Hi there, friends!

I am feeling a bit under the weather with a sore throat but the sun is shining and the temperatures are supposed to REACH well into the sixties, so I’m going to pretend like I don’t have a sore throat today and just move on!

{should be easy, right?!}

First things first … one of my very best friends, Sarah Viola, who is probably one of the best designers I have EVER come across, graciously agreed to come up with a whole new fresh look for You Capture.  I asked her, she said yes, I told her what I wanted and she delivered perfection on the first try. Love that.

So, with that – here is our new You Capture button!

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Doesn’t it make you want to go pick flowers and take hundreds of photos of grass and buds and butterflies?  Does me.  I love it.  Thank you, Sarah!

(for many of you, if you’ve taken the code directly from the sidebar, it should automatically change, if it doesn’t, by say tomorrow, you may want to add it manually yourself!)  But please, do change!

On to the challenge for this week.  I liked “reaching.”  I certainly wish I had more energy these days to REACH for my camera but I don’t and I’m okay with that being 37 weeks pregnant.

The first thing I thought of with “reaching” was a plant I have in my office.  My sister had it sent to me after we lost the twins.  Since then, it’s been the coolest plant, it has babies (and the most appropriate times!) and it reaches for the sun.  No matter what room I put it in or at what angle, it always turns towards the sun.

When it has babies, it’s leaves are so tiny but within days, literally days, it’s reaching for the sun, just like this:

reaching

Then this morning, I wanted to drive around and capture something reaching outside, the weather is so beautiful and driving around taking photos is one of my favorite things (when I have the energy!)  So today, was a good day for it.

I spotted a wooded lot, with bare trees but not completely bare as there were hundreds of birds hanging out in these trees.  I rolled down my windows and was overwhelmed by the sound filling my ears, their songs reaching out to so many of us.  Many of us who drive by with our windows up, our iPods on the speakers, phones in our hands, having no idea of THE AMAZING that is taking place RIGHT HERE.

It was beautiful.  Also?  For the first time, I was grateful for not having any leaves yet because without them, I was able to see these birds who gave me an awesome moment to start my day; their song reaching my ears.

the birds singing

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Maya Angelou

So, that, my friends, is my You Capture for this week.   I can’t wait to see yours!

(just to give you a heads up, I will be taking two weeks off when the baby is born from You Capture, but my friend, Keli, PHOTOGRAPHER EXTRAORDINAIRE” will be hosting for me!  The details to come next week!)

{DON’T FORGET TO READ THE GUIDELINES, MAN.}

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Ah!  Another beautiful button!

Okay, next week’s challenge is “A MOMENT.”

Happy Capturing!

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