Welcome 2014

Welcome Two Thousand Fourteen!

Pictured above was the last adventure for 2013. My Family and I took a Midwestern Ski Trip to Weston, MO. Yes, you did read that correctly. I said "midwestern ski trip" to Missouri. :)

Snow Creek Resort is a wonderful little place located in Weston, MO that is perfect for a weekend ski trip for a family of any size. It isn't a resort in the sense of week long visits to a lodge on a mountain side. But it is a great little mini vacation location when you don't have time to spend a week at a Mountain side resort in Colorado or Arizona or further away.

Twenty-Thirteen was a good year. It had many good points and is now part of the past. With that change in numbers from 2013 to 2014 comes a new beginning. With that new beginning also comes room for new adventures. That is the part I look forward to. Adventures are what life's journey is made of...we each have our own to experience and hopefully share. Some adventures are great successes and others we'd rather had not happened. They each make up who we become and help us discover what we want and where we want to be or where we want to go in the future.

May "twenty-fourteen" offer you many new adventures of the successful variety and may many more dreams come true!

Happy New Year!

Fall -- Autumn -- Changing of the Colors!

Autumn is my favorite season. The colors that appear are in such seeming contrast and change so rapidly that I barely have time to plan a photo trip! But the weather and the scenery is FABULOUS!
I am looking to do some fantastic shoots this season....and it is Family Portrait season as well.
Join me whenever you get the chance!
Have FUN!
Celebrate YOUR Life!
...and the PEOPLE in it!

People are the scenery of life's journey.

Have an AWESOME day!

Ren-Faire Time AGAIN!

YES! May is almost here! Actually this year I don't have to wait til May. 

The first weekend of the OKRF is April 28th and 29th! Yeah! 

I know some get tired of hearing about renaissance faires. This is one thing I enjoy outside of everything else and yet it incorporates all the things I love about life: people, friends, nature, fun, adventure, dressing up, etc.

Michelle makes the best corsets and outfits anywhere! You can wear them for steam punk events, ren-faires, comic cons, .....just AWESOME! And...SHE is the greatest person...sweet and remembers people and will talk to you any time. Not many shop owners as busy as her stay as sweet, upbeat and positive. She really enjoys what she does and it shows in her work and her personality.

 The Jolly Rogers are my favorite pirate group ever! I have to catch at least one show every now and then.... I try for one show for every day I am at faire but that doesn't always work out. Schedule conflicts happen. However, I do have their cds and can stop in and say hi now and then :D

OKRF wouldn't be the same without that scottish rogue that heckles and hassels ren-faire patrons all in good humor and fun to get you involved in the whole faire experience! He is sweet and jovial and makes the celtic corner a must visit! I look for him every visit to fair....

This photo is of a Eurasian Eagle Owl which you can see at the Royal Gauntlet: Birds of Prey show!
Meet the King's Master Falconer and his crew. The birds are an awesome site and the flights and educational experience are lasting memories meant for the entire family!

As this weekend draws near, I get more and more impatient! Come and join us!
See the castle website here: www.okcastle.com  for more information. The Castle is on facebook too! Find  Royal Gauntlet, Damsel in this Dress, and The Jolly Rogers on Facebook also!
If you happen to visit OKRF, leave a comment here...leave a comment even if you don't!

Side Tracked

Time tends to get away from us all at one time or another.

I tend to find myself easily sidetracked with alot of different interests. Maybe that is one reason my resolutions never come to pass. This year that is changing. I have managed to keep myself in the gym... yeah!! So far that particular goal is working out great. Maybe I am not looking forward to that possibility of "I told you so"-s from anyone who reads any of these posts.....

 My blog posts have fallen behind so this week I am playing catch-up and trying to get things back on track. I did a photo walk alone around Broken Arrow on Main Street and found a few photos to post hoping this would set me back onto the path I chose. My blogs have always been sporadic til 2012. I guess in a way maybe they still are...but at least this year there are more of them.

I have found a few subjects I didn't know were right in front of me like this lion-head. I know it looks like a door knocker....and I would love one of those!! But this is actually on the clock on Main Street in Broken Arrow by the Historical Museum. I loved this little surprise! So I thought I would share it here with you.

Small town walks .... and that walk called life.... still hold a few small yet very worthwhile surprises!

I say " Keep them coming!"