not what we had planned, but better...

on saturday I decided I wanted to see the butterfly exhibit at the botanical gardens

and

since my hubby goes along with pretty much anything I suggest

~one of the many reasons I love him~

off we went with all my lenses

not knowing what I'd need for the best shots

~~

only to discover 3o minutes later

that everyone else within a 60 mile radius and their uncle had the same idea

so

after one quick look at the ticket line while driving by

I said, "screw this" and we headed to the back of the parking lot to turn around

where

all of a sudden a little garden jumped out at me which made me jump out of the car

and

start shooting with my itchy camera fingers

~~

BUT

then as I came around the corner of the garden

I looked at john to see if he was looking at the same thing I was

and

he was

and

we laughed and smiled and took off to get a closer look at what turned out to be an amazing

abandoned warehouse

and

immediately I was all mushy like

and

saying things like

"oh fabulous old building where have you been all my life"

"I need you for photo shoots"

and

then john gently took the camera from me and said it was his turn to take photos of me

so I let him

even though I'm not happy at all being in front of the camera

which is a disease photographers suffer from

you know

we ended up taking tons of photos

as this building just screamed for the attention we were giving it

the graffiti really didn't make any sense for the most part

but it was amazing and beautiful and I couldn't get enough of it

and

the ivy

oh my god the ivy

so now you have it

give me a choice of butterflies or an old abandoned warehouse

ahhhh

you're all starting to know me so well

*

{and the rest of the weekend....well part of it's over here}