Her Last Evening at Home...

Parrish is leaving tomorrow to go back to school in Hawaii, so we had to have another portrait session tonight. We started in Kingston Springs, in an empty field...

I'll share the ones from downtown in a few days.

Project Squirrel Proof

Well, since our last effort to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeder was an utter--though entertaining--failure, Kelly decided to try something else. He took a piece of steel rod, and filed it to hang the feeder from. It's long enough that the squirrels cannot reach the feeder while still touching the post. It seems we have finally out-smarted the squirrels!

Aleah + Skye

Here are a few more from Thursday morning. This is Aleah and Skye...

Another Amazing Sunset

I captured this on the drive home from Nashville this evening. Isn't it glorious?

Vintage Betsy Johnson

This is Parrish's favorite dress, from Betsy Johnson's Vintage Collection. Betsy is Parrish's favorite designer, and she was absolutely thrilled to find this darling dress in a second-hand store with the original tags still on it. She got it for a steal! We shopped everywhere for the perfect shoes, but couldn't find what we were looking for. We finally gave up and she wore my Kenneth Coles. I made the headband for her.

So this morning, we met up with Rebekah, Aleah, and Skye, and drove down to my favorite neighborhood in Franklin--Westhaven. It was the perfect spot for this session. Unfortunately, it was miserably hot! We lasted about an hour and a half before giving into the heat, and deciding to go to lunch.

Just as we were about to leave, Rebekah discovered the battery in her van was dead! If I had driven my car instead of Parrish driving hers, we would have been fine, as I have two sets of jumper cables in my truck. But Parrish didn't have any. A very kind man coming home from his morning walk knocked on several doors to try and find us a set of cables, but no one who was home had any. We finally drove to Wal-mart in Parrish's car and bought a set. But first we had lunch at Genghis Grill. Love that place! (Ran into Zach while I was there, too.)

Fortunately, Rebekah's van started right up with a little jump from Parrish, and we all headed home to our air conditioning and Photoshop!

Here's the first set of images from this morning...

Wordless Wednesday

Porch Kitty

During these hot summer days, the cats prefer to lounge on the porch rather than inside with the air conditioning. But it's too hot even for them in the sun. Isn't it bizarre the positions cats will sleep in?