This was one of those weeks where all the most memorable moments happened when I was without a camera. Like the INCREDIBLE sunset I witnessed for only a few minutes while taking my dog for an evening walk. It was amazing. No, like truly amazing. So amazing I'm not even going to try to describe it. I'll just trust you to take my word for it. Or like the night I sat in my car at the grocery store parking lot and cried. Then I continued to enter said grocery store and exit with three items: a tub of Breyers vanilla, a tub of Breyers chocolate chip cookie dough, and a bag of Kettle BBQ potato chips. It was embarrassing and borderline pathetic. I just pretended the cashier assumed I was stocking up for a labor day party. And then there were the short moments during yoga that my mind was finally able to let go. This doesn't occur very often, so it was memorable indeed! And so was the epically long phone conversation I had. I'm not proud of it and am not even sure how to take a picture of something like that if I tried, but I'm pretty sure it broke a world record. Or there's the night on the couch when I spooned Daphnie and she spooned the cat (even with her arm around her!) It was by far the cutest and most surprising thing I'd ever seen, considering Daphnie had never met a cat until about two months ago. 

Moral of the story is keep your camera handy. Because if you don't, you could miss out on stuff like this:

It's not a good picture, but it might be even more adorable than the furry spoon session I described on the couch. Just maybe...

Happy September!

Allie + Richard // married

At a wedding, something always goes wrong. It's just one of those known paradoxes to life that no matter how much you plan or rehearse, things get changed. But at the end of the day all that matters are the little things that feel so, so right. And Allie and Richard's wedding was no different. 

I adored the way he kissed the bridge of her nose, like his lips belonged there. And I liked that they were all about balance. She was the loud to his quiet, he was the calm to her nerves. I liked that even her mom, who admitted herself that she liked to talk, could do nothing but cry when she saw Allie in her dress. There were no words, just pure emotion. And that's what a wedding day is. I mean, why else would I cry behind my camera during their first dance? Some would argue it's because I'm a romantic, emotional sap (which couldn't be more true.) But the real truth is that Allie and Richard deserve each other. They loved. And I felt it. It was contagious. 

Thank you both (and your wonderful friends and family) for letting me be a part of it all. 

a day in august.

She wore mascara in the ocean and pearl earings on the beach.

Her eyes the color of the water.

Her skin the shade of sunset,
         burnt by the summer's sun.