Sophie

My pretty girl, she loves to pose for the camera :)

finally...

I was finally able to pick up a pencil again and actually sit down for a quick couple of hours to draw something. It's been about 5 years or so and I'm starting to regret letting the hobby go. There's soo many things that bug me about this drawing (the terrible feet in particular! I just gave up after a while...for shame.) but I'm cutting myself some slack since I'm only just getting back into it. I want to keep going and it will be interesting for me to look back on my progress later on. So I'm posting this even though I'd rather stash it away, just to document my progression as I get more practice.

beautiful souls.

Two beautiful souls.

It's a losing battle trying to control my cat's weight issues; she's been dealing with them well before I started taking care of her. Regardless, she's a sweetheart. And so is my awesome nephew above, love them so much!

Spencer

The holidays have been so good to me this year; I've overindulged and regretted nothing. Here's my handsome man Spencer, he's got a clouded eye and a floppy tail from a previous and more difficult life but has the best spirit I've ever seen. Love this guy!

Headache.

There's nothing more conducive to finding relief from a headache than a camera being shoved in your face (note the sarcasm here).

He's a good sport about it though, which is why I love him.

Testing, testing...

I finally got around to buying a manual flash for my camera. I'm just playing around and testing it out right now, and am already kicking myself for not getting one sooner. No longer am I limited by the depressing lack of sunlight in the winter. This changes everything!

Cows of Sarasota

Well, it's been ages since I've logged on to this site. I completely give up on the 365 project. Chalking it up to a great learning experience and moving on.

I had the pleasure of spending some time in Sarasota, Florida a couple months ago and fell in love with the wide variety of animals. Seemingly unending species of birds were everywhere; we were able to swim in the ocean and float just a few feet away from giant pelicans (well, I think they're giant, they are probably completely normal in size). Cows were usually accompanied by small white birds, but the birds took flight each time I approached so I wasn't able to get a shot with them included.