Family Gathering 2019 We spent the better part of the day at Manila Lake. It is beautiful, reasonably small or quite large, depending on what you want it to be. It is clean and has a beach with sand and lots of little fish and plenty of room for many …
Family Gathering 2019 History of Family Gathering Dress-Ups For the past five years, we have dressed-up. The girls love to assume different personas and the boys like to have swords and hatchets and the horned helmets of Vikings. The boys always end up staging pretend fights, especially with animals if …
Family Gathering 2019 It is true. Anything that is FUN can also be UN-FUN. That is just the way things are. That is why Henry’s heart is heavy. His balloon popped just as he was ready to put the finishing touches on his unusual animal. I am reminded why we …
It meant nothing to me. It was just a whimsical hat with a label I did not appreciate. I actually wondered why a perfectly nice flowered hat would have such a bright red label with the word Supreme on it when it would have been quite nice without it. Here …
I can be across the river or behind a tree and still get wonderful, natural photographs using a telephoto lens. I have found that children love to see themselves as brave, which they generally are ! This photo/overlay came from a book of encouragement I made for Tally for his …
Making Favorite Photographs Into Keepsakes Over the years I have chosen some favorite photographs of people I love and enhanced the moment by using “overlay”. There is nothing difficult or magical about the process except that one has to prowl around the Internet for images that are suitable for …
The bond between brothers begins with a simple conversation. This photo is a particular favorite of mine. I love the willingness to share, the reluctant willingness to receive and the help that is being given by the sharer’s mouth. This particular photograph has become historically interesting. This is the now-closed …
What a dilemma we have created for ourselves with the advent of wonderful and affordable cameras. Now, rather than searching for even one ancestral photograph, our posterity will not know where to begin because of the number of photographs available to them. Gone are the days of photo albums on …
Oh, Lydia. What a character. This is Lydia’s little Photograph Keepsake Book. I made it from carefully chosen photographs of Lydia which I had taken over many years. I could have made it as thick as 100 books because I have so many photographs of her to choose from. But, …
Clara’s little book came from my little heart. It contains some of my favorite photographs of Clara which I have taken over the years. Some of the photographs are presented with an overlay and all have a little prose-poem of my own making which was great fun. I do …
