Wow, I sure hope you haven’t forgotten me!  It’s been one week since I posted!  Well … I told you it was going to be a busy week for me here, and it certainly was!  I wanted to share a little blessing that came my way this past week.  My son had helped me purchase a camera before he left for CA, and I’ve always wanted to turn it into a small business with him, once I learned how to use all that it had to offer, and after having lots of practice … a whole lot!!  Well, I had an opportunity to go with a group of seasoned photographers to do a ‘photo shoot’ for some practice this past Thursday!  My husband and I both went to meet a friend who had invited us along.  Once we got downtown, met everyone, (a great group of people, and mostly wedding photographers) we just started walking, looking for places to ‘shoot’.  This practice was for ‘portraits’, and we all were taking photos of one another.  It really was fun … nothing like I’d ever experienced with a camera in my hand, and it was really good experience … I learned alot!  I must say, though, for me personally, I’d much rather be behind the camera than in front of it!  

After about 2 hours, and lots of ‘captured images’, we were all getting hungry, so we trouped to a really great pizza place downtown called, BazBeaux … it has such a quaint, cozy atmosphere … I almost felt like I was in Italy, or somewhere other than downtown Indy!  We all ordered our own personal pizzas (made with different kinds of fresh ingredients, and herbs) … it was fantastic!  We never knew that place even existed until then!  I think … no … I know we’ll be going back!  This group will be having more of these ‘shoot-arounds’ downtown, about once a month.  I find myself looking forward to the next one!  I want to learn all I can, and it was such a blessing to have been invited along with this group!  If you don’t mind, I’ll share one of the photos I took of my sweet friend, Vanessa … who, also, is an aspiring photographer, and the one who had invited us to this group!  She’s also an acomplished pianist, and a beautiful Christian young lady … and I might add, very photogenic!  I love the old buildings we found … they make really nice backdrops for the photos.

I have lots more photos from the shoot, but I really don’t want to bore you too much!  I’ve been working on a photography site, here on Xanga, where I’ll be sharing more as I go along … I’ll post a link to that soon!  Anyway, after all that excitement on Thursday, we had our show this past weekend, which started on Friday … we were extremely busy, and God truly blessed our sales!  The weather has been beautiful here, and that helped to bring out everyone who’s been couped up for so long!  It’s hard to believe, but do I think spring has finally sprung!  I hope you’re all having warmer weather, and clear skies!  I’ve really missed being here, and checking in with you, but sometimes life just gets busy!  It should slow down for us now, as this was the last show, until possibly the end of May, but we haven’t decided whether or not to do that one, yet.  Otherwise, we’re free until August!  Seems so far away, but I’m sure time will fly … it seems to be traveling faster and faster, the older I get!  Anyone else notice that, besides me?!  Well, I am hoping to slow down a little … at least for this coming week!  I really need to catch up with you all … it’s been far too long!  But first, I’ll leave you with an email that I received awhile back … this one kinda makes you go ‘hmmm’!  Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Monday!  See you soon!

Hugs,

         ~ Deborah <><

 

Only in America …. can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in America …. are there handicap parking places in front of our skating rinks.

Only in America …. do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of
the store to get their prescriptions, while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America …. do people order double cheeseburgers,
large fries, and a Diet Coke.

Only in America …. do banks leave both doors open
and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America …. do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway
and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America …. do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting
so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.

Only in America …. do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America …. do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well:
‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’,  and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.