Anniversaries and Such

Have I mentioned that I have the greatest husband in the entire world? Well, I do...but don't tell Dutch Boy I said that. I need some leverage against him, and it might hurt my street cred. This weekend was our first wedding anniversary. (In unison, now: AWWWWW....) I got flowers, a special breakfast, dinner at a restaurant where you definitely don't want to have fins (a.k.a. a seafood place), and, best of all, I got to pick out a new, fancy-pants camera.

With this new and wonderful camera which I have almost no clue how to use (words like aperture and ISO make for a reason to learn an entire new vocab), I've been trying to take some artsy pictures. Needless to say, it's going to take some practice. Here are some of my first (of many) attempts:


This was my attempt to kill two birds with one stone: exercise the dog and take photos at the Botanical Gardens. Epic fail. She crashed through the bushes, went to the bathroom in one of the orchids, played in the water features, and then decided (as seen in this picture) that she needed to hop up and down several large boulders (which I'm sure was not the intention of whomever decided to put said rocks there). We left before we got kicked out.


Sleeping beauty. It's a dog's life.


"Please stop putting that camera in my face. What's a girl gotta do to get some rest around here?!?"


Anniversary tulips.


My life. In pictures.