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A photo of our bride-to-be Jessica.
Today is her birthday! For fun, I was seeing how different filters look. The one used on this photo was called GAF 500. I like the warm cinematic look it gives this image of Jessica standing in front of the old Mill Avenue Bridge over Tempe Town Lake.
Happy Birthday Jessica! :)
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Here in Arizona, the valley, where I live, Summer has been ridiculously beautiful and mild and sweet. At least the first three weeks of June were more clement than I can ever remember. The cover of the Arizona Republic said it was the mildest June since 1913.
June 21st, the real first day of Summer, it seemed like it started getting warmer and I know today and last night were pretty suffocating, but tonight there was a dust storm around my house and the air has cooled off a bit. I'm hoping that we get an amazing Monsoon. Ten mile high clouds rising over the Superstitions and rain on the desert with that amazing rain-in-the desert-smell---creosote and ozone. For the cooler air it brings and for the amazing light + skies that rain + clouds make for photographs.
I went and took about a thousand sunflower photos early one (chilly) morning in early June. Here are a couple.
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We went to Tortilla Flats. It had been raining like crazy the days before and the river was flooded, so went to see all the water.
Christmas morning!
Birthday at Grannie's house. This photo frightened me as a kid---I thought my dad was catching fire!
Noah and his brothers. He's the one with hipster bolo tie. They were so skinny!
Daddy, always and I mean always, had a garden. So now I always try to have one too.
This one cracks me up. Who knows what I was so upset about?
He WON this Cadillac in 1963. He didn't buy it, he won it!!!!
We used to always go for drives to little Arizona towns (like Miami in this photo) and I would take photos with my 35 mm Canon film camera or my awesome little Nikon point and shoot.
This photo got scanned in with a lot of white space. But I'm posting it anyways.
So did this one. We went to a little ghost town called Eden in southern Arizona so many years ago.
What a cutie!
In Washington DC with my mom, my grandma, aunt, her daughter and a senator from my aunt's state of Arkansas.
I love this one.
We had just been to the Hearst Castle the day before this photo was taken and we were staying in some little town by the ocean---maybe called San Simeon--I don't remember---and we were just waiting outside the motel room on the bench under the trees.
I was so blessed to have him as my dad. I deeply, deeply, deeply miss him.
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