“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan and follow through.” -Eleanor Roosevelt- journal entry: That is true of organizing. Nothing makes me crazier than wanting to use something I know I have and not being able to find it. I always thought that when my …
” The best thing in life is to plant a tree under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: When I get out my camera . . . I am looking for a story. I am not always sure that I will find it but …
“In the fall, after the harvest, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood- journal entry: I think that when my children were small, we would have considered this photograph to be a waste of film. That is because we were so limited by the …
“Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.” -Ansel Adams- journal entry: Not every photograph has to have a face . . . as long as you label it somehow. Sometimes the story is in the body language. Sometimes it is in the clothing or the toys or the location. …
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.” -Emily Dickinson- journal entry: A macro lens is new to me. I saved up for it and eagerly waited for its delivery. When I took my first photographs with it . . . I thought I had discovered another …
“When in doubt, hold your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Grandpa got a small helicopter for his birthday. Talmage couldn’t wait to see it in the air. Holden couldn’t wait to get his hands on the controls. A picture really is worth …
” We are all worms . . . but I believe that I am a glow worm.” -Winston Churchill- journal entry: I don’t think this is a worm. I think it is a poisonous snake. It is just too big for a worm. Holden never met a worm he didn’t …
” A nose that can see is worth two that can sniff.” -Santa Claus- journal entry: Okay, where is my nose? Everyone was asking that. I thought that I had plenty of extra noses but one child would leave his nose in the bathroom and another would leave his in …
” I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.” -Ann Landers- journal entry: Nor do you have to be a real mommy to take care of teeny, tiny babies. These little ones fit inside of a 3×3 box with a lid. It looks …
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi- journal entry: Only through a telephoto lens could I have captured my grandson’s concentration as he mused over what he was seeing just inches away. His hand covers his other eye. He said that if he …
