The past few weeks have been super busy! Thanks everyone for your business! Today on the blog is a headshot shoot I did recently....stay tuned to the blog all week for more posts! And remember to like my Facebook page to stay updated on what's going on!

Brian and I met recently at a networking mixer. He is a publisher for Best Version Media...a company that publishes neighborhood magazines. The first publication for Somersett/Caughlin Ranch is coming out in July and Brian needed a headshot portrait for it. We went downtown to Wingfield Park for the photoshoot:

I am super excited to be working with Brian on cover shoots for the magazines. Yesterday I shot the August cover for the Somersett/Caughlin Ranch magazine.....look for it on the blog soon! And later this summer I'll be doing cover shoots for the Arrowcreek magazine.

Last week my husband Jason and I went to the local plant nursery and bought a container of ladybugs to help take care of the aphid problem in our yard. Jason is a home brewer and he grows his own hops for his beer and the aphids are all over the hop plants. After releasing some ladybugs on several evenings we started noticing some strange black and orange bugs. We did some research and learned they were ladybug larvae! I had no idea that ladybugs go through a 4 stage life cycle similar to butterflies! We have since found all four stages of life in our yard:

We are pretty excited to have lots of ladybugs in our yard! Here are a few more shots of our little friends:

And here is one hard at work eating an aphid!

Also one of our roses started to bloom this week!

And of course these photos are brought to you with the help of Kiwi the big dog!

Be sure to check back soon because one of these days I might venture outside of my own backyard  ;)

Here are some shots of springtime in our yard here in Reno! Enjoying the fact that this year our yard is green and blooming instead of brown and dead like when we moved in last year!

A few more lupine shots:

Our golden chain tree is looking awesome!

And some other pretty flowers and critters:

And of course assistant Kiwi was on hand to "help"!