September Photo Ops

It's been busy since Ben's first birthday party on the 17th of September.

I spent some time volunteering in the demonstration garden at the Western Washington Fair for Master Gardeners. It was a short jaunt to work my four hour shifts, since we live right across the street. This year seemed to bring out even more family and friends who enjoy our small, but free, fair parking spaces. It's all good. We get to see folks we wouldn't otherwise.

The Summerhill family visited from Vancouver at the end of September, so I could shoot Sarah's senior photos. We actually saw sunshine which brought out the honey in her hair as well as the brilliance of the leaves already turning color.

The shoot turned into a famly event, as well as an opportunity to take engagement pictures of Alan and fiance, Lindsey.

Lindsey is from Canada and as soon as she gets her fiance visa, they'll be getting married within three months of her re-entering the US. Usually the planning begins a year in advance! Lindsey and Alan have the basics completed. Now it's a matter of figuring out the date and place.

Another high school senior, Adam Lambert (yes that's his name!) gave me a chance to try out various outdoor locations, including our waterfall.

Tis the season for photo ops. See more of who has been gracing my lens at BonnieKingPhotography.com

For a Master Gardener, You Make a Great Photographer!

I was complaining to Scott that the six-inch pots which I had helped plant on the 27th of July weren't showing a sign of life. I had volunteered to go to a pot party at the WSU Master Gardener demonstration garden; plant lettuce, spinach and beets; and then bring some of the pots home to nurture. The plants are intended to be part of the Master Gardener demo garden in September at the Puyallup Fair.

I was beginning to wonder whether my good intentions and regular watering were all for naught. Scott was certainly not helpful when he insinuated I make a better photographer than a gardener. I was beginning to think him right. (Did I just put that in writing?!)

So over the past few days, without a vegetable shoot in site, I tended to my other shoots. You might say, instead of the green kind, I was nurturing a garden of memories for those whose photos I took including Bill and Ronda's family.

That was followed the same evening with an engagement photo session for Melissa and Anthony, just three days before his second deployment to Afghanistan.

Monday evening, I spent with Connor on Tapps Island, taking his high school senior photos. What a handsome, likable young man he is!

And yesterday, my other garden project finally starting showing some life. Thirteen days after planting, the vegetable shoots have finally arrived! BonnieKingPhotography.com