It isn’t the official start of fall until the trip to the Stanly Lane pumpkin patch occurs!! (Here’s last year’s post 2010) Marco and Belle had a lot of fun picking pumpkins and running around the hay.

I took some family pictures for the Gomers during our visit, and am quite pleased with the results! Of course, I snapped a few of my gorgeous boy…can you blame me?? The camera loves him. <3

I can’t wait to carve our pumpkins!!

Last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph the engagement photos for my friend Rachael, and her fiance, Mike. I was very nervous, but excited! Luckily, we all had fun, and the spot chosen for the shoot was so beautiful. I am so happy with how the pictures turned out!

It’s really fun to take photos of people that are so obviously in love – it gave me the warm fuzzies. Here’s a few of my favorite pics from the day:

What do you think??

The title of the blog is from the Madeline Peyroux song – I’ve been listening to her on my Pandora station. I love her voice!

This past weekend was a busy one! My mom and sister came up to Napa for a visit, and we took them out to lunch at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. Saturday night they babysat Marco while Tim and I headed out for a movie!  ’The Social Network’ was playing, and we noshed on popcorn, Icees and Skittles while we watched the whole drama of Facebook unfold.

I think it was actually a pretty good movie, but by no means the best movie of the year (as some have said). Aaron Sorkin managed to make a ‘geek’ story interesting. The actors were all fantastic, and one in particular has caught my eye:

Ohmigosh Andrew Garfield is my new boyfriend (Hugh needn’t be worried, he’s still my other husband)!  Sorry, Timmy! You know I love you best. xoxo

ANYWAY, the next day the Gomers came up to go to the Stanly Lane pumpkin patch. We went last year, so it’s kind of our tradition. It started pouring rain when they arrived, so we ended up eating lunch from Gott’s Roadside, and waiting out the rain. Luckily for us, it stopped raining around 3, so we were able to head over and pick out our pumpkins! I took some fun pictures of Belle:

A few other pictures from the weekend:

Rooting for truffles?!

Oooh ooh ohh! Don’t forget to enter the giveaway with Flapper Doodle! Go HERE!

Have a good day!

Well well well – Shelly finally kicked my butt in gear, and got me to fix the “aperture” section.

Feel free to peruse around and let her (me) know what you think!  Enjoy!

-Webmaster (aka Hubby)

After hours and hours of writing codes, Tim and I still can’t get the Aperture page to look right in all web browsers (Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome). The links are fine, but the spacing refuses to work properly.

GRR.

Think we have to scrap the portfolios and try something new there.

Thanks to Google’s decision to cut off FTP access to Blogger next month, Tim and I have had to relocate to our new ‘home’, WordPress.

Blog and Good Reads section are completed, but we’re still working on Aperture and About Me. Bear with us while we work out the bugs from the migration process.

Thanks! <3

I am sure you have now noticed the new design of my blog. Tim and I have been planning a big interwebs move for the last few months, but it wasn’t until this weekend that Inspiration (yes, with a capital ‘I’) hit. Voila! Now my blog, photography, book lists and contact information are all contained in one handy-dandy site. I’m taking over the internet!!

The Aperture by Michelle D section is broken down into three portfolios: People, Places and Things, and each contains subcategories. There are a few additions to each section, so please look around.

I am using LibraryThing to help catalogue my books. I’ve been keeping a list of all the books I’ve read in Word document, and so far am at 440 books, with the ultimate goal in mind of 1000 before I turn 35. LibraryThing relies on The Library of Congress to locate the books, and its been unable to find some of them, so its not my complete list. Also, I’ve left off a lot of the children’s series (Sweet Valley, Boxcar Children and so forth) to keep it simple. Tim wants me to write reviews, but for now I am just using the starring method. (5 is excellent, 1 is not, etc.)

We worked really hard on it the past few days, so let us know what you think of the new site design!

Also, big ups to my hubby, Timmy, for all of his help with the coding! He’s a freakin’ rock star. http://terrenetech.com/ xoxoxoxo

with vegetarian chili is normally a very delicious meal around the Dickson house. However, when said chili is inexplicably so spicy that it makes you cry, things tend to end well for Chloe. She loves spicy leftovers.

This weekend was fairly busy, but I did find time to take pictures of the Gomer family for their christmas cards:

We stopped in at Ameoba. It was my first time at one of their stores, and though I couldn’t spend much time OR money at this trip, I did manage to purchase a used copy of What’s the Story, Morning Glory? (lost to me since a damned dirty ape stole my cd’s, including this much-beloved Oasis album); Thrice’s new album, Beggars, as Tim only had a promo copy, and MY VERY FIRST VINYL….Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. I can’t wait to actually play the darn thing. Its one of my favorite albums <3.