Several weeks ago, Ashley sent me a photo challenge. I’ll be honest (and I’ve told her this directly), I was a bit intimidated by her challenge…only because I don’t think I’ve ever fully removed a hand from a newborn photo like this. Now that I think about it though, the concept of removing any background is roughly the same – I don’t know what I was so worried about. Anyways, I put a star by it in my inbox and finally came back to it last night. By the way, if you ever wondered how to achieve this pose with newborns…here’s how you do it....

…to share a few animal photos. Actually, when I saw that Mandy’s  (a Sorta Fairytale) photo challenge this week was “snoozing,” I could only think of one photo (outside of the one that my husband caught of me and Kitty Paw last night). This summer we visited the North Carolina Zoo. It was HOT! Many of the animals were resting due to the heat, but I went to great lengths to capture the lion taking a snooze. You see, he was laying right up against the wall of his space…so, I had to lean over the wall in order to get this photo. I think another tourist actually...