Napa Valley

Last weekend I spent a few days in San Francisco for work, and as part of the trip, we took a day to visit beautiful Napa Valley. I'll admit it was a little different than I expected! However I did get some nice pictures of the scenery as we visited various wineries.


Cypress trees lining the driveway to Peju Winery.


I'm not sure what this tree was called, but I loved the colors of the leaves!


Flowers in the garden at Brix restaurant.


At the amazing Castello di Amorosa winery.


Also at the Castello. I loved all of the doors!


And of course, wine!

Stay tuned for further installments of my San Francisco trip photos!

I Exist.

I promise I haven't forgotten about this blog. Life is simply INSANE and I'm trying to catch up on a million things. I'm editing some photos from San Francisco and hope to post them soon!

Etsy Shop

Ok...so, I decided to make a little shop on Etsy.com. Etsy is a really cute website which reminds me of Ebay, except you aren't bidding on things, and everything is either homemade or vintage. I was going to create a site from scratch, and then realized I do not have enough coding skills to make that work. So Etsy it is! I'm starting very small, with customized birth and baptism announcements. I'll add some holiday and birthday cards sometime soon, hopefully. And maybe some photography. Or other art. We shall see. I've got to actually get some orders first, ha.

Here's the link: Pretty Fish Design

Oh, and I forgot: in case you are wondering about the names of the different designs, they are the names of some of my friends' kids!

Football Birthday Party Invitation

My little man will be turning one this month! How time flies...

Of course I had fun creating a birthday party invitation for him. I'm still waiting for the order to come in, so they have not been sent out yet, but here is the little design I came up with. I took the photo of Luke in his Browns warm-ups and football.



(obviously the info on the card isn't correct...)

Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin

This past weekend we made the 6 hour trek up to Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, for my cousin Ted's wedding. I was very excited at the chance to take my camera along and get some nice shots of the beautiful Northwoods. Unfortunately, the weather did not want to cooperate. The high was 49, it was overcast and raining, and very windy! I felt awful for the bride and groom, but that's another story. So, I didn't get out to take any photos until later Saturday evening and then early Sunday morning, before we left.





That evening, when the clouds finally started to break up:





And the next morning, which turned into an especially beautiful day:

Random Naturey Stuff

I'll be gone for about a week, so a little update before I go! These were taken all over the place.













Hopefully when I get back, I'll have some neat stuff to share!

A few more!

Two new designs...although, I have to admit, the other stuff people submitted is pretty good.