Monterey Bay Area, Central Coast wedding, portrait, and commercial photographer.
Toro Park Family Portrait
Here are my dear friends Lucy and Charles,, and their adorable boys Dylan and Miles on a beautiful crisp morning in Toro Park.
Baby Mia
I really love so many of the shots from this session. This great little family was just settling into their new home when these photos were taken. It was really fun to share in the joy of all that newness.
Garland Ranch in Summer
This session was so much fun! Jill, Matt, Grace, Ben, and I went out to Garland Ranch in Carmel Valley when things were still green and there were still a lot of wild flowers. I was in heaven with all the different settings we had to choose from. We started at the river, then went down the path through the meadows, up into the trees, and down to the barn- then back to the river. It was so fun to see how much the kids have grown in a year. Look here to see how they’ve changed.
Strawberry Summer
I have so many great sessions to blog and I’m looking forward to sharing those, but I haven’t added anything personal here lately, so I wanted to take a little break to welcome summer. I used to like occasionally blogging pictures of my garden- but since my own garden looks terrible right now, I am happy to share some photos from a recent playdate. It is a longstanding childhood fantasy of mine to pick berries and make things with them, so thanks to Gizdich Ranch in Watsonville, I get to live that out with my kids. (They also have olallieberries for the picking now and in the fall we go there for apples.) After picking we went home to make them into jam. I hadn’t tried that before and it was not as difficult or time-consuming as I had imagined. I didn’t even have to add as much sugar as the recipe called for because the berries were already so sweet. And I have to say the results are disproportionate to the effort because the jam tastes amazing. As we cooked, the whole house became filled with the aroma of fresh strawberries. Even in my wildest berry-making dreams I never imaged such a wonderful scent!
Here is Owen headed out to the strawberry field with his friends Bella and Lucas.
My other little berry, Signe who was present but didn’t really help that much.
