A few weeks ago I attended my husbands company picnic. It’s always fun to bring my camera (it gives me something to hide behind!) and take some candid shots of everyone having a good time. I love photographing kids being kids, and dogs being dogs! There were so many cute photos and I was so excited to do a blog post! There was lots of fun and games for the kids, and I even got a few pictures of some adults (so unlike me!). My favorite pictures are the last few pictures of little Alex totally hamming it up for the camera! Click here to take a peek: www.juliemelfiphotography.com/KCDL. Ahhh, summertime!!

I hope you are enjoying every minute of August and spending lots of time with the people you love!

For six weeks I have been working at an office building that houses the oldest construction company in Portland, Oregon. Cali comes to work with me many days and on our mini walks around the grounds outside I kept seeing all kinds of cool textures, colors, and a couple of really cool old cars that I thought would be fun to photograph. So, one day last week I decided to bring my camera to work and take a few shots of what I was seeing, just for fun. (I had hopes of catching a few pictures of Cody the Labradoodle too, but turns out he didn’t come to work that day So sad!)

So here is my creative experiment in finding beauty in everyday junk

We thought we had a really loud bird in our backyard, but it turns out we have a cute little squirrel that we have decided to call Skippy. He is making a mess of our hazelnut tree and he is very vocal, he’s lucky he is so darn cute! I have talked to him a few times and he looks at me like he understands every word He does not like it when Cali tries to see who I am talking to and he takes off as fast as he can!

It’s a good thing that I’m not too interested in harvesting the hazelnuts, or he’d be in trouble! (being so cute helps too!!)