Tonight I got to photograph the Phoenix Style Collective/Arizona Blogger Conference. And now I am home editing the photos.
Today was so busy. I started out the day with my friend Jennifer - we went to Aster House, the Valley of the Sunflowers, Jobot and the state capitol for an event about legislation that particularly affects women. At the Valley of the Sunflowers, Jennifer helped out by thinning the sunflowers out. I kinda didn't help out and instead went around putting sunflower transplants in coffee cups to take home and put in my garden. In this cell phone pic, I am sitting outside at Aster House on their back patio.
After all that, I came home to get ready for photographing the blogger conference.
I wanted to stay longer tonight at the conference, but I had go home to irrigate - my dad has passed away - but when he was alive, he planted a hundred trees at this house. I just went outside to turn the water in and while I was out I heard the Great Horned Owls that live in the trees around here - there are at least three of them; I've seen three at once - but from the noise they make at night, I think there are probably more.
Outside the air is so lovely and I am so tired and also a little sad I can't be in 3 or 4 places at once. Now that I am home from the AZ Blogger Conference and I've done the irrigation, I've considered going back out since tonight is my friend Amy's birthday party, my friend Suzie's fundraiser for Aids/LifeCycle and my friend-bride Heather's book club - and this month was poetry month and I was going to bring Mary Oliver poems to contribute, because I love her work. But I guess I will be staying in, because I am more than a little exhausted, even though today and tonight were really, really, really fun.
Here's a photo that Courtney McEntire took of me at the event tonight. Thanks Courtney!
