the simple joys

This image brings me joy. I love being able to capture sweet moments like this.

What we start and end with

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

This is true love - you think this happens every day?

I could not resist using that quote from The Princess Bride in my title for this cute young couple. The groom's name is Wesley after all and it is true love. The bride to be was about 5 years old when I last saw her and her mother is a dear friend. It's hard for me to believe.
I can't wait to see their wedding through my lens next weekend. I can't wait to see O in her wedding gown and to see the look on her groom's face.

the moments that take our breath away

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou

Better than a superhero

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown

Seven million wonders

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

Where there is love

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Fathers and daughters

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~John Gregory Brown

It was a super day

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  
~Cesare Pavese

The future

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future

~Gail Lumet Buckley

sweet childish days

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
~William Wordsworth

Oh. My. How I love these two little people (and the big people that come with them)

Spring Cleaning ...

includes hard drives did you know that? :)

I am offering a spring cleaning deal I have never offered before!

If you've had a session in 2009 or 2010 and are interested in a sweet special on your digital images, please email me for details!

In case you were wondering

They are here. Cicada Brood XIX otherwise known as big fat red eyed bugs that will soon be everywhere! They are already everywhere in my yard this morning.

Blessings

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
~Christopher Morley

One of my favorite things to do as a photographer is see moments like this one between grandparents and grandchildren. The bond is just magical - and to be able to capture that? Priceless.

this little piggy

Happy today

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~Groucho Marx

somewhere in the middle

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”
~Anthony Brandt

only in childhood

Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
~unknown

some days are harder than others

Unable are the loved to die.  For love is immortality.  ~Emily Dickinson