Winter in Buffalo, NY is cold and white. This is Niagara Falls, very cold, very icy, with a rickety fence to keep you from sliding under the metal railing and cascading down into the falls. This is one of my favorite times to see the falls, there are few tourists and there is something about…

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Since its the new year I’ve been thinking about all the fun annual things that are soon to be here. One of the largest events of the year, and one of my favorites is The Hunt. We stuff an inhumane amount of plastic easter eggs with candy and prizes and send a ton of kiddos…

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I know you’re not supposed to lust…but seriously…Ethan Allen has captured my heart with this display. Bill and I visited Ethan Allen while we were waiting to close on our house back in March of 2010. I love Ethan Allen (sorry Martha, but they do compete for your place in my heart)…I do not however…

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In a few short days I will be at Imaging USA 2011, the mecca conference for photographers. Above is my good, dear friend Andrea from Ethan Avery Photography, we braved last year’s Imaging USA in Nashville together. Boy was it cold…that was when they had that big freeze and the water main broke down town……

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Yes, I was an Apple Employee once, no I do not want to fix your mac. I will however talk to you about their products, how to do things, and why I love them. It was one of my most interesting jobs, not quite what I expected, but definitely interesting. I interacted with ALL kinds…

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59 Diner, Photo Booths, Peep-Toe Flats, and diamonds they all relate in my book. This was the day Bill proposed to me, at 59 Diner, in a photo booth, while I was wearing my favorite black peep-toe flats, with a big diamond. I have a romantic love of photo booths so it was only fitting…

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Meet the cowboy chair. I’m told it was a wedding gift to my mother and father. It sat in my mom’s house for as long as I can remember. It was then passed back to my dad. Then to the old lake house. It now sits in our guest bedroom. Its one of my most…

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My dad is so great, he poses with all kinds of crazy wild life. This is from a few years back at one of our crawfish boils. Yes I eat crawfish. No I do not suck the heads. I really love this photo. I think I’ll title it “Moments Before Execution”. I love the water…

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In August-ish of 2009 I had gone to Buffalo, NY for my grandfather’s funeral, a week later my grandmother (other side of the family) passed away. A three day trip turned into almost three weeks. There was so much going on in my life during this time, so much sadness, so much loss. In the…

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To be fair, since I posted such an adorable yet embarrassing photo of my husband in last week’s The Photography Chronicles ~ 2, I thought I should post an equally embarrassing childhood photo of myself. I have to admit it was really hard to find, I was adorable (HA). But here you have it, yes…

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