Rainy Day

Just as predicted, we had a day full of rain. It was a classic rainy day. Makes me wish I had a bay window with a bench and lots of fluffy pillows and time to sit and read a good book! Instead I spent the majority of the day working at the computer trying to catch up on all my work! Every so often, I would stop what I was doing and go look out the window or open the door and listen to the wind blowing and the rain falling. We never really did get storms, but the wind was strong all day long. I love the way it sounds when the rain is steady and the wind is blowing through the trees.

Many little branches full of new leaves fell out of the trees with all the wind blowing today.

They look like little pom-poms laying all over the yard!

Water is standing all over our yard and this little pond is out by my studio!

I hope it dries quickly!!

Sidewinders are 3-0

Our third game was Friday night and it was a CLOSE one! We were down 7-8 in the last inning and the other team scored another run when they were at bat. We were at the top of our lineup and our first two batters got on base. Zack House came up to bat and hit a triple that scored the other two runners, tying the game. Jackson was up to bat and ended up getting the RBI which won the game for us. It was a close one - but we'll take a win any way it comes!

Zack hits a triple!

Father and son conference before the final bat.
Jackson knocks in the winning run!

Zach Altom SR 2006

This evening I did a senior session for Zach Altom. He is always so easy to take pics of because he seems to read my mind before I tell him where to sit or stand - and he's a natural in front of the
camera. . . that makes my job SO much easier!
Here are a few pics:

Congratulations to Zach and the rest of the SCHS Class of 2006!

Mandy and Jeremy

Last Friday, I had the chance to tag along on an engagment shoot with my friend and fellow photographer, Maury Draper of Warren. She was doing engagment pics for Mandy and Jeremy, an awesome couple. It's was easy to see how in love this couple is! The have a great story and we talked of how cool it would be to be able to tell their story to their grandchildren some day. One lives in DC, the other near Atlanta. They met on a plane and have spent many weekends in airports commuting to see each other. Maury thought it would be a good idea to do their engagment pics in the airport, since that is significant in their life! We actually surprised (ambushed?!? :) ) Jeremy at the airport. He didn't know Maury would be there AND with another photographer in tow! He was a great sport and we all had a really good time doing their pictures! We also went to the Old Mill and took some pictures there!






I send a big THANK YOU to Maury and Mandy & Jeremy for letting me tag along! I had a great day with all of you!

More Baseball

I'll be really busy for the next few weeks with baseball games. . . so they'll be lots of baseball pics here. I'm going to try to choose one photo from each game to post.

We got behind on the scoreboard in tonight's game. We had two outs and time was running out in the game. Zack Harrington came up to bat and got a great hit - a triple!! It started a rally for us and we scored the maximum number of runs allowed per inning (6) and the final score was 9-6. We were VERY proud of this win!!

I love this picture of him

because you can see the determination in his eyes!
Zack got the game ball for tonight's game! WAY TO GO, ZACK!!

KHaynes photography Sidewinders

Well, our baseball season has begun. . . and so far, so good ! We had our first game tonight and although it wasn't looking good for us at first - we managed to pull out the victory. We won 11 - 6. One thing was certain though. . . even if we never won a game - we looked good! Have I ever mentioned that green is my favorite color?!?! :)

Lady Dogs Softball

Monday, April 10
Star City vs. Hamburg




The Lady Dogs were playing Hamburg for the district championship. It was a tough game and in the end the girls from Hamburg were able to pull off the victory.

Anden Owen

Last night I had a great time taking pics of Anden Owen. He will turn one early next month and while we were getting the shots for his party invitation, he would get up and walk towards me... one time I was able to focus on him - but he was right under the lights so it really blew out the picture... but I kind of like the way it turned out - it's definitely a really good pic of his beautiful eyes! Sometimes 'mistakes' turn out to be kind of cool!


Anden had a great time with his cake pictures. He was so much fun - he smiled the whole time and he really enjoyed getting in that birthday cake!
What a cutie!!!

