Dog Days: Evening Hikes

We are not morning people so we don't walk out dogs each morning.  Instead we walk them when we get home from work each evening before Azul eats of course.  Those walks are sometimes the best part of the day where we can talk not worrying about the other things we "should" be doing and have fun especially with our two dogs.  We are so fortunate to live next to hiking trails just steps away from our house with plenty of boulders to climb and logs to cross.
Azul actually loves to climb all those boulders.  I think he likes the vantage point.

You can follow along on our evening walks on Instagram @VisiblyMoved or on Vine @ErinHarings.

When do you bring your dogs for a walk?  If you Intagram your walks, I'd love to follow you!

See what happened on another walk here.

xo
Erin

Spring Style

Now that the weather is warming up it's time for some spring outfits!

Amanda Louise does it again with some great seasonal outfit posts for Connecticut!

Go check out the outfit details on her blog and for even more photos go to Blue Glacier Photography (that's my photo business if you were wondering!).

xo

Erin

My Favorite Dairy Free, Soy Free, Egg Free Products

Salad Dressing:  Dairy, Soy, and Egg free but still creamy!  I love creamy dressings so it was a great find for me!

Ice Cream:  Coconut milk ice cream to the rescue!

Mayo:  Egg Free and Soy Free! 

Yogurt

Butter:  This is the only butter I've found that's free of both soy and dairy.

Milk

It's so hard to find dairy substitutes that are also soy and egg free but thank goodness for these products!  I'm still on the lookout for a dairy free soy free cheese I like.  Does anyone know any good ones?

xo

Erin

Allergy-Free Rosemary Chive Potato Chips

Potato chips are by far my favorite junk food treat.  Going allergy-free meant I had to give up most chips as they are fried in vegetable oil with soy and have diary or wheat in the flavorings.   Little did I know that making my own would be so easy with only a few simple ingredients.

You will need:

Potatoes (I used red but any kind will work, including sweet potatoes!)

Fresh Rosemary

Fresh Chives

Olive Oil

Sea Salt

-Lightly coat a cookie sheet with olive oil.

-Thinly slice your potatoes and spread them evenly out on the sheet.

-Sprinkle your fresh rosemary and chives over the slice potatoes.

-Lightly sprinkle some more olive oil and your sea salt over the sliced potatoes.

Bake at 400 degrees 30 minutes or until golden brown.

I like to eat them with one of my favorite allergy-free dressings.

Dairy Free: Drew's Roasted Garlic & Peppercorn Salad Dressing

Enjoy!

xo

Erin

Fashion Shoot

This gal is so fun to photograph!

because afterwards, we jump off rocks!

and race!

Go check out more photos from this shoot and her outfit details at Amanda Louise.

Also, Amanda and I are going to Blog Better Boston next weekend.  Anyone else going?

xo
Erin

I Eat Allergy Free

I didn't start eating allergy free by choice but only after getting sick a few years ago.  My face, fingers, and joints were severely swollen.  I was getting rashes on my face, hands, and back of my neck.  I was tired ALL the time and got headaches.  I was a mess emotionally too.  I was angry, annoyed by everything, inpatient and so on!  The doctors put me on steroids on and off for a year until I finally took my health into my own hands and went on a food allergy diet.  The doctors had varying opinions anywhere from Lupus to environmental allergies but none of them believed me when I said I thought all my symptoms were related to food.  I started my food allergy diet with only cutting out one food group and I choose gluten.  After a week I was able to go off all of my steroids and antihistamines.   

Now I don't eat any of the following after slowly cutting out each food type one by one.

Tree Nuts

Dairy

Gluten

Eggs

Soy

Shellfish

I feel great and don't need any medicine anymore.

I'm telling my story here because I know food allergies and intolerances are becoming more common. Probably because of how processed food is now and all the chemicals used on them.   Eating allergy free can be tough but I plan to start sharing some of my favorite allergy free products and recipes here soon.

xo

Erin

Fashion Shoot

Amanda Lousie and I teamed together again for this style post.  Isn't this outfit so cute for Spring?  Go check out more pics and her outfit details here.

xo

Erin

Prophetic Photography

Run to Me

Have you ever heard of prophetic photography?  Neither had I up until a couple weeks ago when I  asked God to show me how I can use my talents for Him.  I then thought I came up with this brilliant idea of prophetic photography.  I didn't know if it was a real thing already being done.  A short Google search later I found that it really was a thing and found this explanation and examples at Red Door Sentinel.

I've seen Akiane Kramarik's paintings and their prophetic meanings.  Looking through a book of her paintings have brought me to tears because they carry such powerful messages and dreamlike wonder of things I couldn't have even imagined.

Kelly explained that revealing things hidden through divine inspiration  declare the purpose of God.  Hidden Things are always in plain site and the scripture it declares can be so revealing in a picture.  

For example in the picture above, I was out with my dogs and husband taking our typical daily hike.  On this night, we were a little nervous letting our husky go without a leash.  If you know huskies they are notorious for being runners, stubborn, and not listening to anything you say.  Azul, our husky, was at extra risk of running away on this hike because we had just fed him dinner.  He didn't need to get home anytime soon to eat.  At this point, Azul was running far ahead and my husband and I had stopped to play catch with our other dog, Glacier, and Azul kept going further ahead.  I really wanted Azul to be with me.  Not out of fear he was running away, but I wanted to play with him, pet him, and I really wanted him to want to come to me. So I called his name, and he came running to me.  I snapped the picture above.

Later I was posting the picture to Instagram and I came the caption part.  The only thing repeating over and over in my head to put was Run to Me.

I felt like I was just given a download of information on why God gave me that caption.

I can be unruly, disobedient and stubborn.  God has the power to keep me close to him or make me do the things he wants me to do, just as I could have done the same with putting Azul on a leash.  But instead he wants us to want to run to Him just what I wanted from Azul.  By him running to me it made my heart happy that he returned affection to me.

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you.  If you seek me with all your heart and soul.

Jeremiah 29:13

Then I said, "LORD, you give me strength and protect me.  You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.

Jeremiah 16:19

xo

Erin

Dog Days: Snow Fluries

I have spring fever...

and I think Glacier does too.
He ended up swimming in the snow.

xo

Erin

Happy Spring!

Happy Spring!

I know I'm a few days late but it sure doesn't feel like spring yet outside.

I'm really looking forward to spring this year.  

I miss the green, working outside, the longer daylight hours, taking walks, grilling, having fires.... you know all the things that come with warm weather.  Maybe I should move somewhere where it is always warm.

Photos are from a local greenhouse.