Here’s S’s little friend, Andy the rabbit. This polaroid was concocted using a fun PS action found here: polaroid generator. Polaroids are all the rage right now, but they are becoming extinct as Polaroid will no longer be manufacturing the film. (Perhaps they’ll drag this out for a while thanks to the surge in popularity of the vintage/ retro photo look).

Andy is a 2-year old miniature lop. S. recently did an animal report for school, and she chose the rabbit as her subject. She also constructed a rabbit diorama featuring a burrow with baby bunnies (made of pom poms). Here are a few fun facts (courtesy S.- our resident kindergartener and rabbit specialist):

1. Rabbits are called kits or kittens when they’re a baby.

2. Some rabbits could be brown, or white, or broken orange.

3. All bunnies jump really high.

4. They eat grass, clovers, and lettuce, carrots, alfalfa, and that’s all. [eta. most of which grows in our backyard!!] . . . oh, and they drink water.

5. They are fast. They could live in a cage or in a habitat underground.

6. My bunny is broken orange and white. He jumps high too. That’s all.

Busy week. Two birthdays- neither of them mine. UPS delivery. Big box. New lens. I promise to share it with DH as there is enough glass here for the two of us. Heart flutters. Shutter clicks. Bliss. Meet the newest addition to our Canon collection:

{add this baby to my camera, and the whole outfit weighs as much as a small child! I tell you, I’m going to get some major biceps toting this thing around! It is one of those lens with “zebra stripes” that mounts directly on the tripod rather than your camera on the tripod.}

And of course I did break it out of the box (within seconds of it being delivered!) and here are a few test shots:

{flowering pear 1/1250 sec at f/3.2, 200mm, 100 ISO}

{For some fun in the garage: try an impomptu photo session with the garage with the door open and your subject angled towards your new lovely light source. You’ll notice a flattering source of indirect light, and a nice reflection in the eyes!}

{Birthday mail from a beloved Uncle M & Aunt D–you made her day! Notice the new rollerblades– evidence of a recent birthday. More about this in the next post. I promise!}

{My darling A. in the kitchen. This lens works great indoors if you have enough room to move back and/or a full framed sensor. I love the bokeh (background blur) it produces! Now I’ll never have to clean up my house before taking photos!! Hah! It handles low light especially well.}

I am on the mend after nearly a full week of being sick. It is a rare thing for me- as we all know moms don’t have “sick leave” and I have been blessed with really good health. Thanks for the well wishes, people.

So a couple days ago a good friend did something for me that really made my day, and even more than that, reminded me of how blessed I am. Just getting through the day on “lesser-capacity mode” I had yet to think of dinner. My sweet DH had been making meals all week while caring for me. A knock came at the door, and wow! Here was this friend with an armload of food (vegetarian food, nonetheless–yes, I’m a lacto-ovo vegetarian) and a smile. This woman drove 20 minutes in the snow to bring this food to me! I couldn’t believe it, but then again I could. Some people.

Some people have many generous thoughts . . . and they follow through with them. I recently fell in love with this quote:

“Never suppress a generous thought.”

~Camilla Kimball, wife of Pres. Spencer W. Kimball

So to this friend- thanks for reminding me of how beautiful service is. I often think I need to plan ahead, coordinate, make sure it is needed, cover the bases before I act on a generous thought. I needed the reminder that service doesn’t have to be so planned out. Your gesture made me want to jump up and do something nice for a bunch of people. It reminded me to call a neighbor who has been experiencing a difficult pregnancy. It reminded me to tell my children about how wonderful people are. You are some person! Thank you.