Well, I know that you basically just get a ton of silence from me here and then suddenly I just pop out of the woodwork and dump a bunch of unrelated pictures on you. I can’t help it. I’ve been less writerly, more picturely and just generally more busy with life and there is no way […]
I used Grammarly to grammar check this post because I am suffering from Summer-induced Grammnesia. It’s a serious ailment, common to homeschool moms (and maybe any teacher), wherein your ability to find and detect grammatical errors has been temporarily debilitated due to the summer heat and sudden onset of freedom. Speaking of homeschooling, we are […]
It’s been months since I posted here on my personal blog. As they say, “Life takes over.” And it has. My business is moving along and I’m looking forward to all the amazing people I’m going to be able to meet because of it! (I do so love people!) I recently, for the first time […]
Below are a selection of photos from my two years of shooting weddings with A Perfect Impression Photography in Danville, California. Through time and lots of hard work and experience my creative eye and photographic story-telling style blossomed. While I’m thankful for the experience I am thrilled that I am in business for myself at […]
We sure do miss our sweet doggy, Bruce. What a gentle friend he was to my boys… and to me over the years. He was an indoor dog which meant he really was part of the family. And even though most of the time he was just lying around the house like a farting, snoring […]
I’m not a huge fan of spiders. I mean… I am. I like them because they are good for the garden, eating all of those pesky bugs that we like even less than spiders. Sometimes I even like to look at them. So what I’m saying is that I love spiders. Unless one happens to […]
Write a post about How to Write A Fabulous Blog Post. The end. Now that I have that out of the way I’m going to get on to what I actually want to write about. It’s going to be a fabulous blog post. Or not. That was so mean. I’m sorry SEO people!! But go […]
We like to pronounce Yosemite as though we are making a Hooked on Phonics infomercial. Yo Semite. Yo. We went there, yo. Totally dude. Um… check out the butterfly. It’s been forever since we had been to Yosemite…. Since our honeymoon more than 15 years ago which is actually just shy of forever. Funny story that… […]
I got to do a pop-up photo shoot last weekend for my niece and her BFF. They’ve been pals since they were embryos. Okay, so I snuck a few pictures of my other nieces too. Who could blame me? Best friends are… well… the best. My best friend, growing up, was April. We met on […]
Mine in particular.
Last weekend I had the opportunity to photograph a lovely couple. I brought my sweet hubby along as my assistant and second shooter. I also like to call him my beast of burden because photography equipment is heavy! We had a great time and really captured the joy and love between these two. The weather […]
I live in a neighborhood that would likely be passed over quickly by those who don’t know it. In fact, truth be told, there’s a chance they might even drive a little faster. I gotta keep it real, people. It’s no The Hamptons. No offense to any The Hamptons dwellers intended of course. I’m pretty […]
Fragments + Moments + Instagram = Instagraments. Not to be confused with Instagarments. I think Instagarments, close relatives to the paper napkin garments you are given at the Dr’s office, are what Adam and Eve whipped up for themselves after that those fateful bites. I decided to Instagram my day until my phone died. What follows […]
Are there ever really enough flowers? No. Heaven will have never-ending flowers, I think, because flowers are good for you. It’s true. That is a lovely one, is it not? I feel healthier already. The happy tulips smile still, their cheerful petals like a frill, like a laugh, a twirling girl whose skirt spins ’round […]
Spring has got to be my favorite season. I remember how my eyes would yearn for color by March back when we lived in Calgary. I think my eyes were seriously color deprived. Some days I just wanted to grab anything green or red or pink and try to absorb some of it into my […]
So I have this friend who knows how to sew. She’s a very crafty one, this friend. And her daughter has inherited (and been taught!) this crafty gene. My sister got all the crafty genes in our family. I am artistic by way of photography but crafty is not a word I could use to […]
First, I’m going to break one of the rules I remember from a particularly helpful workshop at Blissdom (taught by Tsh Oxenrider) by writing several multi-sentence paragraphs in a row, unbroken by any pictures (okay, maybe I’ll add some pictures in between paragraphs after all.) I reserve the right to break the rules! (I feel […]
I really want to post about Blissdom and I will. I really will. (promise!) I will post a ton of pictures and spill my everlovin’ guts about the whole experience. But it was so big. So very big. Nothing else seemed to exist for those days outside of the Opryland Hotel. But for some reason […]
