Swimming

If you can't tell, the park is my favorite place to take photos.

Garden

I had to go to Fort Collins for a gallery meeting tonight. I got home starving, and we needed to go grocery shopping. I didn't want fast food, and we had some produce. I cooked some tomatoes off of my plant, threw in some zucchini from Sheridan, white wine and spices. It made a killer sauce that I put over some spaghetti. Only took 10 minutes and tasted wonderful! Maybe Matt's intuitive cooking skills are rubbing off on me.

Dabbling

 

Fire

On the way home from Sheridan, we saw this grass fire outside of Casper. It was moving pretty quick when we went by.

Baby Shower

I went up to Sheridan for a fun three-day weekend with Deb (Matt's mom) for Carrie's (Matt's sister) baby shower. We went to the spa, did some shopping and, of course, went to the baby shower. Despite the heat, it was really fun. I am lucky that I will have such great and welcoming in-laws! Good thing the shower was that weekend...Carrie had her baby (a boy named Jack) two weeks early on Labor Day!

Scar

I decided to take a photo of the thing I am most self-conscious about and put it on my blog. Odd, I know. I have this scar from a mountain bike accident I was in a couple years ago. Even though I had an ambulance ride and a trip to the ER, I escaped with only bumps, bruises and some serious road rash. While I don't like this ugly thing, it always reminds me to be grateful for everyday and how lucky I am that all I have from that accident are some scars.

Wedding Dress

I picked out a wedding dress! My mom and I went to two more dress shops today, and I showed her my favorite dress. It was also her favorite, and my bridesmaids loved it too. I took the plunge and bought it! I took this picture in a Fort Collins dress shop.

Screw

I was rear-ended awhile ago. I have been trying to see how long it will take before this screw that was embedded in my bumper from the other car falls out.

Heron

I finally got some good photos of the heron-type birds in the park. I snuck up on a couple of them and they didn't see me until I had some great up-close shots.

Sludge

The water around the edges of the park are looking a little swirly and green.

Whitetail

As we were leaving the mountains, we spotted a couple whitetail buck in velvet. I got a couple pictures as they they took off into the brush.

Rainbow

Despite the weather forecast, we still went camping in Fox Park. We have the coolest site in the world up there. It is up in the trees overlooking a beautiful creek, with only a campfire ring to mark it. No one else around either, which is the only way to camp in my opinion. We had a small thunderstorm roll through, but it left the most beautiful, full, double-rainbow I have ever seen in my life. I couldn't get a photo of all of it since it was so big, but here is the end of it. I have never seen a rainbow where it hit the ground before. I kept telling Matt to go look for the pot of gold, but no such luck. :-)

Prints

I can't wait until we move into a house and can get one of these (a dog, that is)! Oh, and it has been rainy and muddy lately.

M

This is right outside my door at the YMCA and somehow I have never noticed it before.

Flap

Rabbit

Much cuter picture of a rabbit than the one earlier this week. :-)

Hawk

As I was walking into work, I ran smack into this hawk enjoying a bunny he must have just caught. He was right outside my car and didn't seem too fazed at all the people walking into work. Sorry the quality isn't great, I took this with my iPad.

Sheep

Is it wrong to be so excited about a new painting when I  only have the composition and the sketch done?

Mountains

We went for a drive outside Laramie so Matt could play with a new gun and I could take some pretty photos. I got this one of the grass. One good thing about this blog is it has made me see outside my usual photo subject boundaries.

Moon

Park

Whenever I am lost for inspiration, I am glad I have the park so close by.

Clouds

The more photos I take, the less afraid I am to try something different. I get a lot more cool ideas too.

Trapped

I used to let Stash out on the porch, until she saw a robin and took off after it. Now, she is stuck inside and whines about it.

Storms

The afternoon thunderstorms make for pretty sunsets.

Salad

I love the produce in late summer! I made a salad with red lettuce from the farmer's market, garden tomato and chives, walnuts, feta, bacon, raspberry balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Oh man, was it good.

Cool day

I had a fun and busy Saturday! I went to the farmer's market, went to FoCo for lunch with Ruby and Sandi (my old co-workers and friends), and came back to a fair that Rachel was working at. I helped her tear down her booth and was pretty tired that night. It was a good day. Here is Rachel selling her fair-trade schwag.

Painting

I really have been an art fool lately, I just wrapped up my Fox Park paining. So there, I did a landscape!

Chairs

Legs of our camp chairs that live on the back porch.

Tomatoes

My poor tomatoes are covered with bruises from the hail, but a couple of them are almost ready to pluck. Hopefully they are ok, despite the blemishes.

Sad

I went to the park and took some lovely photos on Monday and Tuesday. Unfortunately, I learned that my camera will take pictures and not tell me I have no memory card in the camera. So even though I took some good shots, I didn't record them. Grrr. So here is a photo of a sad corgi instead.