Today was our day for the Lake. Little Lakes are popping up all over the place and we love Manila Lake. It is close, clean, has bathrooms, has a place to inflate tubes and boats, has beach, grass, trees and shade. This year Grandpa rented four paddle boards. We added …
hammocking. (n) hanging a hammock between two trees and lying in it So. We bought hammocks. Grandpa loved them so much that he put the old, canvas hammocks into the thrift store box. We bought one for each grandchild and then we practiced putting them up by joining them to …
clay. (n) an unknown substance that is squishy. Little did I know what I had done. Yes. I had bought modeling clay for my grandchildren many, many times. But, this was not ordinary modeling clay. This was magic clay. This was trans-formative clay. This was clay made from a secret …
journal entry: Years and years have passed and children have grown and grown. Some have left their homes to start their own lives. We have stuffed families large and small into our medium sized home on beds and cots and floors and played for hours on end in our very …
I love little tins. I love, love clip art. I sort-of-collect-it on my computer. That means that I spend a lot to time looking for it. I put things I find together in files so that I can find the images again and again and make things out of them. …
“It was during the virus of 2020 that I made your Photo Stories Gift Boxes.” – Grandma- Do you think there will be a time when we will refer to today in that way? Beats me but it sounds like a good opening for this post which is about the …
At first there was Photoshop. It was and continues to be expensive and challenging to learn. Some people think it is cheating to touch-up a photograph and I admit that I hesitated when I started thinking about “touching up” because I didn’t yet know that I didn’t always agree. Then, …
I feel something wonderful when the sun is going down. You can tell beautiful photo stories when the sun is going down. As long as you don’t point the camera right into the sun, you can watch activities and people in an ever-changing world just by moving around a bit …
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I sat on the grass, quite far away. When she picked it up I raised my camera. She asked what it was while knitting her brow with concern and confusion. I said it was a sprinkler like it should be obvious to everyone and proceeded to tell her more than …
