Every HOME has it’s own personality. Each is shaped by the combined personalities of the Father and Mother and later by the contributions made by the children. Everyone who has ever had a child knows that children come to earth with a bundle of characteristics for which parents can take …
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 …
Mortal Life Comes Once I love photos stories as a way to preserve Family History and the answer to the question posed in the title is “because we have one shot at the World and it is now”. (By that I mean living here as mortals.) That is why I …
You have to train your brain to “see” photo stories. You must never say “look at me and smile” or “scrunch together” or any other combination of words which force people to stop what they are doing and do something that is unnatural. Let’s use the photograph above as an …
Here are a few key words and/or phrases which will guide you to activities on this website for children and families: SLIPPERY SLIME. PAINTING ROCKS. DRESS UPS. WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT. POP POP: TWISTING BALLOONS PHOTO BOOTH. SLIME ME SILLY. MESSES ARE FUN. A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME. SUPER HEROES …
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 …
Dollar Store Water Bottles This was several years ago. The green jeep has long since quit working, the bottles from The Dollar Store are long gone and these two 14-year-olds of today still enjoy each other’s company but like to do very different things. I love this photograph because of …
Personalities When you are growing up and you are the oldest, it is sometimes all you can do to put up with the silliness of siblings and cousins. Perhaps you remember. If you were one of the children in this photograph, you would be able to use this and other …
This is one of my favorite family photographs. It is all about body language and facial expressions, a new dog and an escaped toddler. It is about the child in the red hoodie who is always in the middle and the wisdom of the oldest child which she is sharing …
Hey, kids: You are the kids who know about “unusual things before breakfast” but I, too, have looked for such things all of my life. Most of the time things that appear on the surface to be ordinary, are in fact not. Here are a few more examples of not-so-ordinary …
