The Woodlands, Houston award winning Newborn photographer, Allison Parker | feather-nest

Yes, I’m still in business . . . a little too busy these days. So much so that I don’t want to deal with the “to do” list beside me . . . I’d rather spend too much of my time watching this spider! He’s amazing and he lives in MY backyard:o) We have been watching him all week. You can’t see his web until it’s dark & you turn on the porch light & then TAh-DAH! It’s really beautiful. It’s huge – it stretches from the house out to the pine tree island. I miss my macro lens . . . it wouldn’t fit my new camera . . . so . . . these aren’t the best, but this web gets me all excitable every day. It was absolutely perfect until our crazy Yorkie attack dog had to go out for his nightly rounds. He was extra wound up that I was on his radar. He busted one little strand that must have been connected at the ground level & it ruined a lot of hard work. It must be frustrating to be a spider. I’m waiting to see how long it takes him to fix it. Our whole family has been amazed by him, but I just can’t seem to step away from the back door . . . so busy & so perfect . . . how does he know how to do that?? It just amazing . . . he runs to the middle and then dances out each little vein of the web to the outsides and then back to the center again. I guess he’s collecting all of his “treats” and then taking them home? He’s fast. It’s cool. I like him. I hope he stays a while.

My 2 year old wanted to know if she could hold him. “Can I hold him in my little hand mommy?’ . . . (me) “Ummmmm . . . . NO!” . . . . “Is he a biter?” . . . (me) “they all are sweety”. I didn’t go as far as my friend who would have said, “If you touch a spider he’ll bite you and you’ll die!” She really does that! But, she has a boy too. ;o)

 

[go ahead . . . insert eyeroll here] If I weren’t an iPhone junkie I would totally be rolling my eyes right now. Here comes some iPhone love:

. . . on my to-do list this week was dump the 944 pictures that have appeared on my iPhone since the last dump in June (I think)?? Interestingly, my 2 year old had quite a few contributions this time (about 80 or so). She’s getting pretty good too! There was a cool one of her sister’s eyeball. Most of them are just me playing with the light and a lot of the only rain we’ve had all summer.

I haven’t seen a rainbow in forever . . . unfortunately I had to hold up my phone & guess . . . I caught part of it.

This was “my special mess #1″ entertaining herself with my phone at the grocery store . . . the pictures are hilarious . . . she likes to see her pictures on here too and she picked this one! I love the bright colors of it too.

 

I’ve seen the coolest skies this summer . . . not sure why it seems different than usual to me – am I paying more attention or is God getting extra creative on us this summer?

 

They’re gonna have to add a whole new category of sun flare for iPhone pictures (“iPhlare” . . . that’s just going too far . . . I know – I’m a dork really – sorry.) But, in all seriousness . . . I couldn’t do this again if I tried. The sun was filtering through the pine trees just right & the trees just busted up the flare into little rainbow bursts . . . kind of fun. I really wished I had my real camera with me. And, yes . . . I’m busted – “my special mess #2″ is still in her jammies. I can only be accountable for so much these days. . . she’s smiling – I deserve a star for that alone.

 

 The sky really was this blue. . . my favorite colors -  blue & white. . . maybe that’s why I like the sky so much? who knows? okay, back to work. Just had to unload a little.

Have a happy weekend:o)