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I have a lot of photos from this day, but didn’t load them all to Flickr because I hate flooding it. But, I will be working on my personal gallery/website that will have all of my photos outside of my portrait work. Just gotta find that time to get that together.
Thanksgiving morning, I woke up early to take the dogs out and go venture out in the sunrise and fog around town. Caught some amazing light out there and the fog made it amazing to look at too.
We arrived in Cooter pretty easily. Not too bad of traffic. Daisy on the other hand was quite the nervous wreck. She didn’t want to lie down and actually rest. Jack did very well, and attempted to sleep a lot when he could with the occassional sitting up and checking things out from the window.
When we got there, it was also a chore getting Daisy to use the bathroom. The dog didn’t poop the entire trip. Insane. So, my first day there I took some amazing cotton pictures and pictures of my gram’s chilis and pepper plants that wiltered after the last frost they got. I’ll be sharing those with you. More coming tomorrow!
Tomorrow, we leave for Cooter, Missouri. Yes, that is the name of the town. If you’re wondering where it is:
It’s about 4 hours south of here, just before you get into Arkansas (and borders Tennessee as well). It’s country.
Yes, the population is just 451.
My grams lives here. My dad grew up here. We’re taking the dogs down for Thanksgiving at her home. I plan on using this time to take lots of photos of life and things around town. Other than the way my grams can drive me completely nuts, I do enjoy the fact that it’s a more simple way of life there. I just wonder if I’ll even have cell service. Might be good for me.
I’m sad though that I’ll miss the cotton in full bloom. When we were there last 4th of July, I shot it as it was starting to grow:
The cotton gin is just up the road from my grams’ house. I wonder if there will be remnants of it lying around I can use my macro lens on. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, we leave tomorrow morning and come back on Saturday. I hope everyone has an amazing Thanksgiving week!
Let me preface this with, “OMG at that space and lighting”. Okay, now, my post.
Saturday was the St. Louis Blogger’s Guild meeting and Dana asked me if I could quick take a headshot for her. She took me down into this AMAZING space in their building at Shock City. HELLO. Yeah, Nice light. Tall ceilings. Open for anything.
You can see from the upper right, where one of the many windows was. It goes all along two sides of the room. And, it was an overcast day. I could so see myself in a place like this. It’s in my near future, I can feel it.
Normally, I find myself photographing dogs. Which I absolutely LOVE. As well as the Lollipop Smiles wacky headshots. Which always make me giggle. But, I do enjoy a good headshot session. Speaking of, I need to get my main photography portion of my website done (when I find that time).
Thanks again, Dana, for letting me oogle over that space! And, if you’re in STL and you blog, why not consider the guild?
So, yeah, I’m one of those people.
I jumped on that bandwagon too.
Had to see the flick, will go again probably with mom.
My thoughts?
The book was better to me. Only because it allowed me to use my own imagination. I think there were a lot of details left out and too much wasted time in the film. You know, the goo-goo eyes and that sort of thing. Some of it was a little silly. Like the people playing the parts of Carlisle and Esme, as well as Charlie just seemed too young for the parts. I spent more time trying to figure out what else they played in. And, well, other than that, I was happy that they updated the film a bit – including cell phones, etc.
All-in-all, it wasn’t bad. I am glad to hear that the next book will be on film soon too. Hopefully they will take some of the feedback and make that one better.
Here’s Michelle waiting in line – not that the theater was crowded at all! Screaming girls though – yikes!
We had been at a Blogger’s Guild meeting and a wine tasting before all this. Long day! 
There’s my 100 Days of Moo shot from the theater.
And finally, yes, Edward was dreamy!
So, if you’ve read the books, sure, go see the flick. Michelle hadn’t read the books, but I hear she rushed out to get them after watching (and wondering based upon the ending).
Go when the kids are in school – less tweens!
