May Flowers

Today I downloaded...*ahem*...a couple week's worth of photos off my camera, plus I perused about a month's worth of photos that I haven't really looked at.  I've been so stinking busy.  It's sad.  So going through these photos was just like the old days when you'd drop a roll of film off to get processed and then you'd have so much fun flipping through them when you'd get them back.  Fortunately for me, I rarely post process photos so I didn't have the anxiety of "being behind" that flipping through a month's worth of ignored photos might have caused some people.  I just enjoyed looking through them and seeing what we had been up to.  I uploaded a few to my Facebook photography page.

It was nice to look back through these photos because I think it helped rekindle a bit of my love affair with photography.  Lately I just haven't been feeling it.  I've not taken a lot of photos.  Of course, my version of not taking a lot of photos means I don't have two dozen photos every single day.  *hehe*  And there are even several days with no photo at all.  *GASP*  But looking back through these photos made me feel like pulling the camera out again.

While I perusing some more photos this evening, it occurred to me to go check out the Focus 52 prompt for this week and see if I had any that fit the bill.  And well...what do you know...the prompt was May flowers.  And probably my two favorite series of shots from this week actually had a flower connection.

Last weekend we did a bunch of landscaping so all this week we've been watering like crazy.  My kids like to help water. Well let's be real, they want access to the hose and if that means aiming it at some crazy plants their parents planted around the house, so be it.  So here's my daughter watering some of our new flowering shrubs.



(And then after I said that I don't post process, I went right to Photoshop and adjusted the curves on this.  *hehe*)

The second photo is actually of a cake...but there is a flower connection, I promise.  A few weeks ago my mom turned 60.  That's a pretty big deal, right?  I wanted to do something special for her so I started planning to present her with a birthday cake at a little soiree that I would be hosting.  Plus my brother and his wife and my husband and I DID take her out to dinner on her birthday but that actually turned into a big fiasco.  I got super light-headed and had to leave dinner early.  But anyway, back to her birthday.  I ordered a special cake for her and yesterday evening, at my little soiree, I presented her with the birthday/mother's day cake.  And then today I took the bottom layer to my mother-in-law's house and we got to enjoy the mother's day cake with her as well.



See, I told you there was a flower tie-in!

So there you go...my two flower photos for this week.