A Little Rainy Day Stroll-Melissa Ide Photography

A Little, Rainy Day Stroll

Melissa Ide Photography

I had a few minutes before the Seattle Seahawks game was to come on television, so I wandered outside in the rain for a few quick shots.  I love raindrops!

Puyallup Nature Photography - {Melissa Ide Photography}

I have been waiting for weeks for my lillies to open up, and they have finally done so.  Managed to get outside a few different times and caught them in different light.  Also took a few shots in the back yard.



Puyallup Children Photographer - {Melissa Ide Photography}

Sophia - 13 months

Puyallup children photographer - {Melissa Ide Photography}

Went out to catch a few shots of our thistles, ended up getting a few of those but quite a few of Sophia as well.  Decided to share some of each.

Part One of ...

our road trip to Port Townsend, Washington.  Last Friday we took a drive toward Port Townsend, our goal, visit the beach at low tide.  This was going to be our daughter's first road trip while our boys were spending quality time with their grandma.  

Here are some images from the trip....

Before we left on our trip I decided to add one more friend for the road... Pookie.  Pookie is my giant teddy bear, he's a photo prop from Costco, and we kinda like him.  I thought it would be fun to bring Pookie along and pose him in different places that we stopped.  I think he will be making more trips with us in the future so keep watching to see where he turns up next. 

And you should have seen all of the looks that we received, they were awesome.  Many good times had on what turned out to be a beautiful Washington day.

Road Trip To...

the Finnriver Cidery in Chimacum, Washington, Friday early morning drive.  My husband gave me such a hard time on the drive over;  it looked as if we were going to leave the sunshine to go spend the day in the clouds.  I had the last laugh as the clouds burned off and we enjoyed a splendid day in the sun.  My post will be backwards, we started the day on the beach and those images will come soon.  First, I thought I'd share some of the pictures that I took as we toured the farm.

How did I pick this place?  It came up on an event calendar linked to our trip to the beach, so we decided to check it out.  Now, neither of us drink anymore so we wondered what we would do on the farm.  Apparently, we would take a guided tour of the fields with the farm dog, Pippin.  Pippin would wander ahead of us and lay down near the path.  When we would get close Pippin would get up and walk down to the next rest stop and wait.  I thought it was adorable.  Unfortunately, Pippin wandered off before I could get a picture, I guess more people stopped by for a tasting.      

The farm is beginning to grow things like Hops.

Finnriver is trying to rebuild the area around their creek and at each of these fish was an information board related to the land and their efforts to revitalize the area organically.

Some of the U-Pick blueberries that were not quite ready.

Beautiful bloom, very tiny tree.  Future orchard on the farm.

The main man crowing away.  He stood in front of us and flapped and crowed.  It was awesome.

Then he gave us the stare before he led the hens to the back of their pen.

We enjoyed our trip, Sophia saw her very first chickens and we enjoyed the quiet.