The cycles of life and the passage of time are illustrated so well in the keeping of a garden. Grandpa keeps one faithfully every year although most of the food is given away. Children are fascinated that the food they eat grows under the ground. Harvesting potatoes is very much …
That is the problem with moments. If they were minutes or hours or days it would be easier to fill them up with things to remember. If a moment lasted longer you could gather your wits about you and have some warning that the moment would matter because you could …
There is nothing more beautiful than an autumn day. I have recorded years of days just like this one. They center around family, beautiful weather, good food, things from the garden and animals. Grandpa let the carrots go. And they did. The longer he leaves them in the ground the …
We usually rent a bounce house/slide. This year we decided against it simply because we didn’t feel comfortable with our ability to disinfect it in light of the COVID spread. Nevertheless, the kids made it clear that it wasn’t our summer gathering without a shaving cream fight. Lindsay was in …
Downloads and Clip Art Daniel, who knows everything there is to know about my computer, recently made the comment: Well, Mom . . . you certainly love downloads don’t you. You just might have a million. No wonder you want to rename them so you can actually find them. Well. …
“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 …
I love making little books and have for as long as I can remember. All it takes is a small adventure, any kind of camera and some people. It helps if there is action of some kind but even without it, you can tell a teeny tiny story about almost …
Mortality is about contrasts. We are here to experience them. I love powerful contrasts. Light and shadow. Fast and slow. Up and down. Happy and Sad. Well, maybe not “sad”. Andrew’s mother remembered the bags of birdseed. She had been to the park before. I’ll bet you can hear 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, …
What is a girl to do? That is what I want to know. Within a few seconds I took several funny photographs of one of my favorite people involved in something quite serious while in the background her cousins were rolling around and laughing about things she had no desire …
