Tower Grove Park shoot

From a session I had on Tuesday night. We went to Tower Grove Park in St Louis. What a beautiful place and so many photo spots. :) This little doll did so well and I think had a little bit of fun playing in the fountains. Just a few of my fav's, there were so many that I loved it was hard to choose a few to put on here. 

Thanks Jen for the referral! She gets a free 5x7 from her session in May and my client on Tuesday also gets a free 5x7 with their order. 

When your children are quiet

They are usually up to something. :) 

Jack, he was supposed to be finger painting PAPER... um... I think he missed. 

Jack...

The secret of genuis is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

He cracks me up. :D 

No Trespassing

I'm constantly looking for new locations to take photos. While delivering something to a friend of my husband's we found this old abandoned house and I fell in love... 

I persuaded hubby to take Jack and myself back. We got there and I fired off about, oh 3 photos (these 3) when an old farmer pulls up, gets out and stand there looking at us. "Uh oh"... it was his land, but FARM LAND... I explained to him what we were doing. He didn't seem to want to offer to let us use it if I wanted to come back. This is always my fear when I find a new place, that it is some farmer's land and (as in this case) aren't too willing to allow us to go on it and take photos. 

This house would have been the COOLEST... I can see myself taking some senior shots inside, the outside (as you can see) is very grungy and cool. *sigh* oh well.. I'll have to keep hunting. 

More from Bobby's Hobbys

A few more from our day at Bobby's Hobbys... such a fun place. We have to go back and take the girls. 

Bliss

"I don't know if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but there are a few wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat." - Story People 

This was taken at Bobby's Hobbys... we pass this place a lot, it is on the outer road on the way to Farmington. Every time we pass Jack says "mommy, I go there, I go there" so today, with daddy on vacation we made a special trip. For someone who doesn't really like vintage and retro cars, well you would be bored, but for a photographer and a little boy that loves anything with wheels, we were in HEAVEN. 

We found out that "Bobby" is 82 and this is purely his hobby, the man that was working there told us that half of the time, people may come in and want to buy and he will have a price on it but won't sell.... this photo is in front of a black t-bird that I would have give my left pinkie for... OMG, it was SWEET. But, there are also so many neat rusty old cars as well that I would KILL for. :) 

We will go back, Jack had such a good time and I'm going to see if maybe I can take a client or two. 

A 3 year old Wii addict

I think we need "Wii anonymous" lol, he was addicted before, we have a Monster truck game, well... we made it worse. We rented Disney's "Cars" for Wii and now he wants to do nothing else. :) I guess I know what he will be doing until Thursday when it's due back to Blockbuster. :P 

Hope everyone has a great Monday. 

Random quote of the day

I love Story People, I may have said this before, but if you haven't visited, you need to, you need to have plenty of time.. go and sit back and read. 

Hasn't started to make sense of the world yet, but thinks it's beautiful all the same. 

- Story People