So Much Love and Kindness

My mom's dearest friend very unexpectedly passed away last week. She was only 52, healthy and hilarious. She had three kids, five grandbabies, and a wonderful husband. I feel so sad for her family and for my mom, who received heaps and heaps of love and kindness from this lovely lady. She will be sorely missed, especially by my family. Rest in peace dear friend, and thank you for everything you did for my mom.

Fall is always a beautiful and much-anticipated time of year for me, but this one was a little tough. The tragic news of last week, and before that, heavy work schedules, hectic weekends, and the like, but it all was mixed with good things here and there. Things are easing now and hopefully looking up. I hope you all are doing well, enjoying your fall, and lovin' on your family and friends.

Evening

I spent a few hours at the cabin with my dad last Sunday and yesterday, but I was sad to see that in a week, autumn was all but done. Last Sunday is when I made these Polaroids and a bunch of little Instax images, but as we were driving past the lake, up into the mountains toward the cabin, we could see that the golden yellow aspens were reduced mostly to bare white branches and the oaks had dropped all their reds and oranges too. It was still beautiful of course, but just a little naked. The nice thing about it all is that now the ground has a thick carpet of crunchy colorful leaves, perfect for taking nerdy shoe self-portraits. I couldn't resist. I got new Keens. I just chalked it up to learning how my Instax camera reacts on its different settings when I've ghetto-taped over the flash.

Anyway, these three golden yellow Polaroids are my offerings for this week's post over at Words to Shoot By. I do hope you'll check it out. Our second guest contributor joined us today. It's Tracy of Prickly Pear Bloom!

Stadium Pal

Just wanted to pop in and say hello before we head to the Capitol Theater to see David Sedaris!

Americana II

Today marks the end of my week of guest blogging at Americana. Thank you Jen!

Sundance

A couple of Mondays ago, I drove to Sundance for my favorite turkey sandwich, oh and to take in the beautiful scenery. It was a nice, long afternoon out. I played with my new Fuji Instax Mini, and shot a bunch of Polaroids and another roll and a half in my K1000. I just love that little camera. I found it about a year ago at the thrift store down the road, and what it a find it was! Anyway, these four Polaroids I made at Sundance while wandering the snow and autumn leaf-covered paths. I just love it there.

Oh! I'm still guest-blogging at the Americana Film Project this week. Check it out. What a great project!