this morning, aaron was on a conference call which was kind of distracting, so i took albus in the back yard while i finally took out the good camera and tried to capture some of the gorgeous everything that surrounds us here. i also got around to finally photographing the soaps i made right before leaving atlanta. yey! soaps! so i turns out, snow is quite a beautiful backdrop for product photos.

you get your camera and start walking around in 3 feet of snow to capture those little moments of a drop falling off an icicle, or a pillow of snow precariously balanced on a tiny branch of pine needles, or the mallard standing on the one rock in the middle of the stream oblivious to the pile of snow on his back. and i got a few of those. but albus found a tennis ball from who knows where and quickly frightened away all the ducks and destroyed the pristine snow by the rushing stream. so i took pictures of him too. he’s just so photogenic, i couldn’t help it. i think the lesson learned is that while you may set out to be all artsy and try to get that one artistic shot of snowflakes on a rock in a stream, your best photos are what you really care about. and i care about a fluffy, snow loving goldendoodle named albus. and i think it shows in the photographs.

the pretty surroundings:

the pensive, adorable, albus who so patiently poses beautifully for head shots:

and the real dog albus that loves to fetch and is slightly freaked out by the ducks in the stream:

happiness is a face in the snow looking for your dearest toy.