Beautiful Eyes
Not too many years ago, I determined (harshly) and announced (loudly) that I would never do newborn photos. ‘Babies scare me,’ I said. ‘They’re too floppy,’ said I. ‘I won’t be able to do babies justice until I have my own,’ I said. Marrying into John’s family, though, produced (no pun intended) ample opportunity for practicing…
I drove down a very long dirt road, but I really wasn’t that far from a Wal-Mart and the mall and the interstate and all the other elements of civilization. I was in the middle of nowhere, yet near to everything. I wasn’t just driving down a road; I was heading to a retreat, a…
She stood on the edge of the world, teetering between the delights of an unknown expanse and the comforts of familiar reality. To her, it looked like a grand adventure waiting to be explored. To her parents, however, she was just a few inches from soiling her outfit by falling face-first into the ocean. (This…
I’m sitting on an cross-country flight as I write this (my trip will be long over by the time you read this, though!) and relishing in the energy and adventures I find in travel. The people watching in an airport is delightful (today’s highlight: the overall-and-pigtailed three-year-old who never met a stranger), the inspiration of…
My nieces and nephews (and their parents) have a unique advantage: ample camera practice before family portrait season even rolls around. Me? I have eleven (local) built-in models who are (slowly!) learning to ask for a photo (and then begging to see all the images). When nephew Isaiah had a birthday bonfire in the rain, what else was…
On one particularly glorious autumn day, Ashton pulled out all the stops and showed off her delightfully creative, exceptionally talented, overwhelmingly cute life. The day started with dance and glitter and ended with painting a masterpiece on the back lawn. If this doesn’t epitomize the extreme level of fun that ought to be associated with…