As many of you know, I love textures and I was inspired by this beautiful gnarly tree that I had seen out in the woods on a shoot.  I love when the environment has such an impact on what’s around it and can create thought, emotion, and feeling . . .

I love when I get unexpected gifts or just because notes. Days when you feel especially down are in need of cheering up, and my thoughtful husband brought me these beautiful pink flowers a few weeks ago. They were not open when he gave them to me but are adorable and cheery now, and I smile every time I look at them 🙂

I had a 9 hour shoot on Sunday for a new website concept . . . more details later.
Aside from 95 degrees and what felt like 100% humidity, I love doing shoots for artistic projects 🙂 . . . we captured a lot of textures and covered a lot of ground. Here are a few textures and images I especially liked from the day:

Ever since I knew about Sarah Palin (when she was running for governor of Alaska) I thought she looked like Tina Faye from SNL, and now that it’s official and she is running for Vice President of the United States, she is more widely known. Check out this SNL skit!

Last night, Gary and I went to see our friends’ new adorable baby girl. The past couple of years we have been going to friends weddings . . . and now as a few years have passed, we are starting the baby showers and birth’s part of our lives. We have been following friends with a personal blog of their twins and it doesn’t take them long to grow up before your eyes!

Some other friends of ours lost their dog a couple of weeks ago not long after they got their new puppy. One day she was ok, fell ill and died that day.

Times like these make you stop and think of the purpose of life and what happens after death. As long as we all do our best to be happy and make others happy – put the important things in life first and life life to the fullest, what more can we ask for?

Gary’s Grandad is going to have surgery for a lump that was found in his lung and you never know what can go wrong. Please pray for Gary’s grandad if you know him or not for a good surgery and a fast healing process. We appreciate the thoughts and prayers.

Love,
~Sue-Leigh

On Monday and Tuesday, I was in Greensboro for a few reasons, one of which is a shoot I will post about later 🙂 Here is a yummy door I found in Old Salem!

Wow! August has evidently snuck upon me, and I just noticed that I haven’t blogged since, well July. So here is my first post for August, saying that I will be posting . . . for August, but not now . . . soon!

I’m in Greensboro right now, after waking up at 5:00am + snooze = 5:10am and an almost 2 hour drive – and tomorrow I have to get up at 3:00am (even worse) + wake-up call for 3:15am, but I should be up before then.

A few stories to post, photos to share, and Monster energy drinks (mine! all mine! I won’t share!) of the Loca Mocah Variety *in hopes I can find some* . . . wink! 😉

well, drop me an e-mail if I haven’t heard from you in a while, or leave a comment 🙂

Cheers!

A quick video of Pixel in his walk about ball I took a few days ago . . .

This is neat, you could stick your head in this triangle of mirrors and see what you would look like in a kaleidescope:

We had Chinese food for dinner tonight . . . I opened up my fortune cookie and got an odd and pretty much untrue fact about myself – but what I thought was funny was that my fortune was missing a 6th number in the lotto number 6 numbers and everyone else had 6: