Wow! Photographing a toddler is hard enough! Putting her in a field of flowers to do so, is darn near impossible! Crazy Lu! The bluebonnets are quickly disappearing. With all the rain we have had, and more to come in the days ahead, the grasses and other weeds are growing in around them so quickly! I found this amazing spot to do pictures last Saturday on the way to Brinlee’s birthday party. Just since Saturday, many of the bluebonnets were already hidden. I still managed to find an adequate spot to shoot though. I just needed a more cooperative subject. The instant Lucy saw all the flowers, she was in heaven! It was absolutely precious! She kept shrieking and caressing the flowers. My mistake was I, for some reason, thought she was just going to stay by me until I told her what to do. Yeah right! She bolted off long before I had any equipment ready or my settings put in. I so wish I could have captured her sheer bliss.😞 Next time, I think I am just going to switch to video mode, if something like that happens, and edit from there. At least I won’t miss the moment that way. I loved how much she loved seeing all the flowers.

The nice things about the location we were in was that there was absolutely no one else there in the flowers, Lucy had a huge area to move, and the lighting was almost perfect. (Only a few times did the sun peek through and give some awkward blares of light.)

There were hardly any ants, no poison ivy, and no snakes. We’ll find out about chiggers in the next few days. I’m hoping we escaped those too!

Lucy found a ladybug in the flowers and loved just watching it go in and out of the leaves. The main challenge I had, aside from toddler on speed, was that there was a cemetery behind the area we were in, with an iron fence going around it. Any shots I wanted to get of Lucy in the sunset had the fence behind her. I kept trying to lure her another direction, but that didn’t persuade her desires in the slightest. Toddler mind made up is usually what stays. Luckily she realized that her boots had mud on them, so she sat down in some of the flowers. That helped in cutting out the fence.

There was a really nice man visiting the cemetery, who stopped to watch Lucy run through the flowers. Once she noticed him watching her, I managed to get quite a few good shots. She stopped long enough to say hi and listen to him tell her how much she looked like a little flower angel. It was really sweet. At least she had a wonderful time. I heard all about it the whole way home. 😊❤️