Fireworks and Flowers

We actually ended up going to see some fireworks the same night I said that we were (probably) not...I was kind of surprised that we went. But, we didn't stop there, Heather and I ended up going to see some more on the 4th at the beach (which, in my opinion is so much fun!!). I got to take some fairly good pictures of the fireworks on the first night. Here's a couple of the better shots.

And I can't help but share some (kinda) recent pictures of my favorite subject...flowers!!! These were taken earlier this summer.

(Don't you love blue and yellow together??)

Happy Fourth!!

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!

A day early because we'll be gone to the park with my church on Sunday. What are you all doing (besides those of you who go to my church)??? Is anyone going to see fire works? I don't think we'll be going to see any, but who knows...:)

These last two pictures are of the Memorial Day parade, but I still thought I'd share them. The love the Great Dane!

Kitten Pictures

These flowers are pretty, tiny and delicate!
I thought I share one with you before I leave for LA again.

Life Action 2

We are still alive and at Life Action! Well, I'm not there right now, I am home taking a day off.
So how are you all doing after the storm on Friday night? Our house is fine, we didn't even loose our power. But while I was safely at home Heather was at LA. Their blob tower has fallen, and broken, the dock was partly disabled, and a big tree fell across the road. Not only that, but the electricity went out, and it still out to this moment (which isn't very good because we have many summer staff plus 27 families.). They are running on several generators, and praying that the electricity will come on tomorrow.

Now for some pictures, just a few.This is home sweet home for us housekeepers...the laundry room! :)

The Blob (before the storm)
Everyone loves the blob, it is a big highlight.

Lily pads! These are in the pond that is in front of the lodge. I love the reflections!

Sunsets! I love them so much, because as I said before, we hardly ever see them from our house...

not to mention they are twice as pretty on a lake!

Life Action

This past week and for the next 7 weeks Heather and I are doing housekeeping at Life Action for Family Camp. We go to the camp on Monday mornings and stay there until Saturday afternoon with one afternoon/evening to come home and rest during the week. We mainly clean bathrooms and clean up after meals. It definitely keeps us busy! Here is a picture of the lake after sunset that the camp is on.So, that is all. Hope you all are enjoying your summer so far!

Flowers After Rain

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
What you have caught on film is captured to last...
it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

-AS

More Pictures of Peru

First I'd like to say, to those of you who gave me suggestions for a new blog name, THANK YOU!!! I had a very hard time choosing which one it was going to be, so hard in fact, that I did the "pick it out of a hat" thing. I, as you can see, picked "Looking Through My Lens". I hope you don't mind, but I actually changed it a bit, to "A Look...". Thank you so much for your ideas, I really like this title better then my first one. :)

Second, I thought you should see some more pictures from Peru. Sooo, here are a few random pictures from the "million" that we have. Enjoy! (Note: I am not sure if these pictures were taken by Mom/me or from someone else who went on the trip. We have all the pictures from everyone mixed together. So therefore, this post is "a look through many peoples lenses".)

::The mountain that we saw everyday::
This is the mountain that you could see when you stood in camp looking towards the entrance. This is also the mountain that we climbed! :)

::One of the towns we past through to get to Trujillo ::
(I believe anyway, it could be Trujillo, I can't remember)

::Working on the wall::
This is what we went to do along with other smaller things.

::Working on the walkway and flowerbeds::
One of the girls/ladies projects was to weed the flower beds and plant some new flowers in it. :)

::View of the mountains::
I think Mom took this picture while we were climbing the mountain

::Taxi rides::
One of my most interesting memories of Peru was the one night coming home from the Youth Meeting at the Stilwells church. There were six of us girls stuffed into a taxi (one up front and five in the back), which would have been exciting in normal traffic (normal for them I mean, which is getting to front even if you have to drive between two cars with only an inch between you and the other cars...), but this taxi driver and the other one that was driving with some of the boys decided to RACE!! There were several times I was certain we'd rash, but yes, it was very exciting in that very insane kind of way. :)

::The ruins that were a couple miles (I'm guessing) from the camp::
On the last day that we were in Peru we were able to go see some ruin sites. They were pretty neat.

::An overview of many of the people working::
Top right, guys laying bricks. Top left guys brushing off bricks. Bottom right, guys/girls sifting out stones from sand. Bottom left, making mortar.
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For anyone who wants to see more pictures of the wedding that I helped with you can go to my Mom's blog HERE.

I Need Your Help!

As the title says, I need your help! I was thinking that I desperately need a new title for my blog...I know you all agree. Because I love photography, and I usually only post pictures, I thought I should give it a "photographyish"/"cameraish" name.

But as you can see, I am NOT good at making up names/titles, so therefore I am asking for your help in thinking some up. I would love to hear what you think...:) And, who knows, the title you thought up might just be the one I really like!

This past Saturday I was able to help Mom take pictures for a wedding. It was pretty neat being the "assistant photographer". I had fun taking pictures on the side:). Here is a picture of one that I took (since I wasn't the main photographer I tried to get pictures that Mom wouldn't have time to get, so I got many of the flowers).

Blue

Since blue is such a pretty color, I thought I'd go around the house and take a picture of all the blue things that I could find.

The first thing I saw was this blue vase in the kitchen

After taking the picture of the vase Mom pointed out that there was a blue jay outside, so I took a picture because, of course, a blue jay is BLUE too!

A card we got in the mail a few days ago :)

Books are wonderful aren't they??? Especially when they're blue!

Water bottle

Some things I found on my desk. My notebook, bracelet, flashlight and pen

Pottery that holds a votive candle

And a candle