Flash Back Friday

Love Thursday

Bridget, Senior picture, September 2012

Prayer in My Camera Bag

For the sun that comes up at the break of each day

For the moon that appears among the shining night stars

For soft white clouds diffusing the incandescent miracle

For colors popping and faces glowing, resplendent glory

For dappled light on the forest floor and the tree house rising up

For wind moving through the weeds and grass

For solid earth that holds them down

For pink magnolia trees and the mossy fallen log

For shiny things, the white Christmas lights

For green and gold and the color blue

For rhythms and lines and repetitions and colors that calm and soothe or agitate and excite

For peeling paint and the shiny red car

For the new things revealed and the old things preserved

For fresh strawberries and blessed coffee cake

For the rain falling sideways and mint tea in my cup

For the friends you can never forget and children that must not grow old

For gold, frankincense, and myrrh and the baby wrapped in light    -J Smilde

 

 

 

What Did Mother Say?

A Year Ago

It's hard to believe last March 19 I was out taking this photo!  This year we are still looking at a big glacier in our front yard at the side of the road.

Flash Back Friday

Maria & Bridget, April 2010

Last Week Went By in a Blur

Ed, 2013

Some Things Stay The Same

Edward, 2008


Edward, 2013

Irish Jig

Edward came home last week for his Spring Break and spent a lot of time catching up on his work.  He ran the Irish Jig 5K for old times and this was taken after the race when he came back home.


His first time running the Irish Jig was in 2004 where he ran in in 27 something minutes.  Today, it was a slippery start with snow on the ground, but he still ran it in 19!

Flash Back Friday

Maria & Edward, 1998

Love Thursday

They sure know how to pose together.

Blue Eyes

Wow, what blue eyes!


Oh Columbus!  He may have been feeling left out.

Photo of an Artist

Last week, I met my friend Lydia for coffee and we had such a great visit.  I went to her apartment afterward where I took her photo in the room she is currently using as a studio and I thought it was such a great picture of her life as it is now.  I also took photos of her cat Millie who I have always wanted to photograph! What a character!

Impromptu

 
 

So we found out Edward was on his way home for part of his spring break and we called Maria at Calvin to see if she could go to lunch with us.  It was a lunch I never dreamed of when I woke up that day.

Flash Back Friday

Bridget 2011

Love Thursday

Snowman Family

Chop Suey

Maria in the Calvin College painting studio

After we had lunch together, I went to see the painting Maria has been working on down in the studio.  They were working on "Master's" painings and here she chose to replicate one by Edward Hopper called Chop Suey.  I also saw her friend Samantha (aka Jordan) who was working on an impressionistic painting.

Winter Imagination

A river through the snow in our front yard

Grey lace at the side of the roads


Cotton candy on the deck

Heavy Snow

Torn between my desire to go to work...

and my desire to stay home and take pix of this dazzling morning snow.

I took a few in the dark-ish morning light and off to work I went!  Oh well, there will be more snow...

Flash Back Friday

Edward, August 2007