the blog

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souvenirs to cherish for always

Welcome to the blog! 

posts as far back as 2009

I hope you enjoy perusing stories and images from the last several years. It is well saturated with animal and travel photos. The blog was a passion of mine for quite some time but in 2016 I took a break. Glad to finally be back!

pets + photography … what’s not to love??

  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what the hey I’m doing with my life. Not all the deep thoughts like “why the heck did I get a HISTORY degree if I want to do art?” or “why exactly do I live...

pets, photography and 102 degrees in June?

I am in the midst of a whirlwind few weeks of photography that apparently now consists of 102 degree temps in the first week of June followed by 85 degrees the very next day followed by 60s after...

Rice Family!

I posted a few weeks ago about a lovely, lovely 1 year old guy who was just a ham at a recent photo shoot. Even though his parents said he was more crabby than usual, I wouldn’t have guessed that!...

1 year anniversary!

It was a year ago this weekend that I was fortunate enough to bring two lil girls into my life … Nope - not kids. But sometimes they whine like them! They are my kitties. They have brought a lot of...

this little one year old is such a cutie pie!!

I’m on the run but had to share some of what has consumed the last few hours of my life …  editing photos of this excellent family. There are so many cute ones of these folks! Here are few of...

friday, at last!

While this week flew by and I can’t believe the weekend is already here, I also can’t say I’m bummed about that. I was suuuper busy this week (which was fun!!) but holy buckets - I’m pooped!! Just...

crazy cat lady? maybe.

I checked, this will be my 5th post about cats in the last month. As the title asks, does this make me a crazy cat lady? Maybe. As I’ve always said I love dogs - they are man’s best friend after all...

need to cool down?

It is a stinkin warm day in The Cities! I was sitting here trying to will myself to create a witty blog post with photos from last weekend and I just.can’t.do.it. It’s too hot with no wind movement...

happy may!

This week has been quite busy!! I can’t believe it’s already THURSDAY!? I am suuuper excited for my weekend and really hope the weather up north is BEAUTIFUL. I am currently in TX for work but will...

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