The Harpist

 Planning an outdoor Williams Park photo session in March is risky business.  Especially when our British Columbia weather is so intensely unpredictable. Today, for example, was cloudy, sunny, drizzling, sunny, pouring, cloudy. I’m going to say it: springtime weather in B.C. is as fickle as a PMS’ing woman. Between cooperative sunshine poking its head into…

Each step had to be careful, deliberate.  Slow movement was the only movement.  By all appearances, the river had been covering our pathway not too long before we’d arrived and our shoes held the mud to prove it. Step. Ssssssluhzs. Step.  Ssssssluhzs.  The mud-meet-shoe made a sucking/slurping/popping/mucous-blowing sound. Step. Ssssssluhzs. Step. Ssssssluhzs. But the mud…

This is love. College sweethearts, life partners, parents of four. Husband and wife. While their four munchkins ran circles around them, while the twins chased squirrels through the park, while the sun set gently behind them, these two gazed into one another’s eyes and relished their togetherness.  And it was perfect.   Perfection lies in…

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James The jazz concert provided the soundtrack for our afternoon together while the mosquitos were the quintessential welcoming committee for a North Carolina summer photo session. Dressed to perfection within their navy-and-gray-and-pink  color scheme (so much variety, and…

When moving to a new place, there is one important concept to master: assimilation. There’s truth to the adage “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.” (Within reason, of course.) For Marian and Ryan (formerly of Arizona and most recently transplanting from Alabama), their key to success in Idaho is going native. In this…