I love everything about this picture. It was my Mom’s SOMETHINGth birthday. (She doesn’t believe the number and neither do I so why mention it?) And we sort of surprised her by showing up at lunchtime and then staying all day and then making fajitas for dinner and then making a 4 layer vanilla cake […]
I barely have enough brain cells to scrape together right now to create a post at all, let alone a coherent one. Soon I will be able to post a little bit more about my Blissdom experience. Basically, I was really, really busy and had a wonderful time, met some wonderful people (some that I […]
My camera. You know, the irony is that I always tell the kids to be careful with “the baby” when I actually venture to let them take a picture. I want them to learn to use a camera and to play with light and try to shoot pictures from different angles. I want them to […]
I have mentioned it a few times but I probably need to mention it again because if I don’t mention it now then nothing happens and I go on with life as usual and that’s very sad. So I should mention it now. And I think I will. Yes, I am! Have I mentioned how […]
The time has come, my little friends, to talk of nitty gritties: of wombats, bards and bicycles of owl sandwiches and kitties. by Me (just now) I wrote that just now. Just for you. Just for this blog. This is the kind of cutting edge news you are always looking for and coming to expect […]
Yesterday I had an impromptu, totally unplanned and completely spontaneous (gosh, I love being redundant. Redundancy is the best!) photo shoot with my nieces. The idea popped into my head when I went into my Mom’s house to chat with her. I saw my sister’s wedding dress lying out on a chair (major cleaning happening), […]
My “old” bloggy buddy from way back when, Darcy, reminded us that we moms need to get in the picture. As a photographer and as a self-critical woman, I am definitely one of those that does not like to get in the picture. I like my place behind the camera thankyouverymuch. I don’t seem to […]
Wow. What a marathon of a birthday. My 35th was a strange, sad, happy, crazy, blessed birthday. Started my birthday by finishing watching The Help with Shawn at around 12:30 a.m. Woke up at 5:00 to get ready to take the Mr. to the airport for his 10 days of orientation with Food for the […]
Because my blog is just coming back to life after being tended to on such an irregular basis for the past little while, I haven’t been posting very many pictures. Part of the reason is that outside of shooting weddings, I’ve actually not been taking quite the volume of “everyday” pictures that I have in […]
Okay, so one dream is already going to happen. I am going to Blissdom and I’m so excited. Yes, I’m excited because I get to, for the first time (ever? really? ever?) yes… ever, go away by myself and be part of something so awesome that I know some of my bloggy friends have so […]
It had been so long. I can hardly remember our last family hike, something which we used to do quite often, especially when we lived in Calgary. Here we seem to have become so busy with all of life that hiking has sadly managed to slip way down on the list of possible things to […]
I, as you know, am a mom of four boys. Four boys who, tonight in particular, can sometimes drive me mad with their incessant boyish craziness. Love them and all but sometimes I seriously just feel a wee tad alone (no offense, Cupcake, but you don’t much count for making me feel a lot of […]
Seriously, this move did. me. in. (Never-mind that it was one of the shortest distance moves I’ve ever made.) Not only was I emotionally toast (so much going into that, I can’t even touch on all of it), I was very nearly physically done in as well. I was sore and exhausted, having done not […]
It’s been raining for weeks and weeks here. Reminds me of my one year of living in the Pacific Northwest (well, I suppose where I was it was considered Southwest because it was in Canada). The good thing about all the rain is knowing that it will make everything lush and verdant when the sun […]
My kids are loving their art class this year. They have made some truly beautiful creations and they all want to do art again next year. Unfortunately I only got pictures of three of them with their latest creations. My favorite might just be that sinister psycho bunny head floating menacingly over the mysterious sailboat. […]
This was a day. I realize how banal of a post title that is. But the day was not banal. Of course, it could have been far less banal, (I’m sorry, are you getting tired of the word banal? Banal banal banal banal banal) that is, it could have been even more eventful than it […]
Emphasis on NUT. Cause my kids are nuts. But their my nuts. And I love ’em. This is a soldier. Private Ryan? I don’t know really. Someone brave and rugged though. And looking shell-shocked. My Motley Crew This is what happened when I said, “Get in character!!” This is Igor. This is my little Rescue […]
This is what I got to watch tonight. Sweetness. My baby, who just turned five and talks with nostalgia about the things that happened back when he was four, is learning to play guitar. I love these people. (And all those not pictured also.)
