Flower children

You know, it is starting to look quite lovely this fall. All up and down our street there are these gorgeous Black-eyed Susans in bloom. Of course, I'm almost sure they are just weeds (or are they?), but dang they's purty.

Anyway, I took the kids out this past weekend and made them pose for me. Autumn was in her usual almost-13 cranky-ass mood, so I barely got a smile out of her. In fact, I didn't even get any great artsy shots. She was like grimacing and crossing her arms and eating a Tootsie-Pop while I was trying to pose her. I'm all, gimme that dang thing, you aren't two!

So this is my reward:

It's not bad, but it's certainly not the best thing I've taken. And, seriously, as soon as this picture was over it was back to the Tootsie Pop and the scowl. Teenagers. Ger.

Paige, however, fared much better. She was just a regular little model. I am very happy with these. See:


Cuuute! And Paige didn't even balk at me when I asked her to sniff the flower (because we are pretty sure a dog probably peed on it). What a trooper. All for the sake of a good photo.

And you would be right in thinking my brain is already cooking up something special for these babies. They don't call it a one-track Scrapbook Train for nothing.

(Alright, no one calls it that except me. Whatev.)

Gonna scoot now. Work beckons. But before I go, a little reminder to everyone to watch Ugly Betty tonight on ABC. It is sure to be a hoot.