Alliecat's J-dolls (Oct. 5)

[Loona]

Always lovely to see J-dolls! Congratulations on your newest arrival - she looks classy and royal! I really like the colour coordination in your photos, and she looks so at home with those autumn colours. I really struggle with doll photos (or any photos really) during autumn because the colours and my taste (and thus my dollies) just don't match.

[Alliecat]

Thanks, everyone! I need to do more photos of the J's. I keep saying that... sigh...
I like the warm autumn colours as backdrops, but, it's coming to the time of year when I also struggle with outdoor photos because it's cold & gloomy. (We had a bleepin' snowstorm this week. I mean, it's melted now, & warmer, but, UGH )

[Lejays17]

She’s lovely. I particularly like the two shots with the flowers, both the asters & the daisies.

Congrats on winning the photo contest.

[Alliecat]

Well, what a sad state the forum is in, that pretty much everyone on this thread is no longer here.  Basically 2 regulars left, and this thread is 4 years old (!?!?!!!!), but it's mine, dangit, so I'm gonna necro it and put some photos here.
Charonne & Robyn with the last 2 Monarch hatchlings of the season.

[davidd]

Nicely crafted wooden stairs, with rounded edges on the planks. Dag-nabbit, you might be forcing me to up my game! I need to figure out how to rebuild some deck stairs since my deck replacement project has resulted in the deck being a different height.

I can't believe you're still getting butterfly hatchlings up there in the frozen north! Butterflies are long gone here, as are the hummingbirds; and most of the migratory birds seem to have passed through. The lizards are dormant. Things are beginning to look prematurely bleak and near-wintery already.

Love the late afternoon golden sunlight in these pics. You used the light well even as it rapidly faded.

The J-Dolls are cute, as are their costumes. Are those the stock outfits... including that fun purple glitter hat... which looks like it could be converted in to a safari helmet with relatively little work?

Yeah, I don't know where everybody went. Sometimes I think that it must be me who drives everyone away from the forums. But if I stop posting, will they come back? I doubt it.

(I know that at least one of the formerly active members of this forum grew weary of my quasi-political anti-gub'mint grumbling during the COVID/vax times and unfollowed and blocked me on Instagram; so maybe I am a contributor to the forum exodus.)

Four years flies by like almost nothing, and as you say, it's your own topic, so necro away! I don't think anyone is gonna complain! Besides, the topic wasn't dead, merely dormant!