4. dolls without faces
once again my realpuki’s steal the show…
i had every intention of getting noni, amberglas and crystalorn to help me bake tonight. i thought i could probably get my challenge photo while they were busy mixing. imagine my surprise when we all came into the kitchen to find smidge and beezie already busy at work. needless to say i took a couple quick photos of my helpful little sprites, and told the girls they could be in the picture tomorrow…
fast forward several hours. i was still disappointed with my challenge pictures from earlier, but all that was about to change. enter a mischievous little sprite named smidge. smidge was playing in the kitchen and somehow got up onto my knickknack shelf. peeking out through a lazer sculpture a friend brought back from a mexican vacation, she was grinning engagingly and then i saw it. 
lovely reflections serendipitously staring back at me…
i grabbed my camera and began to shoot.
my little sweetheart saved the day! 🙂
we’re all sick with colds here. so not much time to blog. but this was a rather cute picture of digory sleeping with his favorite blanket
today we decided to hike to bow glacier falls, an amazing hike. it was a cool drizzly day, the kind i like best for hiking in. just cool enough to not overheat, enough rain to be refreshing, and enough sun to not get more than damp. digory wore his new red sweater to keep warm. i need to make him a raincoat if we are going to go hiking often. but in typical boy fashion a little mud and water with no soap in sight just made it all the more fun!
the rocks were amazingly diverse, scattered across the valley where the glacier had advanced and receded long ago. the rocks mixed with iron oxide had rusty orange patterns, i nice change from the usual gray rocks found around here.
the water tumbled over the cliffs in large and small streams so we ended up hiking through the low creek beds which covered the whole valley. i’m sure later in the season it is drier but fording the water on larger rocks was actually kind of fun. it was challenging to find larger rocks on which to rest and look around. we took advantage of the ones we found.
“cailyn, look at this amazing hole!” digory exclaimed
“can i go down there?”
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i finally went out today and took some quick shots of ember (chloe) and can introduce her. it was a horrible day for pics with the sun going in and out of the clouds, making it really hard to get the right exposure, but i did get a few i liked.
she is going to get new eyes before the next photoshoot. her deep purple ones look great in person but in a photo keep looking like they are all pupil, or blowing out and looking bloodshot.
other than that i’m happy with the way she turned out – sexy yet demure at the same time.
the shirt was really big but i bunched it up behind her and loved the slightly sexy look it gave
amberglas welcomes her sister ember home with a snuggle hug.
i think ember needs new eyes though. the purple ones don’t photograph well, she keeps looking bloodshot, though they are quite nice in person. time for new colored contacts i guess 😉
a moss covered rock forms a natural bridge in the woods
the only problem is the bridge leads nowhere and crosses nothing.
it’s a lovely bridge, none the less, one which we simply had to cross
digory playing king of the castle on an old tree trunk
digory is determined to find a christmas tree to take home, even though it is still summer! he’s convinced if he can just find the right one i’ll let him sneak it out of the park. he scrambled up on this log to inspect the tree growing out of its top.
i said we could just take a picture instead.
spying another he exclaimed “this one is not very big, can we take THIS one?” to his great dismay i had to refuse.