Well hello everyone! I was just posting on my Musings blog when I looked over at the link for this one and almost cried out loud at seeing it's been a YEAR since I last posted here! It certainly isn't for a lack of creativity. I can only blame it on blogging laziness.

As I don't know where my little flash drive has gone to I thought I'd put up a picture of one of my most beautiful creations hands down. My oldest daughter. We were at the park one day, just playing around, and I was having a good time with the camera. She was looking at her feet in the river when I decided to try a bit of a close up, and immediately fell in love with what I captured.


I have no problem proclaiming to the world she is absolutely beautiful, though she own't admit it. I love the line of her eyebrows over her closed lids, the subtle smile on her face, and the way her hair is haphazardly flying about. It's almost as though we caught her in some private memory, and if we would only ask she might tell us of some secret something.

How About a Few More Pictures

Are you thinking, "Hmm," with the first picture? :) I wouldn't blame you. I fell in love with it, though. It's the inside of one of my roses. Isn't the color fantastic?

Here's another one of my "favorite" roses while in full bloom.

I love LOVE LOVE my lilies, even if the color never looks as good in pictures as they do in person.


I caught a picture of this little guy on one of my rosebushes this morning.

A cluster of the Monet roses. Just beautiful!

I absolutely love the color of this rose!

What a way to end this presentation, right?

First Roses of Spring

It's Springtime, and in case you haven't figured it out before, I'm deeply in love with every brightly colored flower out there! Among my favorites are - as I've mentioned tons before - ROSES!!! I adore them. I have several planted in my yard, but hope to one day have even more.

I thought this morning I'd share with you the first few blooms to come out of my roses, followed by one that's not a rose, but still very pretty. I wanted to capture the last one before they all disappeared. These are only three of my roses, but you can hopefully see why they make me so very happy.

This was originally supposed to be a black rose, but I still love how rosy red it is. Out of all my rosebuses it always grows the biggest (which can make getting out of the car a little prickly, but we live with it!).

I received this one for mother's day a few years ago, and stands as my favorite. No matter how many pictures I take of these incredibly colorful blossoms, they never look as good as the real thing. From the time they first bloom until the last petal falls, the colors on this rose constantly change.

This is one of the first rosebushes I planted in our yard. Known as the Monet Rose, the blossoms are rarely big, but the soft color more than makes up for what it lacks in size.

This is my Bleeding Heart, one of the first things to bring color to my yard in the Spring. The pink is a little faded, but still such a beautiful sight to behold.

Monet Rose

I thought we could use a bit of color during the winter season. Well, winter for me here in Utah. I had a good time playing with my camera and taking pictures of some of my roses this summer. This is one of my favorites, and one of the first rosebushes I ever planted.

Salt Lake Temple at Christmas