I'm building a simple photo gallery for my website, and I've run into a minor hitch. I can't seem to figure out how to get certain records to display in the order I want them to.

My photo gallery will have an albums table (album_id, parent_album, album_name, album_desc), and albums can have "children" (thus the "parent_album" column). So I can have something like this:

Christmas
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010

Christmas is an album, and the years are sub-albums within it. When I do a query, I want the sub-albums to display under their "parents", and not intermingled with all the other albums. This is the query I've started off with:

Code:
SELECT    albums.album_id
	, albums.parent_album
	, albums.album_name
	, albums.album_desc
	, a.album_name AS parent
	, ( SELECT COUNT(pic_id)
	    FROM photos
	    WHERE pic_album = albums.album_id ) AS pics
FROM albums
LEFT JOIN albums AS a
	ON a.album_id = albums.parent_album
ORDER BY parent_album, album_name
This gives me the name of the album, the children, and the number of pics in each album, but the ORDER BY clause doesn't do what I want. Is this something I need to handle in the code and not the query?