Beth Piper Photo Co.

A special snow adventure for a very special boy ❤🐾

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I am, I promise!
Hopefully you all saw my post back in March, but if you didn't, here's a reminder and an update.

I moved to a very small mountain town in Northern California in early June of this year, and after living in the same town in Washington my entire life, it has been quite the monumental change. I've been busy settling in, exploring my surroundings (the Trinity Alps are basically on my doorstep), trying to make my own connections, and integrate into my new community.

Things are different here, which seems like an obvious thing to say. But, I went from living in Whatcom County, where each (comparatively) booming city butts up to the next, to a small town of roughly 4,000 people with only a handful of even smaller cities nearby. For reference, we have to travel an hour away to the next county to do our 'big' grocery shopping trips, there is one fast food restaurant within an hour of me, the post office doesn't deliver mail - everyone has a PO Box, and if I want to return an Amazon purchase... we'll just say I'm doing it at the same time I make the big grocery shopping trips 🥲. It's wild.

Now, I knew going into this that this area may not be the market for my services, and while I haven't exactly tried advertising, I believe I was correct in my assumptions. That's one of the many reasons I chose to leave my business license open in Washington - and kudos to you guys because I've already made 2 trips back home and I didn't even need to advertise my availability because I already had people lined up!

That being said, I am sticking to my schedule of returning home every 3 or 4 months , so hope is not lost in getting on my schedule! And, if you can't make it within my designated return trips, I am also advertising travel photography as well - with travel fees billed at cost.

So, while I haven't been photographing many California pets, I have been photographing some of the wildlife. Please enjoy this picture of a lovely male California Quail and stay tuned for more updates and posts ❤.

-Beth