My favorite month, when fall arrives, and I wanted to spend every waking minute outdoors with Ty. I'd been anticipating October from the day we decided to move to New England. I love the crisp air, the changing leaves, the ease of outdoor running. I've long loved shooting portraits in the fall, and I loved my inaugural Halloween at Connecticut Children's. October did not disappoint. I got to visit Texas. Ty and I went to a wedding at the Cape. There were date nights and weddings and babies. It was not a month without heavy days, but life happened, good and bad, beautiful and mundane. Here's a glimpse, in photos.
October 1: After a morning run with her mom, we returned to the house to find Nadine and Moxie Sunday morning-ing like pros.
October 2: Jameson modeled his Halloween costume for me. I mean, months later I still cannot handle the cute.
October 3: Before date night. A lot of the big camera selfies I take of us are pretty straightforward, but I love having them.
October 4: Whiskers.
October 5: I felt so raw. Dark days with Vegas and Puerto Rico and too many kids in the abuse clinic at work and too many sleepless nights on the home front. In our house we believe in honest talk and therapy and hard resets, and boy, that week required just that.
October 6: It was my ongoing friendship with Sam and Lucy's family that caused me to fall in love with New England. I've known them since they were born, and when they moved to Massachusetts almost a decade ago, I started visiting at least once a year. Now they live about an hour away.
October 7: Dinner shenanigans. Photo by Ty.
October 8: All I wanted to do was get in my treadmill run...
October 9: All day, e'ry day.
October 10: The last CSA watermelon.
October 11: A few days before the Hartford Marathon half I ran I was feeling pretty frustrated and whiney about a heel injury that had really hampered my training and took this photo to remind myself to be grateful that I have feet that can run at all.
October 12: Busy little bee.
October 13: My one and only and the beginnings of fall color showing up.
October 14: My first interview at Connecticut Children's included a conversation with my would-be boss about running. Not only is she an incredible boss and leader, she pounds the pavement with the same kind of drive as I do. We both got to run the half for the Connecticut Children's team this year.
October 15: Family photos for this little yogi.
October 16: Sock game on point.
October 17: A watched pot...
October 18: Mom and Dad in Connecticut!
October 19: Weird, late-night AirBNB finds.
October 20: My beautiful Aunt Ang nana-ing my cousin's sweet little Jack.
October 21: I wasn't the photographer at my cousin Ricky's wedding, and I took just a handful of photos during the reception. I loved this one of their first dance, because Ricky's brother Mark is playing the clarinet in the background. Uncle Joe was playing piano and singing too. The most stunning of moments.
October 22: Ty is the best uncle, and Jameson is the happiest kid. Wrapped up a weekend on the Cape with these two making me smile.
October 23: Post-wedding weekend eating all the veggies.
October 24: Peak leaf week finds. I worked really long hours that week so took photos here and there as I walked between buildings at the medical center.
October 25: Returned from date night to find Albert, er, hiding.
October 26: Airport reads. I cried.
October 27: I was in Texas for my last wedding contract under Honey and Salt and stopped in to see some dear friends.
October 28: You know it's October when you walk into Christina's kitchen to find Hermione and Hedwig hard at work.
October 29: On the day Nadine brought Blueberry home, I got to meet her new tiniest best friend.
October 30: Breakfast shenanigans with Josh, the supermanny, and Jameson the covert dog feeder who doesn't like reprimands.
October 31: Hospital photographer turned favorite wizard for Halloween festivities. We do reverse trick-or-treating for the inpatients, going room to room, in costume, handing out goodies and wishing them well. I got to document as a participant, and of course I had to do so in costume.