Kacee Roberts 2006 SCHS Senior

A couple of weeks ago I did a senior session for Kacee. While looking over my blog last night, I realized that I'd forgotten to put some of her pics on my blog -- so I apologize to Kacee for taking so long to do that! We had a great session and I think her pics turned out great.

Easter Pics

This little bunny's name is Cottontail. He now belongs to Kaegan Holthoff... she really loved the bunnies and I'm so glad her mom and dad let her have this one. He was my favorite bunny of the bunch - I've never seen a rabbit with fur like this one had. It was more like a lamb's fur. It was kind of curly and he felt like a big cotton ball. He was a sweet bunny, too. He would climb right on my neck and just lay there and cuddle - I'm glad he's gone to a good home! And I keep calling him "he"... but who knows?!!? He may be a she!! Good thing they only took ONE bunny!

Here are more Easter pics from this past Saturday! Aren't the kids cute?!?!

Kids from top to bottom:

Ralston, son of William and Lisa Jacks

Kinsey, daughter of Randy and Amy Postel

Dylan, son of Brian and Jonna Butler

Jalyn, daughter of Johnathan and Paige Powell

Nicholas, son of Lisa Hill

Emily and Grant, children of Mark and Felicia Dutton

Lauren and Ethan, children of Steve and Tammy White

Regan and Weston, children of Kirk and Laura Pierce

Savannah, daughter of Chris and Marchae Brown

Jacob, Hannah and Jaycee, children of David and Rachel Merritt

Small Stuff

This afternoon I walked around my yard and took a few pics. Sometimes I like to just look and see the beauty in the 'small stuff' and it's everywhere. I absolutely love where I live. I think this is my favorite spot of land on the whole earth - even though I haven't seen the entire earth . . . this will always be HOME to me.

There is so much I want to do to my yard and to the area surrounding my studio... but I'm no 'green-thumb' and I don't have much time to work in the yard. But every so often I do a little bit. One afternoon last week when I got home from working at the church, Gerald and I were walking around the yard, talking about what we'd like to do as far as flower/hosta beds go. We both would like monkey grass around the big oak trees in the front yard (and we'd both like the nasty hickory tree gone - but that's a whole different job!). Gerald ended up digging up the two big wads of monkey grass that were in the back yard. . . and I split them up and planted them all around one of the oak trees. I went to check on that grass today - and it's still pretty LIMP! :) It probably won't stand up tall again until the fall - but at least I've got it planted!


At the edge of the woods near our house, there is some kind of viney plant that ends up covering the ground. I love it because it stays green all year long and this time of year it puts out pretty, little purple flowers.


We walked on around to the side yard where once upon a time, I planted a tulip bed. I don't know what happened to it... the moles probably ate all the bulbs. . . but now I get about 15 TINY little tulips that come up each spring. Only three bloomed this year. I want to rework that bed and build it up some - Tulips are my favorite flower and I'd love to have a nice bed of them!

In the front yard I have a hosta bed, which also needs to be reworked! Hostas are one of my favorite plants - they are so easy! I love the way they look this time of year, when they are just coming up. As you can tell from the pics, I need to dig them up and separate them, too!! Not sure if that will happen this year or not!

Over beside our water hydrant, where our garden hose is hooked up, there is a patch of dandelions. I know these are weeds and are supposed to be a 'bad' thing - but I think they are cool! It's so neat to me that these thick, yellow flowers 'grow up' to be the'blowy things' all kids like to play with!

I love the view from my back porch. Right now we have a baseball field in our field. But way out in the outfield, the grass is still tall and has turned brown. I love seeing all the short green grass of the field. . . and then having all the tall, brown grass filling in the field to where the trees start. I also love the way this old truck kind of completes the 'old farm' look. I use this truck as a prop for some of my pics.

Just thought I'd share some of my pics and thoughts with you. I am a blessed person . . . and some of the best blessings in life are free gifts from God that we can all share and appreciate. I encourage you to take the time to see and appreciate the 'small stuff'. The world is full of it.
Kelly