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!

july+august=weddings!

Last spring I graduated from college. This spring I received lots of wedding invitations. Ok - not LOTS but 3 for some of my most favoritest people from Iowa City. And these 3 seem to fall within 4...

the curse of the internet & much much more

Yikes! 2 weeks since I posted last. And I had ambitions of posting twice in 1 weeks. Psssh. Right. Guess this will have to do. I’ve been trying to rekindle my artsy fartsy roots lately because I’m...

the curse of the internet & much much more

Yikes! 2 weeks since I posted last. And I had ambitions of posting twice in 1 weeks. Psssh. Right. Guess this will have to do. I’ve been trying to rekindle my artsy fartsy roots lately because I’m...

years in the making

just as a warning, i feel a long post coming on... you might want a bathroom break now. Those of you who know me and my past photo projects might be familiar with the one so affectionately named,...

another update and a pretty sunset

Why hello! Happy Wednesday to everyone. So far the bummer of my week consists of getting a car wash on a bright sunny evening only to have my car rained on 12 hours later. I know. If that's the...

June 6th and 7th 2009

UPDATE UPDATE: exciting news around the Chocolate Moose Images hub {aka, my house} ... The weekend of June 6th and June 7th is going to be the first FREE CHOCOHOUND photo weekend. I'm suuuper...

weekend awaits

another week has come and gone. I am going out of town this weekend to spend some time in Iowa. Hope it's sunny everywhere because it's about darn time the weather started shaping up! a few thoughts...

new new new.

It has been 20 days since my last post. Yikes. I've just not felt in the mood to write. You know the feeling, the 'Hmm, i didn't do anything special today. Why would anyone else want to read about...

a kitty named Balloo

On Friday, while sitting at my desk catching up on the latest from some of my favorite photogs, it occurred to me that I really like the look of various blogs. I like the way images don't seem to...

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