Here is Skylar taking my picture:
Love the focus.
Cedar Key, Florida
So after our stay in Jekyll Island, we drove across northern Florida and ended up on Cedar Key, a little island on the west coast. My dad and Carol (a great stepmom, nothing like the deranged women in those Fairytales I’ve been reading to Will) are staying there for a few months.
We were only there for 2 nights and it was rainy most of the time, so the camera got little play. Here are a few shots of the town:
I love this:Dad is reading Skylar one of my favorite childhood books. It’s called Betsy’s Baby Brother. The book shows both breast feeding and a poop in a diaper, so for a 2 year old it is seriously enthralling material.
Their beloved dog Poker, is in this shot- at least 1/4th of him is:
Love you guys! Thanks for the wonderful visit. xoxo
Jekyll Island, Georgia
So… I went on a little trip with my girl, Skylar and my brother Billy. Or Bill, if you met him after age 10.
Our mom has escaped the Maine winter and is spending some time on Jekyll Island -a beautiful state park off the coast of Georgia. Here are some images from our stay with her…
I loved the moss hanging from the huge oak trees…
Mom, Sky and her dog Ashley Belle. Sky is still telling me that she NEEDS to go to BEACH with Birdie (mom’s grandma name) and Ashley. NOW.
On our last morning, Billy and I got up to see the sunrise with mom. This is something she does every morning on Jekyll. Here we are walking out to the beach:
I’m so glad I crawled out of bed….
Next stop- Ceday Key, Fla. My dad and Carol (stepmom) also escaped the Maine winter and are spending a few months on the west coast of Florida. These are all smart Mainers. 
Jekyll Island & Cedar Key
I’ve been away…
…and now I’m home. More on this little adventure in the next post. xoxo
Morning in Tiburon
I am going over shoots from the fall that I didn’t get a chance to blog. Here is a great family, my second year with them …and they had a new member to introduce:
What a good looking crew! I couldn’t get over how fabulous Natalie looked. I mean, come on, she just had her third child!
Trampoline. Harder to photograph than you would think.
They make good kids.
Cavallo Point Wedding Brochure
I’m so excited! Cavallo Point is using several of my images for their 2010 wedding brochure.
I’m not the one who took the cover shot, but I though it was so pretty…
This is from Judy and Duc’s beautiful ceremony:
My shot is the one on the left, with the rose petals:
There is Judy and Duc, slicing the cake!
If you are looking for a beautiful spot near San Francisco to get married, you seriously can’t go wrong here!
(I wish I knew the other photographers in the brochure -if you are one of them, comment below and I’ll give you the credit you deserve!)
My Boy
Will has been melting my heart on almost a daily basis these days. He is such a wonderful 4 year old, it makes all those tough days of the 2’s and 3’s so worth it.
Yesterday we went to Trader Joes and he got a balloon. When we were getting out of the car, he let go of it by mistake and the wind whipped it right away. The look on his face was so tragic, I said the first thing that popped into my head to make him feel better: “Will, it’s ok! Now you can make a wish on the balloon!”
He looked up into the sky, watching his beloved balloon floating away and whispered: I wish my balloon would come back to me…
And… my heart breaks. But in a good way.
Changes…
And because it is a new year, I’m playing around with the look of the blog and next, I’ll update the website. So, here is little Skylar as my sweet placeholder until I get a new slideshow finished. Or not. I’m kind of liking the look of a single image for the header -and man, so much easier to update!
Happy New Year!
Wow~ This is the first time I have been in my office in about 12 days. A good break but I am happy to be back in my cozy, little space again.
This photo is actually from August but I think it fits. Here in the Bay Area, it doesn’t rain at all for months in the summer. Everything dries up and the earth turns brown. Then when you least expect it, in late August, these gorgeous pink flower appear, growing out of the dry, cracked ground. By this time in the year I have always forgotten all about them and it is such a lovely surprise to see them bloom -I just love them.
So, Happy New Year to you and cheers to any unexpected beauty and happy surprises that may come to you in 2010.
xoxo Mary
The Ginko Leaves are Falling
We used to live on a street in West Oakland that would look like a scene from a fairytale a few weeks out of the year. The street is lined with ginko trees and in late fall the leaves all turn bright yellow and then blanket the road and sidewalks. We still have the place we lived in and were doing some landlordy stuff last weekend. I was so happy to not have missed it -and Drew’s bus looks just perfect in this setting. (These were taken with an iphone.) Next year I want to be there with my medium format and spend more than 2 minutes grabbing shots. Still, I like these…
by Mary
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