Downtown Frederick

Well the weather warmed up this weekend and made it bearable to go outside and shoot my town of Frederick. I just went downtown and walked around a bit. I mostly had my fisheye with me so I took mostly the churches. Frederick has many many churches, all with beautiful steeples. I have a few to show but I think Im going to try and blog in categories. But for now here is just a few of the buildings from my short walk the other day.
One of my favorite buildings, it is a modern restaurant on the inside where I accidentally ordered sheep brain. Not kidding. But I love to drive by and admire it from the outside.


Our river walk, with the overlooking condos. During the summer it is really nice to walk along the canal with some amazing homemade ice cream from the local cafe.
This is our City Hall, I will take better pictures of everything later, just wanted to post something for you to look at.

Merry Christmas!

I told you earlier, that this year I found a Frasier Fir for our Christmas tree... Here it is all decorated. It turned out pretty nice, the only thing was hanging heavy ornaments. Thats what a Noble Fir is good for. I know its hard to see but my favorite decorations are my red wood beads, wood candycanes, and the childhood ones I remember getting excited about hanging as a kid. I also decorated the back porch since there wasn't any room to put up my primative trees in teh house. I love my primative trees, with all the old ornaments to go with them. I have a tree covered all in old cookie cutters and tin chocolate molds. This year I also bought another little tree. I just couldnt pass it by, it was too cute. I love how I finally found a use for my old red wagon.

All Gizzy wanted from Santa was a empty box to play in....

The kitties loved the tree of course. Gizzy would sleep all day underneath it. But its really amazing how i got both dogs to stay and somewhat look at me for these pictures. Moose is camera shy and hates touching Maya. Its really like a brother and sister who have cooties. But I guess he humored his mama, and smiled pretty for all of you to see.

Home Shots

All right I have finally taken pictures of the before and after.... I know that I have been making a bunch of you wait. Sorry but I could only paint so fast. The trim is a deep red and and the walls a light sandy shade of cream. It took 4 to 5 coats of paint to do the trim! Ive only accomplished the living room and dinning room.... everything eles is still incomplete. One of these days soon I hope I will be done fixing and painting this darn house. I might think twice the next time about a fixer upper or at least not paint the trim red. But in the end I love it and it was so worth the work. Hope you like it also.



Before..... living room.





Dinning Room.





Entryway.












After Living Room.... Dinning Room.....

Entryway...

Twilight Nut Jobs

Gotta tell Sarah thanks so much for everything. She is the one who ventured out into the freezing weather to humor me with my lumberjack adventure.... She took the pictures and did a great job. I took a few of her all bundled up cuz we were crackin eachother up. But in the end it was tooooo cold to play much.

Sarah lives across the street and has become a fast friend. Other than our common interest in photography, we laugh about just how much we do have in common. She has made the last couple months go by so quick. I have really been lucky with the great neighbors I have, except for one that hates our dogs and has called the police on us this summer..... will bring you up to date on that event later. But most of all Sarah and I have the same sad obsession with the Twilight series. They are great books for the hopeless romantic and isn't just for the younger girls. Actually all my friends and read it and loved them.... the movie in my opinion... not so great. But I recommend the books to anyone. LOVE THEM! So thanks again Sarah for everything, your a great bud.

Dad, this is for you.....

I decided this year to go cut down my Christmas Tree.... so I had to wear the appropriate lumberjack wear.... I think it really helped having suspenders on out there. I searched high and low for the perfect tree... A Noble Fir of course. But no luck.

So I ended up settling for a Frasier Fir this year out here in Maryland. It looked like a beautiful day with the bright blue sky but actually it had snowed the night before and froze. And today I awoke to wiping winds that took our breath away. I wanted so badly to do this for my Dad, I braved the 28 degree weather with a terrible windchill, to get these for him. Its not the same as WA, that is for sure! I just couldnt stop smiling because we were having so much fun. A little different from the grumpy old lumberjacks back home huh Dad?