my favorite flowers!

It is azalea season!  We all love it so much!!  We drive around a lot - it's like Leaf Peeping or driving around to check out Christmas lights - only pinker!!

So, we have been going to the local college to take azalea shots for the past few years because they have such gorgeous ones there.  Well, last year they hacked the bushes back to little tiny ones so we had to find a new backdrop.  We decided to check out a local park.  We thought we were close enough to sunset to be catching the Golden Hour of light, but turns out, we were a tad early still.  by the time the shadows fell just right and the light was golden - the kids were done.  So, here's what I got when they were still pretending to be cooperative.....

 taken by Gretchen:

 taken by Carl, seconds later...

 She only picked up blossoms that had fallen to the ground already.