I got to take some pictures of my pregnant friend the other day. I love this friend. She is such a sweet and genuine person. I’ve known her for less than a year but it feels like longer. Also, another noteworthy thing — we have been going outside. Every day. I can’t express how lovely […]
Ive Got a Golden Ticket – Charlie Today we got to take a field trip with our homeschool group to a local world famous chocolate factory. And to our dismay there were no little tiny orange people working der inventing room, nor was there any doublebubbleburpacola… NOR may I add were there any fizzy lifting […]
I had a terrible night’s sleep last night and I woke up feeling icky. It was snowing again when we woke up this morning. My littlest guy also wasn’t feeling very well. This combination meant that I stayed home from church with my two younger kids. It was a sleepy morning. And a sleepy afternoon. […]
I love how different effects can totally change the feel of a picture… I love how this one turned out in black and white… His eyes are delightful. But I also like how vibrant it is in color… Photoshop is magic people. Magic. I love this one in the faded seventies look… Which of these […]
Hey everyone… I’m sorry for posting the auction and then pulling it but I figured pulling it before anyone had placed a bid was the safest thing for me to do because I found out that my sweet cousin, who is a fabulous photographer, was interested in buying the camera. She has patiently waited for […]
My doggy loves the snow… Snow Dog from Nancy Doud on Vimeo.
You know… otherwise known as, the times when I should be doing something other than what I’m about to tell you I do in my spare time, I like to fantasize about starting my own photography business. The idea is not completely far fetched. In fact I intend on doing it eventually. However I have […]
Maybe it’s because we had a somewhat mild Fall… maybe it’s because I’ve finally decided to become bedfellows with winter… maybe it’s because I haven’t had my boogers freeze upon contact with the world outside my front door yet this season, but whatever the reason I am feeling quite welcoming to Old Man Winter this […]
You should see the snow here. It’s unreal. I think we have about half a foot at least so far and it’s not supposed to stop until tomorrow. And before you read any further I command you to play this song. You will love it. It’s my favorite wintery Christmas song. We always turn it […]
So many colors at the Farmer’s Market. Oh, by the way, you probably already guessed that not everything that is sold at our Farmer’s Market is grown locally. I mean, we have coconuts there…. and avocados. To be honest I’m not really sure that any of it is more local than what we might get […]
I love going to our Farmer’s Market. It not only has all sorts of lovely, wonderfully yummy foods to eat but it has all sorts of other handicrafts that are pleasant to admire even when we can’t purchase them. Another reason I love going to our Farmer’s Market is because it is a feast for […]
You know, there is nothing like exposing your kids to all of the right t.v. and movie characters throughout the generations. You know, like Wallace and Beaver Cleaver, Gilligan and the gang, The Brady fam, The Jetsons and their Hanna-Barbara ilk. Nothing will give kids a strong sense of television and movie history and a […]
Just a super friendly reminder… just an über gentle nudge… from your three year old pals everywhere…. school is very… very… very serious. Especially when you’re three and working on quadratic equations and honing a fine tuned understanding of Einstein’s theory of relativity. It’s a very serious business. Do not trifle with the studiousness of […]
Our family drives a lot. There are many reasons for this. The most obvious reason is that we live far from family. For many that means lots of flying, for some it simply means never seeing family, for us it means lots of driving. It means lots of driving because flying is very expensive for […]
The other day my sweet hubby showed me a great place online to buy personalized Christmas cards. They are called Tinyprints.com. Go there and order yourself some super cute personalized Christmas cards before reading any further here. I am not selling Christmas cards here. But looking through their wonderful selection made me think that it […]
