I'm a published wedding and portrait photographer located in a small town outside of Charlottesville. In addition to capturing beautiful images, I love spending time with my family, am freakishly good at word games (Hey Wheelmobile!), love an ice cold can of Coke or Dr. Pepper, know every line to Hocus Pocus and can never pass up a Chick-fil-A waffle fry or a trip to HomeGoods. 

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Travel Tuesday: Chiles Orchard

Things have been a little quiet on the blog front recently. That’s mostly because my husband and I were in a car accident last Sunday. It wasn’t our fault and thankfully noone was injured, but with car accidents come rental cars, insurance claims, sore backs and stiff necks and all that fun stuff so we’ve […]

May 25, 2016

Travel, Virginia Day Trips

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Travel Tuesday: The Market at Grelen

I’m a huge summer fan and one of my favorite things to do in the warmer weather is pick fruits and vegetables. A great local place to do that is The Market at Grelen. Located on the 600-acre Grelen nursery in Somerset, the market offers a cafe, garden shop, workshops, pick-your-own fruit and more. It’s […]

May 10, 2016

Travel, Virginia Day Trips

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Foodie Friday: Blue Mountain Brewery

Maybe it’s because it has been raining for the past 11 days or maybe it’s because we just had our fence installed (more on that in a future blog post), but I’m dreaming of amazing outdoor spaces. One of my favorite belongs to Blue Mountain Brewery. Located on the Nelson 151, Blue Mountain was actually […]

May 6, 2016

personal, Virginia Day Trips

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Travel Tuesday: Lewis Ginter

One of my favorite places to visit is the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond. It’s one of the nation’s best botanical gardens and is absolutely gorgeous. I love the displays they create during the Christmas season, but I also love seeing all of the flowers during the spring and summer. It’s a great place […]

April 26, 2016

Travel, Virginia Day Trips

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Foodie Friday: Citizen Burger Bar

So tonight, for the first time in weeks, my husband and I went out to dinner at a new (to us) restaurant. With the warm weather and our close proximity to Charlottesville, we decided to try Citizen Burger Bar, which is located in the Downtown Mall area. Citizen Burger Bar is just what it sounds […]

March 18, 2016

personal, Virginia Day Trips

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Travel Tuesday: Virginia Safari Park

One of my favorite places opened for the season last Saturday–the Virginia Safari Park. The park, which has been voted one of the top 10 animal attractions in the nation, is a 180-acre drive-through zoo located in Natural Bridge. Visitors purchase buckets of food at the entrance and then drive through, feeding the more than […]

March 15, 2016

Travel, Virginia Day Trips

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Travel Tuesday: Cherry Blossoms

One of my favorite things to do each spring is visit the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C. Each spring, thousands of cherry trees bloom through the nation’s capital. The trees were a gift from the mayor of Tokyo in 1912 to commemorate the lasting friendship between the two countries. Now granted, the first batch of […]

March 8, 2016

Travel

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Travel Tuesday: The National Zoo

This unusually warm, sunny late February early March weather has me dreaming of spring and one of my favorite spring activities–visiting the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. I love this zoo, which is owned by the Smithsonian Institution. It’s free for visitors and all the animals look super happy and very well cared for unlike […]

March 1, 2016

Travel

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Travel Tuesday: Atlantic Beach

During the last Travel Tuesday, I focused on Cape Lookout, which is a place Ron and I spend a day during our trips to Atlantic Beach. Now, I’ll focus on Atlantic Beach itself. We first started traveling to the Emerald Isle/Atlantic Beach area a few years ago and most recently visited in the fall. However, […]

February 24, 2016

Beach Vacations, Travel

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Travel Tuesday: Cape Lookout

Each summer, my husband, Ron, and I spend a week in the Outer Banks, Nags Head area with his family. We also tend to visit by ourselves in the spring or fall, traveling from Corolla to Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke, but one of our favorite areas is farther south. We first went to Emerald Isle […]

February 16, 2016

Beach Vacations, Travel

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