This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles
Remember to look up…
I remind myself…more and more
As the years add up and time rushes by…
Realizing there is so much I have been missing…
From a lifetime of purposeful paths and forward focus.
One winter day…
While sipping a hot cup of tea in the museum’s cafe,
I glanced up.
And discovered…
My favorite hidden exhibit.
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Open Topic
On a college visit with my son in 2006…checking out a school in North Carolina.
Trees in bloom everywhere.
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. The topic: Flower of Any Kind
I’ll admit it was strange to view flowers in anything but color, but I decided to explore my favorite flower photos with an open mind. And eye.
I was intrigued to discover how much I was drawn to the black and white version of the two “tulip survivors” from our former home. The two that were still bursting through the hard packed side yard after more than 30 years.
It seemed fitting to give them an antique look…
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: The topic is Hands, Feet or Paws
Summer 2005
Family Reunion #10
Four giggling daughters of sisters
Squeezed onto grandma’s bed
6 years old to 23
Dusty dirty feet
Displayed
Years later
many miles
apart…
Those toes now dipped in new waters…
College student
Emergency Physician
Merchandise Manager
PhD candidate
…two doing double duty
as mamas
on their feet
chasing giggling little ones
of their own.
This post inspired by Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: The topic is View From the Side
Daddy narrating a nature walk
Pauses in profile
On the path
One summer day
A family respite
Precious days
Woven
Together
Little ones held close
Up high
Down low
Safe and Sound
This post inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: The topic: In or On Water
It didn’t take much for a group of 6 year old boys (and one little brother) to make excellent use of water.
In the backyard swimming pool…
Enjoying their own brand of fun…
One hot July afternoon…
While their parents partied nearby.
This post inspired by Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge. The topic: Cute Factor
Cute Factor! How could I resist this challenge? Absolutely impossible.
As soon as my daughter became mobile, she’d crawl…and eventually run…to the front door when she heard her daddy come home from work.
Carrying his guitar. After a long day teaching teenagers how to play notes and chords and…eventually…What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor.
She was ever curious about this guitar which was so often in her daddy’s lap. Capturing his attention. As he practiced and made music. While he sang. To himself. To her.
At times – apparently deciding that enough was enough – she’d toddle over to wherever he was strumming. Press her fingers on the strings…silence the music…and demand, as only a tiny child can…No tar daddy!
Daddy would take a short break.
When he left the guitar case propped open next to the living room wall…
our little girl often made use of this just-the-right-size-for-a-toddler seat.
