and I hope they are a good start to the new year.