Day 33: Beauty with Bella

Bella and I generally spend our time together doing each others make up. Bella poses for the camera as she sorts out her brushes in preparation for our favorite activity

Day 32: Memory

This is my Guide freshman, Kyle, trying his hardest not to pick up the same tree for the 4th time...

Day 31: Robin was right

I don't have a photo for today... day 6

Day 30: "What will tomorrow bring?" The pundits query.

This photo is from Follies callbacks where in the amazing michelle kicks everybody's ass in hilarity. Riley was good too.

Day 29: Oh My Goodness Why Cant I Take A Photo Every Day

So this makes my fifth day of no photo. I kinda suck. I have decided to just tack the days on at the end of the year. Sorry internet! Don't take this as me not loving you!

Day 28: Sweet Cheryl

This photo is of my lovely friend Cheryl from our delightful foray into day drinking at a wine tour at 10 am this Saturday morning. Yes, wine is just as delicious before noon. maybe more so.

Day 27: Final Dress

For my last day of flooding this blog with pictures from Ester I figured I would leave you with this jubilant little bit from the finale. The show was great fun to watch and photographing it was a bit of an addictive habit. Thanks to the awesome cast for putting up with me and my incessant photography.

Day 26: More Men That Are Manly

So I am playing catch up now, I apologize so going back to last thursday we have this very manly picture of the delightful Cameypants. I think its pretty funny.

Day 25: Paint It Out

Paint night last night with my awesome friend Raechel! Paint night is a wonderful little thing we do wherein I spend hours trying to paint something ridiculous, like for instance the face of my highschool friend Koki, and Raechel finds something random in a magazine and paints some adorale sketchy wall art in 10 minutes. Its good times.

Day 24: No Photo 2 Days In A Row

I've really got may failure face on now...

Day 23: No Photo

Blogging Fail

Day 22: Swordplay

This is yet another photo from the Theatre Company's production of Ester: For Such A Time As This, an original musical written by Mark Taylor. I just wish that there were none of the background bits and just our two sword fighting brothers in this photo.

Day 21: Manly Men

These men are very manly, don't doubt it.

Day 20: No Photo!

I took a couple of photos but nothing I was proud of so I wont trouble you! I apologize internet!

Day 19: The Perfect Murder

"How to commit the perfect murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle; the weapon melts away."

-The Lovely Bones

I can't see and icicle without thinking about that quote. Perhaps, I am a little homicidal. That small one could really do some damage. These icicles were coming of our rain barrel outside the laundry room until I destroyed them so nearby murderers would have to risk it with more conventional weapons

Day 18: Light my Candle

I am not huge fan of knick-knacks but one rather useless thing that sits on random shelves these days is this candle. This candle was one of many Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants homages I have around from my tight high school girl group days. I don't burn it much but, feeling nostalgic, I lit it tonight. It reminds me of the night we all had our candles together burning while we decorated our "Pants" and the piles of wax with little beads and sequins embedded that collected on the shelf where we burned them. That was probably one of the best sleepovers in the history of sleepovers. And one of my fondest memories. I miss that and I miss us.

Love you Amanda, Kahlyn, Katelyn, Kellia, Koki, and Priya. Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday and but lately it seems like a lifetime ago. We are basically grown-ups now. Isn't that insane?

Day 17: Public Service Announcement

One in 5 dogs are humiliated by their owners for entertainment. Instead of forcing your dog to do the robot, try petting him or taking him for a walk. The more you know (inspirational jingle)

This is Baxter. He is an adorable dancing machine. He is only a fraction as traumatized as he seems.

Day 16: Lazy Sunday

Today was one of those days where everything conspires and you simply don't want to get out of bed. So I didn't. I got up and ate lunch and a while later I got up and ate dinner. I did an exercise video when I was feeling particularly bad about my laziness, then I laid back down. I wish I could say I had a really awesome reason for never really starting today but I don't. I was feeling down, the weather was bad, I had a bit of a cold but it was really nothing. At 11:30 tonight I decided that I should least take a blog photo so I got out the camera and took this (and 80 very ugly photos of my voluntarily bedridden self)

Don't you wish this was a blog about photography like it purports? It would be if I knew the first thing about it.

