Captain Planet and Biskey

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing and beautiful Mom's out there!  I'm not a mother yet, but I'd like to think I'm a Biskey's momma and wanted to post some pictures of Biskey and her new friend.  

One afternoon, I was coming home from a photo shoot and I stopped to pick up some groceries.  Sometimes, when I have too many groceries to carry all by myself, I will text Matt to meet me out at the sidewalk to help me carry our groceries up three flights of stairs to our place.  When I texted him this time around, he said that he and Biskey were at the park.  So, I stopped off at the park and joined them for a few minutes.  I saw that Biskey was playing with a corgi named CAPTAIN PLANET!  So, naturally, I grabbed my camera to snap a few shots of them running around the park chasing after each other.  I think corgi's are so cute and I was thoroughly amazed at how quickly Captain Planet could run with his short little legs and long, stout body.  Here are some of those photos of Biskey and Captain Planet playing at the park.  Beware!  You may see some ferocious looks from Biskey!! They were exhausted after they were done playing with each other.  :)

Thanks for reading my blog today!  Happy Mother's Day to all you amazing mothers!!

New Roots Project at Drew School in San Francisco

I've been looking forward to blogging about this post!  Back in February, a man from Paris, France by the name of Patrick Blanc (yes he has GREEN hair, his favorite color is GREEN and he some long fingernails), traveled to San Francisco to see his Vertical Garden design come to life at Drew School, just off of California Street and Broderick Street in San Francisco.   Drew School New Roots Project includes the new assembly wing, the Vertical Garden and a Rooftop Garden designed by Rana Creek.  I was assigned to take photos of the day-to-day progress of the planting of the Vertical Garden and a few weeks later to take photos after the scaffolding was taken down.  Here are some of the photos taken of Drew School and the Vertical Garden.  Enjoy!

Thanks for viewing my blog today!  If you live in San Francisco, you ought to take a walk or drive by Drew School on the corner of California and Broderick Streets.  The Vertical Garden is quite amazing!

San Francisco Maternity Shoot

First came Flicker... the Vizsla.  Then came Cillian... the first born son.  And soon there will be Fergal... Fergal is just a name place holder, until their second son is born, which will be any day now.  

Nancy and Niall are some of our really good friends here in the city and we couldn't be more thrilled for them!  Matt and I can't wait to meet little Fergal and to have a baby added to the mix of great friends and good company.  I'm sure there will be lots of adventure added to this already fun and loving family.  And I can't wait to find out what Nancy and Niall name their son.  It's a big mystery!

 Congratulations Nancy and Niall!  We wish Nancy a smooth delivery and for a healthy baby boy! 

It's been awhile...

Man, oh man!  I feel like I've not been around in ages!  I have been keeping up with photography, but this last month and a half has been a bit of a transition for me.  In mid January, I sprained my ankle pretty bad.  I was on crutches for about 3 days and got so fed up with them, that I only used them when I was going out in public to protect my ankle from people, uneven sidewalks and dogs.  I was just about to start my new dog running job and literally sprained my ankle the day before.  Talk about bad timing!  I let my ankle heal with rest for about 5 weeks and began dog running in mid February.  I am on a pretty consistent dog running schedule now and my first full week was this week.  I logged 33.5 miles of running this week!  And I think that will be the average amount of running a week, maybe even up to 35 miles.  Yikes!  I don't remember running that many miles when I was training for the Chicago Marathon!  It feels great and I have so much fun not only with the dogs, but running... rain or shine!  Here are the pooches I run with throughout the week. 

This is Bessie.  She's a sweetheart!

This is Athena and Natasha.  They're are quite the duo!

This is Tula.  She's crazy cute and fun!  She's so spunky!

Also, since early February, I've been nannying for a sweet family in the Fillmore area of San Francisco. The little boy's name is Ian and he's 10 months old.  He's such a great little boy and he is a chunk!  I only take care of him from 6:30am to about 8:30am.  This has changed me!  I used to never be a morning person and now, miraculously, I am!  I really enjoy taking care of Ian and helping out his family.  I feel like I'm learning a lot which will help prepare me for when I'm a mother someday.  No babies in my belly yet, but hopefully, soon!  Just yesterday, we were getting ready to go and his mother and I thought he smelled pretty poopie.  So, at 7:45am, I went in to change his diaper.  I had always heard of those untimely blow out poopie diapers from my parent friends, you know, the ones that happen when you're in a hurry, ready to get out the door and then, dun, dun, dun... there's the dreaded poopie blow out.  I took off his outfit and was unbuttoning his onesy.  And I noticed there was mushy poop that came out of his diaper.  I lifted him to sit up and I saw that the mushy poop was all the way up his back and nearly into his armpit!  I called his mom in and it was a tag team effort to get this little guy cleaned up.  It was so bad that we had to give him a shower even after we cleaned all the poop up just to get him out of the onesy, diaper and into the bath tub.  Wow!  My first blow out experience!  We call it the Bouncy Blow Out, because when I put him in the bouncer, it gets his bowels moving and if we're not careful, the Bouncy Blow Out will happen!  I know... gross, huh?  But I'm sure all you parents with babies and toddlers will appreciate this story and can totally relate!  Anyways, here's a picture of Ian in his bouncer.

This was not the day of the Bouncer Blow Out.  :)

I have lots of pictures to post and things to blog about.  I thought however, to get back into the swing of things, that I would blog about what's been going on in life lately.  Aside from the new dog running and nannying jobs, I did travel up to Washington last minute to attend a dear family friend's funeral (so sad) and to visit my aunt who is dying of cancer.  I did manage to see a couple of friends, but mainly was there to spend time with my family.  When I got back from that trip, Matt, Biskey and I moved into the top floor of our apartment building.  It's half the size, but feels more like home.  :)  And then shortly after we moved, we had visitors from San Diego one weekend, and then a visitor from Seattle the weekend after that.  I love having visitors!  It means I get to show them around town, eat good food, and enjoy their company.  :)  There will be blogs with photos to come of their visits, as well as a project of a local high school and a cool vertical garden project, as well as a recent meeting with some of the San Francisco mayoral candidates, and a sweet family shoot.  So, look for these posts to come!

Thanks for reading... I know, it's much more than usual, but there have been lots of changes!