Backyard Beauty

I accidentally planned this perfectly. I am kinda impressed with myself on how well it worked out. The plan: Go to gym a little before 8, work out, drive the long way home to hopefully snap some sunset pictures. My plan got slightly delayed by a phone call from a good friend & then I left the gym about 10 minutes early because they were closing and I felt slightly bad holding up the nice girl who probably wanted to run out those doors come 9 o'clock. Well, everything happens for a reason. I have photo evidence.







*Both of these are SOOC - straight out of camera*

Green, for golf.

My soon-to-be husband is a professional golfer. He lives and breathes golf. Before I met him, I had played one 9 hole round in grade 10. Needless to say, my golf skills are lacking. Last summer I came to realize that if I wanted to spend more time with him during the golf season I should probably learn to golf, I will never ever get even close to his level of golfing but I wanted to be able to go out on the course with him and us both enjoy it (instead of me being exceptionally frustrated because it took me 7 swings to actually hit the ball!)

So this summer in an effort to improve my golf game - and try to figure out just what it is about this silly game my fiance finds so wonderful - I joined the ladies golf league. Once a week, 9-holes, with only ladies. I can do this, right? 'Get comfortable with being UNcomfortable!' as my fitness idol, Julian Michaels screams at me from her work out DVD. How can I possibly become more comfortable out on the golf course without first pushing through the uncomfortableness and self consciousness of learning?

Last night was the kick-off and we had an only for fun scramble, and I have to admit - I really did enjoy myself. It was so nice to be out there with ladies closer to my skill level who were all very encouraging and just out there to have a good time. I still have a long way to go but I am hoping that each week I will slightly improve and also slightly like this game, that is *forever* going to be in my future, just a little bit more.

I asked Scott what colour I should paint my toenails. His answer: "Green, for golf."

May 3rd Post....

I DID post today, I swear! It was a draft that I started a while ago and for some reason it posted it to the date that I started it and not today :S And I cannot, for the life of me, figure it out. So here it is! I didn't lose steam after my first day of the challenge!!

Month of May Challenge

I spend a lot of time looking at other photographers blogs - you might even say I'm addicted, it's rare for me to go a day without checking up on what other people out there are doing. I've known for a long time that I should put a lot more effort into my own blog instead of reading other peoples. Writing doesn't come easily for me (surprising considering talking comes very easily) and so I usually put off blog posts instead of pushing myself to find words to write.....which leads me to my own personal 'Month of May Challenge'. I will blog Monday - Friday for the entire month of May. My goal is to become more comfortable with putting myself out there as well as pushing myself to spend more time on my own photography instead of others. I am hoping that this will also help me to make more time to take photo's. I am frequently inspired by others and now it is time for me to actually do something about it.



Me and my wonderful fiancé, who is always pushing me to go after my dreams

* A special thanks to Paige, who inspired me to do my month challenge with her own adventures with nanowrimo, as well as her constant support *