keeping busy.

and these flowers are keeping me very happy

Senior Portraits ::Kami::

This is Kami.  She is graduating!

I love taking senior portraits.  End of high school always means the beginning of everything else.  I love hearing their dreams and goals.  That time of life is just so exciting!

Congrats class of 2012!  

If you are still interested in getting Senior Portraits IT'S NOT TOO LATE!  I'm still offering my $75 special and turn-around is really quick! (That way you can send your announcement off to grams and pappy asap so they can be proud of you and spoil you with goodies!)  win-win right?

contact me  cathorley{at}gmail{dot}com

Christine & Jon {engagements}

Photographing this lovely couples wedding today! I got teary eyed when we did their "first glance" bridals....cross your fingers I make it through the day professionally composed will ya? It's amazing to me how quickly I feel that I know that people I photograph. We met face to face only minutes before these photos were taken, and I am happy to now call them my friends. So excited to be a part of their big day!

I am a mother

For some reason this mother's day felt personal.  I'm no more pregnant than I was last year, but it's like something clicked inside of me at church when the man speaking said "mother's, I'm talking to you".  I perked up a bit and paid attention.  

Of course I said my "I love you"s to the mothers in my life.  To my own mother, who is my closest friend and outside of my husband, knows me better than anyone, and always always listens.  To my mother-in-law who is a mother to me not due to the boy that legally makes us family but because of the love and acceptance she's shown me.  I said I love you's to my grandmother's, all unique and wonderful in their own way.  And then I said a sort of "I love you" to myself.  I'm so proud to be a woman.  I so proud to be a nurturer.  I'm so grateful to be a mother.  And though I don't have children of my own I still feel that mother's day was for me too.  Because I am a woman and a nurturer, I am a mother.  And of all the titles in the world, I think I'll bare that one with the most pride.

all images from the glow

summer bbq

the first of the season

Just a quick little hello! Big things have happened in the last few weeks. The biggest: we moved! The second biggest: I accidentally dropped all my spring classes (panic!) and decided it was for the best which means for the first time in a long time I HAVE A SUMMER! This change of space and routine have me in the brightest of spirits. Our new place is a dream! We've been painting like crazy (we say "NO!" to periwinkle and hannah montanna pink). And I'm finally back to my "a place for everything and everything in it's place" ways. Did I ever mention how difficult it was to have two artists (aka collectors of large items neither one is willing to part with) live in 300 sq. feet? Well it was just that: hard. But with a little touch of romantic on the side. though that romance of the old place flew out the window (one of MANY) when we realized it takes more than a few steps to get from our bed to our kitchen & with a door in the way no less! Oh the luxuries! in other happenings, I've been busy busy with photoshoots! Lovely brides and excited seniors! (message me @ cathorley(at)gmail(dot)com if you want to come play with me and henrie (the newest member of my cam-family)) and passing another kidney stone (meh) luckily I've got a lot to distract me from that little bugger. **photo of the "cupboard" (old place), 2 years ago, right after we finished scraping grim off the walls (it was disgusting). I always talked about how I'd do a home tour and never got around to it...I still have some photos that I'll share in this space for personal remembrance. soon. :)