Shawna Noel Photo Blog

October 14, 2009

Early winter

Weather-wise, it's been an unimpressive year here in the Midwest. It was a cold spring, a cool summer, and now we are skipping fall and heading straight for winter (or so it seems.) The leaves on the trees haven't had time to change color; they are just falling off green.

Yesterday I met up with my favorites girls, Megan and Claire, to play in the leaves.

Here's Megan, getting buried in leaves!

And Kory

And me!

I love Claire's face here ... throwing leaves can be scary, right?

I asked Kory to take a photo of me jumping into the pile of leaves. This is what I got ::

I love this photo ::

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September 8, 2009

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Fall weather, already?

We took a quick trip to the lake over labor day and a fair amount of leaves were already changing ... after all this cool weather during the summer, are we in for an early fall?

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August 27, 2009

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Oh my, how our garden grew!

This summer we planted a garden. We planted peppers and corn, broccoli and kohlrabi, peas and carrots on a sunny plot in the southern section of Grand Forks. When we first planted all of the little plants, we weren't too confident they would survive. It was a cool spring. The plants didn't look so good. But then, about a month in to our garden project, things really sprung up! Soon we were up to our elbows in peas and green beans. The tomatoes are all starting to ripen now, and soon we should have lots of squash, pumpkins and watermelon.

Now as summer is coming to a close, here's a look back on our garden ::

The first week, back in mid-May, when Matt and Kory planted everything ::

I kept these boots in my car for random trips out to the garden ::

The garden, mid-July ::

Some of our first veggies were peppers ::

And onions ::

And kohlrabi ::

Yum!

Here are some photos I shot today ::
Still more peppers!

The corn is almost ready!

Watermelons on the grow!

Fresh-picked carrots ::

Cantaloupe (or muskmelon) ::

A baby pumpkin ::

And a huge pumpkin (hanging off of a tomato stand -- those pumpkin vines grow everywhere!) ::

You can see, pumpkins are everywhere!

OK, this is not in our garden, but in the neighbor's. I love how cool cabbage looks!

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July 27, 2009

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A snappy reunion, of sorts

At Saturday's wedding, there were FIVE Shawna Noel Photography brides and grooms at Amanda + Brandon's big day! It was so cool to see everyone again. We just had to take a photo ::

From left to right, we've got
Steph + Brad
Tallie + Danny
Kristin + Brett
Amanda + Brandon (no blog post ... yet!)
Katie + Travis

(Plus Shawna "Metal Mouth" Noel and Kory "I love squatting" Wallen)

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July 7, 2009

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Newport sneak peak

We are pausing our regularly scheduled wedding blog posts to bring you a quick preview from our fun last weekend in Newport, RI ... the weather was gorgeous and we had a lot of fun!