Blame it on Instagram. As I spend my days documenting my daughters’ lives with my camera (or often, my iPhone), I have realized how much of a difference it makes when the photos have a colorful, interesting background. There’s a reason why people line up to take photos in front of the WhatLiftsYou wings in Nashville, and why the Purple Wall at Disney’s Magic Kingdom is an Instagram cult favorite.
There’s just something so satisfying about photos in special places, particularly when the places stay the same while the subjects grow and change.
Today, I visited my friend Stephanie and her girls with Stella and Margot in her hometown of Mason. Mason, an already impossibly cute town, just recently unveiled a beautiful floral mural by artist Chris Garcia. The mural, on the alleyway side of Kean’s, has several larger than life flowers in bright colors.
I knew this mural would make a beautiful backdrop for photos of the girls (the mamas snuck one in, too). And it made me think of all of the other places around the Lansing area that I love to use as backdrops for photos.
Here are some of my favorite spots to take photos. This will definitely be a walk down memory lane. Continue reading “My favorite photo spots around the Lansing area”