Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Stills

at.the.center
morning.landscape
peeking.out

Happy Birthday to my Mama! If you and Dad are up to your usual tricks, sometime later today he'll ask you what he bought you for your birthday, and then you'll go get it to show him because you purchased it last week. I bought myself a macro lens for your birthday. I hope you like it. I took these pictures for you because I know how much you like flowers and stitching and because I forgot to put your birthday card in the mail on Saturday and because I need to practice with this new lens because I know how you always want me to do my best at everything that I do. Thinking of you this morning and the amount of stillness required to take these compared to my regular zoom lens brought to mind the years you spent trying to keep me still. I hope it was worth it, I remain pretty wiggly. I am thinking I might need to by myself a mini tripod as an early Mother's Day gift to you.

I love you Mama, enjoy your day, you are to be celebrated.
xoxoxo anna & fam

28 comments:

...julia... said...

Love your family antics :) my family likes to do silly things like this too!

Happy Birthday to your Mom!

Mary Lynn said...

Thank you for my beautiful bouquet!
Mom

Lauren Hawley said...

Happy Birthday, Anna's mom! Anna you crack me up! The stills are stunning. And now i'm off to buy MYSELF a macro lens for your mom's birthday too. I'm such a copycat.
XO, Lauren

Oh and thank you for the lovely hand written note...so sweet!

Karin said...

Haha. You must have a wonderful family. And happy birthday Anna Maria's Mom! :-D

Catherine Denton said...

Love this! Thanks for the laugh today. And Happy Birthday to your sweet Mother!
Catherine Denton

Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...

Sounds like a family that celebrates in the ways that work for them, with love. I like this. Happy birthdays, to all.

MandMStudio said...

Such a beautiful post :)

jane said...

the close-up of the stitching is, of course, absolutely lovely!
happy birthday celebration all around ;-)

claudia said...

Happy Birthday Anna maria's Momma. I hope your day is the best ever!

Anonymous said...

That's funny. I just bought myself a pressure cooker for your mom's birthday. I'm sure she'll be happy I did. :-)

LOVE the pics. The macro lens is an awesome business write-off too!

Happy blessed birthday, AMH's mom! Eat cake!

Fairy Tale Mama said...

Lovely photos. :-)

Nicola said...

That first beautiful photo has made my day so I'm sure it will make your Mom's day too. My husband got the hint and just bought me a macro lens for my birthday. Much harder to figure out what to do with it than I expected!

tubilinha tiacarminha said...

Háhá,você esquece correio,mas não perde a piada...FELIZ ANIVERSÁRIO MÃE DE AMH.MUITOS ANOS DE VIDA.

Jule said...

I love the colours. They are so strong and soft at the same time...wonderful

Hot Fudge said...

It was my birthday on Saturday and the family gave me gift cards and cash, bless them. Of course, I will be buying some AMH fabric with the proceeds - almost up there with your mother!

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nikko said...

I bought myself a macro lens in November and the learning curve has been huge! Your dahlia is gorgeous!

Ginette said...

Happy belated Birthday to your Mom!!

Bobbi Trim said...

Amazing colors! I also love that you bought yourself the lens for your mom's b'day! That way you both wind up with gifts...perfect!

frannie said...

hi what kind of camera

Anna Maria said...

hi frannie, canon EOS 40D :)

electric scooters said...

On the fabrics flowers designs are look so beautiful and colorful.I really like this designs of the flowers.It look so different.

ba_bum said...

I love your work, beautiful colors...

Daly @ WritingTemplates said...

We are a pretty happy family but we don't do celebrations and gifts. The only thing we do when it's somebody's birthday is to buy them a cake. :) Creamy white one for me, and chocolate one for Woolf, my brother.

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