Barefoot Tootsies

Selfie buddies!!!  love his brown eyes!!  So sweet and small!  basking in the dying light...   Some roadside queen Ann's lace...perfect for some shadow fun!! Funny how much I use my rings as props!!  Sunlight!!  New sunglasses!!  He is actually quite a good poser!!  Camera selfies are quite challenging.  haha, I didn't even ask him to be casual, he just posed like this, trying not to snort and embarrass him...    Signing out now!! Hope ya'll enjoy your day and week!! Abigail Leilani

Yesterday evening ended with one of the most beautiful displays of color, cloud and light I have ever seen. (earlier that evening) Hopping onto my bike, and calling my little brother Timothy to do likewise, I mentally debated on whether I should bring my camera with me, the evening was nothing special, the end of a tortuously hot day, and a breeze was finally making the weather bearable.   As I began pedaling out of the driveway, my Always Be Prepared side kept nagging, and I knew I had made a mistake the minute my Lazy/Scared to Break My Camera Side kicked in and told me it was no big deal. I shrugged, I should spend time with Timothy anyway. The bike ride started off weird. A truck was parked on the side of the road, I figured they were late fishers and would leave us alone. I glanced behind me, making sure Timothy was still on his bike and safe,  I really don't like him riding behind me. When I looked back around, the fishers were boarding their vehicle. I loo...

Discovering ones self is an exciting adventure, in which the participants are constantly being awed, intrigued, amazed, and disgusted. You find yourself liking certain things that you never even thought about as a younger child: Like what clothes to wear, or what food to eat, or what books and movies to watch. Finding how much you love something so much and don't know how you din't see it before, like a style of skirt or a kind of bread. simple things such as that that all my life until now, I have let my mother take care of for me. And now. Now I want to be in control. Now I want to express myself wholly and completely. Express my true self and what has been lying dormant for so many years. I want to be a photographer, and I want to start a business called "Barefoot Photography". I love high wasted skirts and full blouses. I love teal and other earthy colors such as green and brown. I love my fuzzy curly wild hair. I embrace my life as a simple farmgirl. A...

Thursday morning at 3:23 AM, a very dear friend of mine gave birth to a beautiful baby girl: Rosalie Elizabeth Lusk, she is 7LBs 8oz and 21in long. Jared and Rachel lovingly adoring their new little bundle of joy!! Mama holding baby Rosalie. 

So...yeah...the title says it all. I'm sixteen, and waiting for the ball to start rolling...and waiting...and waiting. You all should know, I've never been a patient person, three weeks is way to long to wait for me. I just pulled out my favorite Disney movie the other day: Sleeping Beauty. I just about chocked on my popcorn when I realized that she   is only fifteen when she is dancing and singing through the woods (I also would like to know her secret for sounding and looking like she is thirty). And I also noticed that after meeting Phillip and dancing with him for a bit, she lets him drape his arm around her shoulder like they are old lovers, it would be safe to guess that I was choking on my popcorn an awful lot as several more things became clear. In other words, the whole point of me bringing that up is that...sixteen isn't in any way how they show it in the movies (or even books for that matter). In my distant childhood daydreams, at this time in my life ...