it's rodeos and county fairs...

|| post title from  t h i s  song ||

we spent the evening at our county fair last monday. mostly we just walked around, smelled the delish carnival food (and the not-so-delish smells in the barns), ran into old classmates, walked through tons of 4H animal exhibits, listened to the screams from the carnival, and had a picnic on the grass. and i took loads of carnival bokeh pictures and played around with manual mode. (manual mode is fabulous, guys)

it was just basically all awesomeness, and i've decided the county fair is my favorite part of summer. 

xx. marcia

p.s. speaking of shooting in manual mode, i listened to the live stream of Jasmine Star + her second shooter / hubby JD's workshop on "The Art of Second Shooting" and woah, woah, woah. i just kinda want to go second shoot a wedding, like now. practically, i am so not there yet, but this was the best motivational course ever. it was the bomb-diggity. 

(and it's actually rebroadcasting >>here<< right now, and you should totally go listen to it.)

summer happiness || inspiration

*all photos via tumblr or pintrest*


// bright colours //
// fresh fruit //
// green //
// sunshine //
// ice cream //
// county fairs //
// flip-flops and barefeet //

a couple of days ago, I went on a random summer inspiration rampage. and well, this was the result. 

also, I made a summer playlist. these are some of my favorites: happy and dance-worthy. :) I think this entire playlist could be the anthem of summer.
if summer was a song to you, what song would it be?
xxx. marcia

first cookout + photo challenge winner

summer is here. we had our first watermelon last week and I went to the first cookout of the year!!

// hamburgers // marshmallows // watermelon //

// chips // flowers // campfires // picnic ants // smoothies // sunshine

AND: I am so excited to announce the winner of the photo challenge :

Kyla!! 

congrats, girl! your photo was amazing!!

The County Fair!!

Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry....I know its been a week, but I do have a really good reason, the County Fair!! Our business has had a booth in the fair for the last 5 years, so we always get to spend a lot of time there. I was at the fair every day (its 5 days!) but, some of the days were only half days. It does make you tired....anyways we had a blast! Last night was the last rodeo and we always go to it cause it is the "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" rodeo and also the rodeo that they crown the new "Larimer County Queen". Here are some pictures I took. Sorry some are blurry, it is sooo hard to get good pictures. Okay...this next photo is suppose to be down a ways, but oh well. bull riding! ouch! that doesn't look very comfortable

barrel racing, my favorite!

in three nights of rodeos, this girl got the highest score, she was FAST "ride 'em cowgirl!"

The horses are absolutely gorgeous

steer wrestling, the clown said "I didn't know a steer could leave skidmarks!" bronco riding! team roping!

the new 2012 Larimer County Queen

the 2011 queen, her lady-in-waiting, and Miss Rodeo Colorado

fireworks!!!

flowers

one of the vendors had a bunch of cute, chunky, necklaces, but they were $75, so bye-bye

Okay, here are a bunch of photos from the 4-H barns

this was the cutest kid {no pun intended :) }

the bunnys were so cute!

Well, I guess thats all,
♪♫♪♫♪ Happy Trails to You! ♪♫♪♫♪