More from the aspiring photographers...

Here are some recent pics we are quite proud of.  

We ran around Leesburg (quite literally, at times, as it was cold and rainy) and took some engagement pictures of our friends, Claudia and Jeff, who are getting married on October 11.  

They wanted some mushy, kissy-faced, pictures to celebrate their recent engagement.  Who doesn't?  Jeff really got into it, which somewhat surprised Claudia, I think.  But then again, who wouldn't get into public displays of affection in the rain while someone is pointing a camera at you?  Ummm... me?  and most of the people I know... 

This one's my favorite.  Pern took it after we got back to our house and had warmed our toes and fingers.  He took most of the others, too, by the way... I took a couple, but primarily stuck to color correction and touch ups for this shoot.

We like 'em.  The pictures, that is.  Oh, and Claudia and Jeff... we like them too :)

Oh, happy day!

It's the little things in life that make my day.  Like, saving the planet.  

You see, we do most of our grocery shopping at Target.  They have a decent grocery department and if we need say, a pillow or luggage, they have those things, too.  This has, until Thursday, filled us with guilt and despair, as every single shopping trip results in a minimum of 5 earth-unfriendly plastic bags.  The Target cashiers, mostly high school kids, don't know how to pack and as a result, we have oodles and oodles of extra bags floating around our house.  I'd always felt weird about taking our re-useable Giant bags into the store (didn't want to be tracked through the store via security cams as a potential shoplifter) so dealt with the plastic onslaught until... lo and behold!!!:  Target "green" bags (they're actually red)!!!  Woo Hoo!  Now we can bring official Target re-useable bags into the store, load them up, and bring them home without the extra plastic!  We both just stood there in the aisle, looking at them, and saying, "Oh, my God!  Are these what we think they are??"  It was a happy day!

Oh, yeah... Happy New Year!