“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a boy.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Children love the soft noses of horses. They love the chomp of the big teeth and the big, brown eyes. Whether it is apples, carrots or grass . …
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb- journal entry: GREAT! WOW! AWESOME! I said one kind word each of three ways. Does that mean that I can warm nine months? Add this to my list of favorite photographs. It was a perfect day for winter things. I …
“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” -Kenyan Proverb- journal entry: Oh, how I treasure photographs of generations working together. It looked to me, when I took this picture, that these two were working together. I wonder what is going on behind them? Why do they each need a bucket of …
“We go where we need to go and then try to figure out what we’re doing there.” -Jeff Greenwald- journal entry: Oh, how I love photographs which tell a story. Not faces. Not poses. Not new clothes. Just ordinary moments. It was Christmas. Santa brought skis. This little guy had …
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grown up.” -Pablo Piccaso- journal entry: How many fathers spread out a mess like this in their living room? Her father did. He didn’t just give her a sketch book and a pencil . . …
“I once tried standing on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.” -Xun Zi- journal entry: It was the highest climbing wall I had ever seen. Smack dab in the middle of the …
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson journal entry: It was only sunscreen. But the photograph flew at me as if it had wings. No matter that the sunscreen is a little thick. Does anyone mind? …
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” -Gail Buckley- journal entry: When taking family pictures I prefer the sneaky kind. If no one knows I am watching them, they won’t smile funny. If these three generations were lined …
“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. …
