IT'S ALL IN THE LENSE

Yes you guessed it

Bethany!

a pergola at the pool house

because pool equipment needs to be housed and it's not that pretty

and speaking of not pretty

no matter how hard I try...

(hmmm...maybe THAT'S the problem...I don't really try hard enough)

 no matter how hard I might wish I try

I can never really capture the essence of what I see with my camera 

or maybe that IS the problem...

I don't really see...but rather 

FEEL 

and how can a camera be expected to capture a feeling???

(ok...well some can!)

you simply cannot imagine how incredibly lucky I feel to have come so far

 and sadly, just as the summer winds to its end

Most hot dry windy Texas summers leave me lovin' me some Fall 

But this year, I am hanging on the the still hot days because

1. I vividly remember painting these old auction pots Santorini Blue

just wishing for the day they would be by the pool

( Loi?  you can barely catch a glimpse of next year's blue garden among the armillary)

2.  I vividly remember buying these lanterns on sale at Hobby Lobby while I was supposed to be shopping for a mother of the bride dress...wow!  THAT was a long time ago!

3.  I vividly remember my sister giving me this cool candelabra for my summer birthday and buying that gothic arch planter and sneaking in that "it'll do" bistro set among 48 gallons of paint from ACE

4.  I also vividly remember picking up these sea shells in Port Aransas and Punta Cana

and even though my photography leaves much to be desired

I most certainly VIVIDLY remember this

so while my camera seems to do just fine at capturing the ugly stuff

you'll just have to come sit with me by the clean blue water near the cedar pergola,

where we'll drink ourselves some pumpkin beer 

and discuss exactly why it is that umbrellas will not stand up straight!

and FEEL how pretty it really looks!