I love first day of school photos. I wonder if they will let me take them all the way through high school? Probably not, so I will do it while I can. This is the first year of all elementary school – 4th and 1st grade.
Category Archives: personal
His favorite place to be
My oldest loves to read and if I can’t find him he is most certainly here. Wish I was there, too.
Stumbled Upon
There is a little pond on our property that we have not had the time to pay attention to, most of the time we walk by and don’t really notice it. Today, when I stumbled upon it, it made its presence known.
Dressing Up
I love watching my husband with our kids and getting ready for a recent funeral gave me a chance to capture a lovely father/son moment. We are a pretty casual family and wearing a tie is not an every week occurrence. In fact this was the first non-clip tie my son had worn and though […]
The smell of spring
It is the first spring at our new house. We knew there were a lot of fruit trees on the property, but we really didn’t know how many or how amazing it would smell in spring. There are so many trees (so many more than are in this photo) and I can’t wait until […]
Warning: Excessive Cuteness
I did not grow up a farm kid. Sure I saw farm animals on field trips or at the zoo. However, having our own land where were can have baby animals is an experience I hope my children will treasure. This year we got four two week old baby goats and oh my are they […]
In the weeds
in the culinary profession to be “in the weeds” is a bad thing. It means you are overwhelmed or have fallen behind. Though there is no official meaning for “in the weeds” in the photography industry, I would like to propose that it is a beautiful place to be. Though I am not doing […]
Find the photographer
My husband snapped this photo of me taking a picture of our kids by what we have started calling “studio rock”. It is a huge rock outcropping right behind the abandoned house that I will someday turn into a studio. I am so excited about the potential for our new property. Not just the […]