Every Valley

Last night Lisa treated me to a lovely concert. Messiah by G.F. Handel holds a special spot in my heart.  Besides being part of a choir that performed it when I was a teen, my ex has a beautiful professional tenor voice and he sang this many times.  It is one of the few remaining things from that marriage that I hold dear. 

Before Lisa and I went, we needed to do a quick photoshoot, because, being we are two photographers, we of course have no pictures of the two of us together.

So we set up my "photo studio"

Yeah, my husband started shooting before we had transformed it fully.  See the cute little christmas ornaments made out of clay sitting on the stove?  Yes, that is a microwave...and a pizza. Speaking of pizza,

Lisa did a little pizza modeling while I continued to struggle with my makeup.  That ghost in front of her is me rushing to the bathroom to "put my face on".

I was gonna make a wisecrack about this photo and the fact that my husband was our photographer...

Until I realized this was actually one that Lisa took when I asked her to get some pictures of just me.  Should I be alarmed?

But in the end, all the hard work and goofing off netted us a couple of decent shots.  Then we were off to the Basilica of St. Mary in downtown Minneapolis.  And SHHHHH, don't tell my husband, but not only did we park under the bridge, we parked UNDER the BRIDGE.  As in not in a parking space.  Naughty girls!

This is what the Basilica looks like.  During the day.  In summer.  Using a camera worth more than my vehicle.

And the inside.

 

Imagine the sound quality in such a magnificent building.  Divine.

And here we have the chorale and the orchestra playing....no wait, that is my friend Kit jumping my moms car that wouldn't start when we were up north in our UNHEATED house.  Did I mention is was subzero the whole time we were there?  I did.  Oh, sorry.

Anyway, the concert was wonderful and the soloists were quite amazing.  Here is a link to a clip that is one of my favorite solos.  This was not from last night, but you get the idea.

http://www.spiritsound.com/audio/mp3/ComfortYe2000.mp3

Anyway, I came home with a cold.  So I'm in jammies, laying in my favorite easy chair trying to get better by tomorrow because seriously, I do not have time to be sick!

Comments

[Amanda]

Wow, those photos are beautiful!!