Spring is upon us - lots of signs of it today for sure! First off - Spring Cleaning! We made our "deposit" up at the big consignment sale today - whew! We finally have a guest room back!
Outdoors is just bursting with signs of Spring (trust me our noses are telling us that - well, at least I thought so, more on that later!)... we cleaned out some of the garden beds in preparation for planting soon...
and the girls had fun digging up worms...
and finding flowers..
Rose was filling up the bird feeders...
while I snapped a few more pictures - our first forsynthia bloom...
Daffodils are popping up all over.... and then we came upon this lovely pair on the way to get Emily from school..
Yes, there really are two - look closely...
It always amazes me how much they blend into their surroundings...
and of course with Spring - comes spring weather... starting early this year are our spring storms. They rumbled through around 1am and we had both of the youngest up again... we were lucky... only losing a piece of siding... but up in Branson they were hit with a tornado...
Here's a link with pictures from the storms...
http://fox4kc.com/2012/02/29/pictures-branson-tornado-damage/?fb_ref=s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like&fb_source=home_multiline
Back home for photo assignments... last week's assignments were "lines" and "framing" and we received our prints of those last night (above)... this week's lesson - lighting.. whew! Hard enough to get the techniques right but then to get 3 little wiggly subjects in there.. even harder! Knowing this is our last prints that we'll get (we only have 1 more class but we won't get any prints from that one), I was hoping to get one with the girls..
These are just a few of my attempts for my side lighting pictures...
Gabby was not helping.. either was a little mishap with Nora
(a little background... a few nights ago, Nora had a bloody nose - figured it was allergies and everything, each day since she was saying her nose still hurt... again, thinking it was allergies, she's been dribbly, etc..) well, as we're taking pictures, she sneezes and out pops a bead... yup, a lovely purple pony bead! What?!
Yup, leave it to Nora to put a bead in her nose! Which of course explains the bloody nose the other day and her nose still hurting her - you would think it would have dawned on her to tell me about it the other night..
After that, we moved onto outside to try my other assignment - "back lighting"...
Does lighting the "rear" count as "back" lighting? Ha!