Day 15: Practice Practice

Spent the majority of my saturday, 8 am to 7 pm (roughly), and the theatre so naturally my photo must come from there. Because My major accomplishment was this "tent". I also was forced by pride to showcase it, though it is most certainly not done. Also, Harmony is pretty.

Day 14: Couch Time

Stephanie and I made an ugly couch kinda pretty today! We also made it super comfy!

Day 13: No Photo, Just Rambling

So today is the first official no photo day. I could lie to you and post some old nondescript photo and pretend I took it today but I won't, I will just own that today I felt basically no urge to photograph anything. I did watch (500) Days of Summer with my sister and have extreme pangs of jealousy toward people who can see images like that in their heads and can then figure out a way to make those things happen on a screen. Thats really what I want to do, not make films** but create tangible representations of what is going on in my head, photos, paintings,sets, movies, anything. I want to create, truly create and share things with people through those creations. I want to start conversations.

The movie sparked my sister and I to have one of those rare sisterly conversations. It was pleasant and I felt that despite our very different personalities and goals we were connected in way that we usually are not. It wasn't about the movie, it was about life and love and expectations and I know I can't attribute the entire conversation to our movie watching experience but I do feel like it helped as along, it forged a bond in a way that only art can.

I know that right now I don't really create art with much regularity. I take pictures, I paint on canvases, I build sets, I portray characters on stage, I design floral arrangements but most of these endeavors never reach a level that I consider close to art. Every now and then I get lost in these endeavors and transcend outside of myself and I feel like maybe I am creating really art, capturing something real and maybe a little profound.

You there you are part apology part straight up self-important blogging. Tomorrow, I promise to give you a photo.

**This is kind of a lie. I would love to make films, or help make films, but I would also love to tour the country in a baller indie band, or score a role on broadway, or write a really good book. I would love to do many things, few of which are realistic, palpable goals.

Day 12: What It Takes To Be Queen

Something weird is going on with my flash (don't get me started, don't even get me started) So today i was going all sports mode all the time. The the work lights at the theatre are kinda hard to deal with but I really loved the way this flash-less photo came out. the lighting effect is surprisingly pleasant I feel. I also just kind of love the poses.

Day 11: Eleventh Hour Tail-Wagger

So I completely blew off taking pictures yesterday, it was rainy and i had to drive all day, photos weren't happening. So at 11:11 I realized I had to take something for the blog hence a very lastminute portrait of Boomer, my friend Cory's labradoodle. He's pretty adorable.

Day 10: Bed and Breakfast

My mother and I joke about turning it this old house, Great Uncle "Dudie's"(spelling, mom?) house, into rustic bed and breakfast. Until today, on a quest to photograph our small herd of cattle, I was unwilling to abandon my general fear of it collapsing around me and venture inside. Now I simply want to clean it out and haul in pretty friends and relatives for heavily staged photo shoots. I really love the vibrant wall paper and the hay stored in the next room. The cow pictures didn't stand a chance.

Day 9: Jack in the Country

Sory that title has almost nothing to do with this photo but rather was a piece of a conversation my mother and I had about how her dog is not really a country farm dog but rather he weekends in the country. I am also most certainly not a country dog so taking pictures on a farm is a challenge for me. Don't get me wrong, I love the outdoors. I simply prefer the paved outdoors with lovely little vegetative oasisses(spelling?). This picture is a bit of tractor action outside of my great grandfather's house.

Day 8: We All Scream For Ice Cream

Today's photo was taken at Pappa's Burgers in Fort Worth where thanks to my father's great love of children and giving them ice cream all my cousins enjoyed some creamy deliciousness. Caleb was particularly eager.

Day 7: Happy New Year

Sorry again for the late post! Internet is spotty out in the country and i simply couldnt get anything posted yesterday!

This photo was taken at the Mineral Wells First Baptist Church during the Seniors New Years Eve Game night. As you can see these folks raised quite a ruckus.