Flower Girls

It was back to the wildflowers with my camera

last Sunday where I enlisted

BEST FRIENDS

Sarah and Susie to pose for me.

I wanted to try photographing

older gals in the beautiful flowers that

line our walking path.

Sarah and Susie LOVE taking LOTS of pictures,

so they

JUMPED at the chance to model...

Even though it was 92-degrees

and HUMID!

I usually shoot portraits on cloudy days

to avoid the harsh shadows.

 DARN...the sun kept popping out

but looked pretty on Sarah's

hair in this photo:

Susie's blue eyes were dreamy...

And you can't even tell...

The girls were sweating...

and swearing over the prickly plants.

I kept telling them, they could

suffer for beauty...hee hee!

They were certainly

BEAUTIFUL...

BEST FRIENDS...

frolicking through the flowers.

So happy to walk life's path

TOGETHER.

The pictures turned out so nice,

I was thrilled when my daughter Lindsay

came home this week from her college town.

I MADE her be my model.

"Wear this pretty off-the-shoulder purple top," I said.

"Mom, that has a big pesto stain on it," she protested.

It was bright sunshine....UGH!

So for the first time, I used a large reflector

which is essentially like bouncing

the molten sun off a mirror into your eyes.

"STOP burning my eyes with that dang thing!" she complained.

"Try that torture through a noon live shot on television," I said.

I remember wanting to stop my live report and yell at

the photographer,

"GET THAT DAMN REFLECTOR OUT OF MY EYES!!!!"

But it does create beautiful light:

I would have had more pretty pictures of

Lindsay, but in half of them the purple top

had a hangup over her right breastly

that her photographer mom did

not notice:

But it did hide the pesto stain.

After taking these lovely photos,

imagine my horror when I walked the

path and a man manning a monster mower

was CHOPPING DOWN ALL

the wildflowers!!!!!!!

Evidently, the township thought they were

WEEDS.

I'm SOOOOOOOOO sad!

But glad I captured my sweet daughter...

Just in time!