Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending the day with 50 or so golden retrievers.  Gold Ribbon Rescue of Central Texas (GRR) has an annual picnic event that helps raise money to provide shelter, food, medicine, and an avenue to find permanent homes for these adorable golden retrievers.  The event is like a dog reunion that brings goldens that have found permanent homes and goldens that are still looking for homes together to enjoy a day in the park with each other.  There was food, dog products to purchase, grooming services, micro-chipping, and even a service to train the dogs for search and rescue.

My sister and her husband adopted a golden from GRR two years ago and they help out with GRR as much as they can.  I usually tag along with them to these events to help where I can and enjoy the company of these great dogs. GRR is a great service for rescuing these dogs from the streets and being put down.  GRR’s website has stories of these rescued dogs up for adoption that I go to read up all the time.  I hope to one day have the means to foster and adopt some goldens, they are really great dogs, drool and all. Here are some pictures of these great dogs.  Enjoy and take care.

This puppy up for adoption, just had surgery on his arm and spent all day in a carriage.  How can you not adopt this puppy with those eyes?

Probably my favorite picture of the day.

I felt so sorry for the one with the collar.  He was so happy though.

There were other dogs besides the golden retrievers that attended.  The one below was a therapy dog from Therapy Pet Pals of Texas, Inc….

who apparently thought he was a lap dog.

There were dogs large and small.  I love the picture of the dog yawning, every time I look at this picture it would make me yawn too, lol.

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Last week I was fortunate enough to second shoot a wedding with my photographer friend, Troy, in Coupland, TX.  Coupland was a small town with lots of character.  Everybody seems to know each other and everyone was very kind and inviting.  The wedding was held in Coupland’s only church, St. Peter’s Church of Coupland.  The church is over 100 years old and has beautiful stained glass windows.  The one element that I was so intrigued with was an ornate chandelier that hanged in the middle of the church.  I have not seen a chandelier quite like this one and was just mesmerized by it.  The chandelier, of course, added to the beautiful ceremony that even the wild wind blowing that day couldn’t take away.

Honey & Matt were fun to shoot, they were just carefree and laid back.  The ceremony was very simple and the reception was very casual where guest were treated to wedding cake and ice cream.  I was hoping to partake in some of the cake and ice cream, but thought that I should behave, lol.  Anyhow I wish Honey & Matt the best and I thank you guys for letting me share in your special day.

I especially have to thank Troy for letting me tag along.  I definitely learned a lot and had fun.  So please do head over to Troy’s blog to see more pictures of this beautiful day.  Enjoy and take care.

don’t you love the details in the chandelier…

I like the reflections of the groomsmen in Matt’s glasses.

really like the rim lighting in this picture.

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How cool is this, my entry for Jessica Claire’s Freaky Friday was posted on the Shootsac blog.  I sent it in a while back and thought nothing of it, so to see it today was pretty awesome.

I had been thinking for a while what I can do that was fun and creative with the shootsac cover and then one night while I was cleaning my room, I found a bag of origami pieces I had forgotten about.  There are about one thousand pieces of small one by two inch paper I have to fold and then assemble to construct into a larger figure.  I have 100 or so pieces folded, but that gave me the idea to turn the Shootsac cover into a simple origami crane.  I know it is not anything great, but it was fun to setup and shoot.  Take care everyone and have a great weekend.

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