It's Friday, Love

{ When you're having a bad week a glass of wine can help but sometimes a root beer float is even better }

This week has felt heavy. I was off last week so it's always an adjustment transitioning back into the real world, but saying goodbye to summer and all of it's intangible magic can be hard as well. Will things change? Why is traffic so bad? Oh the kids are back in school. How long has it been since I was in school? God I'm old! How many days are there until Christmas?! The days somehow seem impossibly shorter already too and I'm dreading the sky being dark at 4:45 pm. In a couple weeks when it does turn chilly and the leaves start to fall I'll embrace it all with gusto, but for now it makes me a bit sad and I long for last spring and all the new beginnings it brought. 

On a more positive note I've decided to incorporate! Austen Hill is becoming a full fledged business and I'm really excited. In the future this site will be the hub for the blog, my photography business,  writing in-progress and any other creative endeavours I dream up. Speaking of photography, this week I got a look at a finished photo book I shot for a friend of mine. She wanted a special anniversary gift for her husband so we did an amazing shoot a couple weeks ago. They're actually some of the best photos I've ever taken and I wish I could show them to you but alas they're private:). She did agree to let me post the one below which was actually my favorite anyway. 

I'm off to Philly and DC next week for my day job so I'll have some fun posts from the road! Have a great weekend everyone!

{ Took some photos of a friend as a special anniversary gift for her husband }

{ A final leisurely breakfast at home during staycation }

{ My band, Church Hill Music Co., is all social mediaed up! Follow us on facebook here and Twitter @ChurchHillMusic . This is a pic of our banjo player David that I took a while back. }

{ My backyard was the one thing I didn't get to during staycation so I'm trying to tackle that this weekend }