wedding inspiration collage

camera catch up

we have so many photos to sift through from our time at the cottage, so here are some old ones i snapped a few weeks ago at barton nature area to try out my new lens.  (spoiler alert:  it rules).

hopefully we can get all the pictures sorted through soon.  summer is always such a busy time.

hope everybody enjoys the 4th tomorrow!  (or for those of you who do not celebrate the 4th, enjoy your thursday too!)

last weekend part one

once i finally got my photos from the weekend uploaded i realized i had taken hundreds of them.  literally.  so i'll show you our excursion in spurts for now.  as i've been telling you, last weekend we went to the frederick meijer gardens and sculpture park in grand rapids and we had the best time.

both of my parents are originally from grand rapids so i have been visiting the park for my entire life.  it's amazing to see the way it has grown and what used to be just botanical gardens and a butterfly conservatory has transformed into an enormous facility with an outdoor art museum, farm garden, hiking trails, chihuly chandeliers, amphitheater, traveling exhibits and so much more.  grizzly bear is coming to play there in a few months... maybe we'll be heading back for that!  if you are ever in the area and have time for a visit i highly recommend it!

what you won't see pictured is the newest addition to the gardens' permanent collection, an enormous buddha head sculpture by artist zhang huan.  the piece is currently on display at the gardens' indoor showcase gallery along with a traveling exhibit of more of huan's work.  

here are a few more of the photos from our excursion!

hopefully this gives you a little preview of our extremely cool visit.  more pictures will be sure to come soon!

hope everybody has a great second half to the week!

sometimes we don't go to the arb

happy happy happy monday!  (yup today gets 3 happies... fun things are happening at work, but more on that later this week).

i'm going to rewind the weekend a little more slowly than usual because i'm starting to notice my monday posts are getting a little out of control (what can i say, we like to pack our weekend full of fun).

now that steve is done studenting and we are going to be living together, the two of us are really starting to embrace ann arbor as a city instead of just a college campus.  we've been poking around trying to find new corners of the city we haven't yet explored (guess what: there are a TON).

even though we did go to the arb on saturday (the peonies are blooming so i'll post all the pretty pictures later) steve wanted to check out someplace closer to the huron river, so we spent sunday afternoon walking on the boardwalk at gallup park.

shhh i may have told steve to take pictures of me, since there are so rarely any on this blog that don't involve my arm holding out the camera.

hope everybody's week is off to as good a start as ours!