Brainstorming in Berea, KY

Last month my momma and I met half way between Dayton, Tennessee and Columbus, Ohio for some brainstorming extraordinaire! My entrepreneurial mother, Mary Zopfi, owns and operates a fabulous, cage-free dog boarding and training facility - K9 Country Village - a great business full of fluffy k-9's but a bit distracting for hard core business brainstorming sessions. So, we decided to meet half way and eliminate all as many distractions as we could. Berea, Kentucky is exactly half way and was the perfect location for a relaxing, porch-sitting, Arnold-Palmer-sipping, planning period. She's got so many fantastic ideas about where she wants her current lifestyle and business model to go, so we worked on her new website/blog and packed our two days full of discussing the practical/impractical and making endless to-do and to-want-to-do lists for our respective businesses. We stayed at the lovely Historic Boone Tavern Hotel and lingered a while at the Berea Coffee & Tea Co, taking window shopping breaks around the block as needed. (I'm making an executive decision to prolong our next meet-up; there were countless antique stores begging to be checked out.)

cheers, Momma. xoxo

The Real Behind the Scenes

If you haven't stopped by the new website, you need to. All the cool kids have, so now I hope you visit Lily Glass Photography's snazzy new get-up simply as a result of peer pressure. Once you're there you may or may not watch the Behind the Scenes video taken in part at Adam & Christa's wedding and in part in good ol' Columbus, apparently on the windiest day the city has ever seen. The following is a 2-minute portion of the film that was cut; evidence that I belong behind the camera rather than in front of it. Clearly in addition to practically being raised in a retirement home (a fact you'll understand after watching the website version), I've learned to grit and bear my teeth from my mother's entrepreneurial dog business. Please listen for phrases from my director/husband such as "do we need cue-cards?" and "this is like the King's Speech." Meanwhile I beg for him to "just bear with me," and remind him that he's having a great time. My intention was to employ him only to press record and walk away but that plan was thwarted upon realization that our floors squeak too much. Thanks for hanging in there, Ben Glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f-oB2sCmkU

Ben Glass: confetti-thrower, reflector-holder, equipment sherpa

We ripped the plastic insulation off our windows this week and I've never felt so liberated. Spring is doing it's darndest to stick around. I'm spring cleaning the house, my hard drives and my website getting ready for my wedding season that starts next weekend with Christa & Adam from TN. While sorting through hundreds of photos I kept finding little traces of my husband-turned-photo-assistant-for-the-day.  I couldn't help but share these moments that don't make it to the blog, but contribute so much to the photos that do. Ben offered to assist me with the Vineyard wedding next weekend; I can't help but imagine that one day we'll be like those cute husband and wife photo teams that rock the photo world with their talent and their adorableness... don't tell Ben.

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