My New Web Page is Close to Going Live

I have been working my butt off, editing images, and working on the design of my new web site. I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and hoping to go live with it by next week sometime. I'm soooo excited. One of my dilemma's is the music. I really want it to feel like the imagery, but my musical taste varies from "The Sex Pistols" all the way to Frank Sinatra and every genre imbetween. If you have any good ideas or opinions about music on flash sites, I'd love for you to leave me a comment.

Here's a teaser screen capture.


We are also beyond past due for a blogger face lift. I have a friend who will hopefully be able to assist me with it since I'm no pro in dealing with HTML code.

Once the site is live, I will be posting some cool new services that I offer and perhaps be having some contest fun with prizes to be announced. Stay tuned.

Our New Year is off with a wild side

It feels too late to say "Happy New Year", and my New Year has started off as a wild one, literally. Our new cat recently discovered a flying squirrel in the house and had a skirmish with it. Being the animal lover that I am, I separated the two somehow, calmed my hysterical son and got him to bed assuring him that the squirrel was gone. Ha! I checked behind the washer where I had last seen this critter run to, and he was in fact gone. So I decided to watch the cat knowing his radar would be on the animals whereabouts. Sure enough these two bulgy little eyes were peering at me from atop my kitchen drapes. Of course this happened on a night when my husband was out of town, typical, but I figured that I could probably handle it better anyway. I was able to scoop this little creature into a mason jar on the first attempt (because he was behind drapes). I covered the jar with a box top and released the squirrel in my woods. He didn't appear to be hurt, and I felt relieved to have him out of my house. I later felt a sense of doom realizing that maybe I should not have let him go. We've had two incidents with rabid animals in the area in just two years. Those are the ones that we know about. Long story short, because my cat is indoors only and still just a kitten, he had not been vaccinated against the rabies virus. Rabies is highly transmittable through saliva and my cat had this guy in his mouth and played with him a bit as cats will do. After making phone calls to Pediatricians, our family doctor and finally the animal control center, I was told to vaccinate my cat IMMEDIATELY, and, to keep him in quarantine for at least a month. The scary part is that no one could tell me straight up that we were safe from having contracted the virus. My son even got scratched by our cat a day after the incident. So here we are on round two of rabies shots today with 3 more sessions to go. They are nothing like they used to be. The anticipatory anxiety and having to put my son through this was the worst of it all. Just a blink in life time to insure our safety. To add insult to injury, if you have one flying squirrel in your house, you've got the whole family too. We located a nesting spot for them on a top shelf in a built in closet. We are sealing up holes (a total joke in a 1897 house) and trying to find where they are coming in from. Next step is placing baited have a heart traps, and relocating them ten miles away. That's right, the little guy I rescued is probably back in my closet, munching on my cashmere sweaters and defecating at the same time. Yuck!!! Not to mention that they love to chew and can cause an electrical fire. I am over it already. I know some people actually have these as pets. I think I prefer to stick with a good mouser of a house cat. All I can say is that after doing some reading up on the fatal disease called rabies, and seeing some all to graphic images on the internet, that I'm going to cover my ass and get those suckers back in the wild where they belong ASAP!


Would you want this nocturnal guy stalking you in your own home?

Merry Christmas!

Sending wishes of Love, Laughter and Peace this holiday season.


One of my favorite angelic bridal portraits from 2007.

The Story of Christmas Pageant

Every year our church celebrates Christmas with a pageant put on by the Sunday School children. This was the first year that my son took part in it. He was wise man #3. He had one line and stage fright. We were so proud that he went through it all flawlessly and with a smile. One little boy (The Donkey) couldn't figure out what the fuss was all about and made no mistake of showing it. It was actually adorable. At one point he literally just walked down from the alter, until his parents reminded him of how important his role was.

Tis the Season

To be harried? Rhymes with married! Aha! Yes there are a lot of beautiful women out there who just might be secretly hoping for an engagement ring this Christmas. Be sure to bookmark this blog so that I can keep you posted as to when our new site launches (hopefully very early in January). I have tons of work to do in order to create this web page, and am pouring my heart into it. It's very exciting but I have to be patient to stay true to my vision and convey that to the rest of the world. No easy task, but thought provoking , which is exactly what I want my images to do.

Meanwhile, as Christmas is fast approaching, I am doing the usual house decorating. Most importantly, THE TREE. It's an on going joke that it takes this photographer days just to put lights on our tree. I have to constantly step back and squint to make sure that it is evenly lit. I suspect my years of doing still life and food photography have contributed to this attention to detail.

This years' tree is gorgeous. A 12' Blue Spruce that has a huge girth and bows right to the floor. We cut it down ourselves at Jones Family Farms in Shelton, Ct. They have great prices and gorgeous rolling hills, all planted with trees of many varieties. So many that it's hard to choose.

My Canon 5D is at the factory for repair , so I'm getting to know my back up camera again. Here are some picks of the day. The light was quite mysterious and it was so windy that I'm amazed that I managed to take any pictures, let alone pick out a tree. My husbands humor and quick sawing techniques is all that got us out of there before frostbite set in, but we all left smiling.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving has become a day of reflection for me. Am I on the right course? Do I live in the moment and truly appreciate the generosity of others, in their time, knowledge and spirit?

I feel extremely grateful for all the wonderful people in my life, and strive to express that gratitude whenever I can. It's so easy to get caught up in our own life plans and forget to be simply courteous to our own loved ones. It's fascinating that we can be polite, forgiving and generous to complete strangers and at the same time live with anger, resentments or complete disregard to those we really love.

For me, making a gratitude list is always good. It helps me to stay in the moment and appreciate all that I have accomplished, and all of the wonderful gifts and opportunities this life affords me. I urge anyone to try it. It's a good practice that leads to feeling that life is a rich and wonderful experience.

My thoughts and prayers go out to my dear friends, The Mendelssohn's. Adele has been fighting pancreatic cancer for some time now and she passed on Tuesday. I'll miss her "Happy Thanksgiving" phone call today. Adele selflessly helped many people in her time here and made us all better people. I am grateful to have had her in my life.

Wishing everyone a joyous, peaceful Thanksgiving.

Lifestyle session with Chad & Amy

This has been a strange Fall here in the Northeast. Late, and not terribly colorful until now when most of the leaves are down. I think that I nailed the last beautiful weekend of the season for Chad and Amy's session. We had gorgeous mild temperatures and the most incredible blue sky. These guys were terrific! Climbing trees and horsing around. They were surprisingly relaxed in front of the camera (which is always great). I can't believe how many shots we took. I'm still editing. No wedding date planned yet but when, (notice I say when, not if, heh heh) these guys decide to get married I will be so up to shoot their day. Thank you Amy and Chad for showing me the love. Here are some teasers until I can finish the whole session.