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photo session with a garden hose

May 29, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

I had a photo session in the garden yesterday with my photographer/gardener friend Jerry (Jmac Images). I needed a head shot photo for various blogger events (or so I’m always told), so I bit the bullet and “posed”. Awkward for me. Just ask Jerry.

Until I put on gardening gloves and grabbed the hose. Then it was fun.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

Grace Grits and Gardening - Playing in the water

Talya Boerner -POP sign

I love the way Jerry captured the garden in the background, the Promise of Peace sign, the blue sky.

Watering my tomatoes…

grace grits tomatoes - my plot at Promise of Peace

It was a fun afternoon!

Plus, I discovered another ripe strawberry. Bonus.

grace grits strawberry

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Filed Under: Gardening, Life Tagged With: organic gardening, Promise of Peace Community Garden

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Comments

  1. Barbara Tate says

    May 29, 2014 at 7:28 am

    Oh, what fun!! The first picture is my favorite. You need different colored gloves to show off that pretty strawberry. Gardening is fun the way you are doing it.

  2. Corinne Rodrigues says

    May 29, 2014 at 7:28 am

    So lovely – the pictures and you, Talya! ♥

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 8:52 am

      Thank you Corinne. I had a great photographer:))

  3. Colene says

    May 29, 2014 at 7:33 am

    Great photos! Great subject1 Great garden! Get it? 🙂

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 8:52 am

      haha clever Colene!

  4. Winnie says

    May 29, 2014 at 7:38 am

    Beautiful Pictures! It shows you enjoy the garden!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 8:52 am

      I do! Thanks Winnie.

  5. Linda Gardner says

    May 29, 2014 at 7:42 am

    Hard to choose a favorite,, I love them all !!!!!

  6. Kathy Combs says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:04 am

    Absolutely beautiful photos of you. Love how he captured the water from the hose!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 8:52 am

      Thanks Kathy. Jerry is great!

  7. Jimmie Kepler says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:24 am

    The pictures are wonderful. They tell a story. The first photo shows your “cover girl” beauty qualities and shows that you are not only very pretty, but truly beautiful. You have that rare balance of inner and outer as well as stunning cover girl looks. See you soon at writer’s group.

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 8:53 am

      Well aren’t you sweet Jimmie. Yes, see you next week!

  8. Sarah Shotts says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:40 am

    Fun! It’s always nice to have something that distracts you from your photo being taken. I’m the same. 🙂

  9. Patti says

    May 29, 2014 at 9:15 am

    They ALL turned out amazing.

  10. Gale says

    May 29, 2014 at 9:19 am

    Beautiful strawberries. Mine are always bird-pecked by the time they get that large (but at least I have birds in my yard, so it’s not a total loss).

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 4:48 pm

      I was surprised to find one that large. It was beneath a leaf so I think the birds missed it – LOL

  11. KC @ Average: More or Less says

    May 29, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Beautiful photographs, beautiful garden, beautiful gardener!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 29, 2014 at 4:49 pm

      Thank you!

  12. Brenda @DailyMayo says

    May 29, 2014 at 10:55 am

    Well, I certainly wouldn’t have thought to use a hose as a prop. Good idea, it turned out really great!

  13. Melissa D says

    May 29, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    Natural photos are always so fun to look at! I definitely need to do this with my kiddos this summer. 🙂

  14. Jennifer says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Cute! It is so hard to get into it isn’t it! They turned out great!

  15. Bryan Jones says

    May 29, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    great pics, love gardening!

  16. Dorothy Johnson says

    May 30, 2014 at 6:45 am

    Just love all the photos in the garden. I agree with your many fans. You are beautiful!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      May 30, 2014 at 1:26 pm

      Thank you Dorothy. It certainly helps to have a great photographer:)

  17. Jennifer says

    May 30, 2014 at 9:35 am

    Love these! The photographer definitely captured “you” 🙂

  18. Marie Lester says

    June 2, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    beautiful!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 3, 2014 at 6:39 am

      Thank you!


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