Spring is in the Air

Am I lucky or what? The photo above is what I saw last week as I stepped outside of the stairwell from the underground parking structure and headed towards my office. Although there was a little frost on the ground, there is no doubt that spring is in the air when you see the beautiful trees, bursting with blossoms.

My friend Traci and I have a special tradition. Every Spring, we get my daughter and her dogs together for a Spring photo shoot in the Capitol Mall area. Since the blossoms are perfect for only a week or so, we prayed that the weather would stay nice for us, and that the rain wouldn't come and knock off all of the blossoms.

Of course, we took billions of photo's, ok, perhaps only hundreds, but we had a great time. It was a beautiful sunny day and I picked Amelia up from daycare around 10 o'clock and we spent an hour or so in the capitol mall. Of course the puppies were the most well behaved, same story as last year, but Amelia had a blast and was very excited to be with her canine friends.

This is Echo, such a sweet dog, perfect size for Amelia too, it was funny to hear her say "pom (come) on Echo", and watch her carefully hold the leash.

Kant didn't want to miss out and joined Amelia and Echo.

And of course, we couldn't leave Pita out.



Talk about a connection...I wonder what they are both thinking.


As usual, hands on hips.


Chilling out by the Sprague Fountain,


I honestly believe that this is possibly the most beautiful dog in the world, not to mention a champion. What a lovely photo of Kant.


We had lots of time to run.


Here they are together, with the State Capitol Building in the background.

Amelia seemed very curious about the dogs tail.

I love these next couple of photo's, especially since they seem to capture the joy in Amelia's face.


Action shots...



Giving the pup a branch to hold


Life is good!

Jordana and Amelia take the dogs back to the car, time to go home.


I loved spending a couple of hours of my work day with my little girl and seeing how excited she was to be under the "popcorn" trees, with the dogs.

Spring is the best!