Ready to show off last year's best Holy Places!

As always, I put together a video on my YouTube channel of the top ten most beautiful religious buildings I visited in the previous year. 2024 was a great year! I got some truly gorgeous places. Come check

My husband and I are lifelong Disney fans, with many a trip to the parks under our belts. But one thing that, in all our trips, we had not yet managed, was to see the famous Lilly Belle. The Lilly Belle

This year, we got a new event to attend. The aquarium in Draper, a place we often enjoy going to, played host to a lantern festival, with hundreds of huge and colorful lanterns made to look like creatures

Every year, one of my favorite annual activities around the holiday season is Christmas photoshoots. I've done some fun holiday themes over the years, from fun and whimsical to classically elegant, and

I visited the beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris back in 2012, pre-fire. When the cathedral burned, I was crushed, absolutely devastated. I have been following the progress of the church's reconstruction

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen

It's Halloween, everyone! One of my favorite holidays. (Provided, of course, that I do not have to deal with serious gore. Spooky, good; gory, bad.) A few weeks ago, we ventured out to try a little bit

Yesterday I showed you some of the classic scarecrows at this year's Scarecrow Festival in Lehi, Utah. But there were also a number of creative ones with various themes. You could even vote on your favorites.

We tried a potential new tradition this year! A local garden, Thanksgiving Point, started something new for autumn, the Scarecrow Festival. They event features dozens of classic and creative scarecrows,

One of the neat things about Cabo San Lucas is that is a site for sea lions. I've always liked these particular sea creatures, and I rarely get an opportunity to photograph them in the wild. As we were

The past week or so we have been on a very fun family vacation with my husband's family. We drove down into California and then took a Mexican Riviera cruise from there. On the way down, I managed to sneak

It will forever be a shame to me that autumn colors last such a very VERY short time. Something to take up with the season gods at some future date. LOL But we have a little tradition every year in which

I've already shared some of my images from last weekend's Chalk It Up festival, and now we get to some of my personal favorites. This octopus crashing up through the sidewalk really looked almost

One of my favorite things is going to chalk art shows. I have gone to local chalk art festivals every summer for the past three years, starting with one and then last year adding another. Last weekend

The toucan is one of the most recognizable birds in the world. Known for its large brightly colored bill and the variety of sounds it can make, this bird is also the beloved mascot of the popular cereal

Over the past few weeks I have been madly collecting information about Orthodox churches in the U.S. and in the process, I discovered a few beauties right here in the state of Utah that I had had no clue

Last weekend, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held its twice-annual General Conference. This is a two-day event held in April and October in Utah and broadcast worldwide, during which leaders

This year, I decided to start a new series on my YouTube channel called "Did You Know...?" This is a series of shorts -- each one less than a minute -- covering churches and religions with nifty

This is a continuation of my last post, but this one focuses specifically on a couple of early wedding shoots. This bridal session was taken for a friend of mine who never got bridals for her wedding and