The Day we fed our leaf Bouquet to Goats. . .

It started out as a fun, autumn themed photoshoot; but along the way we had crazy hair thanks to the wind, goats eyeing our handpicked maple leaves, threw armfuls of leaves up into the air and just generally had a good time. ;)
 {But then again, we always have a good time out on our friends' hobby farm...;)}

It was windy . . . but delightfully so. ;)

Love these lil' girls... :)

Yes,yes...always got to get in my leaf portraits...

Gotta love how only a few hairs decided to go with the wind...little rebels!

And then- having made the most of our whimsical bouquet . . .

  . . .  we happened to wander over near the field where the goats were busy de-leafing a fallen tree branch . . .

When suddenly- one looks up from his dry, crunchy meal, and espies tender, fresh leaves, tantalizingly near-

I wouldn't consider myself a goat expert, but I imagine what they felt at that moment must have been similar to the elation we would feel on coming upon a piece of chocolate cake after just resigning ourselves to eating stale crackers . . . ;)

Needless to say, they got a lil' excited-  and the fallen branch was immediately forgotten. 

I'd like to be able to say that the goats were unselfish and each one got to partake of this delicacy, but I'm afraid that wouldn't be the truth . . . a bit of headbutting occurred as a result. ;D

It was fun. :D

Through His Grace,

                                         ~Jenny

A Long Overdue Explanation . . .

 This picture is VERY important.

Why?
Oh, it's just the last picture I took before my camera got up close and personal with the concrete sidewalk ... Yeah... In my defense, it was a VERY cold day out. And I was putting on my gloves. And cold hands just don't respond very quick. And I was already bending down and it only dropped about a foot...Unfortunately though, while I was optimistic that no damage had been done (I have, erm, *experience* in dropping cameras it seems...) I couldn't help but notice that when I tried to take a picture the next minute, my viewfinder was all blurry. . . and the auto focus motor just kept spinning in and out . . . and when it finally did take the picture, it focused on somewhere entirely different than I'd planned!

I tried using Manual focus and that worked fine . . .

But manual focus is a little slow when you're photographing moving subjects . . .

So, I begrudgingly had to accept reality and send My Precious off to Nikon's repair center, where it stayed for a long month. Then Christmas and cooking and family coming in happened, and I just did't get back into the swing of posting my pictures once my camera came back! That being said- I have a LOT of pictures to share from the last three+ months! :D

Meanwhile, enjoy these pictures that were taken *before* my camera dropped. ;)

Through His Grace,

                                   ~Jenny