True friendships are not always easy to come by. They are wonderful gifts from God. Like other wonderful gifts from God, such as creation and children, they have to be cared for and nurtured to maintain strength. Sometimes when children who are best friends grow up there is such a cataclysmic change in the friendship’s […]
We are home and so happy to not be on the road anymore! And what a warm welcome we received. When we walked in the door of our house we discovered that our church family had cleaned our whole house, including the garage which has recently (during our basement renovation project) been nicknamed, “One step […]
Last year we bought the kids some goggles for their swimming lessons. My two little ones love wearing their goggles even when they’re not swimming. I just can’t help but laugh… especially at my three year old… who also dresses himself. His ensembles plus the goggles are enough to make any eyes bug out. And […]
We’ve been über busy as you may have guessed. Wonderfully, pleasantly busy. I could say a hundred million things, all good, about our time with our dear friends but I think I’ll just leave it at, “It was wonderful.” The weather was positively Summer-like when they were here. And it has been positively brisky since […]
I love my big boys. They make me proud.
New friends are wonderful. Aren’t they? The only one missing from this photo is my baby who was home with Daddy, taking a nap. And these new friends are no exception. Only thing is… they don’t seem like new friends… they seem like old friends. They are already dear friends, that I know. They are […]
I love taking fall portraits of my boys. The intense colors of the season just call my camera’s name. “Hello….” They call. They sing to me. They beckon like as unto the Hills calling Fraulein Maria. And Fraulein Maria and I just can’t say no to the talking trees and leaves and the laughing breezes. […]
Update!! (((sigh))) Much better…
Grandpas are the best, are they not? Grandpa and Uncle Phil have been here for 10 days helping us and spending time with us and we have had a wonderful time together. Grandpa has installed numerous pipes, faucets, sinks and a garbage disposal (he’s going to get a special place in heaven for that good […]
Where does the time go? How is it that this child is almost three years old? When did that happen? I thought I just had him? I thought he was just nursing and sleeping next to me in my bed. I thought I was just bringing him home from the hospital when he was ten […]
I am the most shameless tooth fairy ever. I also am not very stealthy. I’ve therefore given up trying to dupe my son into believing in the tooth fairy. Today his tooth was so loose that he looked like the 8 year old boy version of Nanny McPhee. In fact we were calling him Nanny […]
I haven’t been at my computer a lot lately which is great as my bottom tends to take on the shape of my chair when I sit here for too long, ya know? Or at least it feels like it. We’ve just been really busy. My Dad and brother are up from California for a […]
They have got to rate up there with some of the best in the world…
Last night I did something very uncharacteristic for me. I went downtown with a girlfriend. Just. For. Fun. She went to Greece earlier this year and came back telling me all about her awesome travels. She told me how she fell in love with Gelato and ate it just about every day when she was […]
Yesterday was such a perfect day. The weather was beautiful and the mountains were calling our names. (Can you tell that I have a Fraulein Maria complex? The hills are alive. For real man.) In the morning we woke up and felt the definite need for donuts. This is a need that must not be […]
‘”So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and […]
My littlest man loves boxing. It’s his favorite game to play on the Wii and it’s one of his favorite things to do with his Daddy lately. (His other favorite is cuddling.) Call me selfish but I really don’t want my kids being in any sport that has a likely potential to cause facial disfigurement […]
So you know that a while back I decided that dadgummit (who made up that ridiculous word anyways? It’s not something I ever say in real life but, dadgummit, I can’t help typing it for some reason), anyways, where was I? Oh, right, DADGUMMIT I needed to do something about my arm loaves. Well, I’m […]
I like other people’s flowers the best because they are free, for one thing. But I like them also because I get to keep them even after they die. I mean, I get to keep my own flowers after they die too but it seems more fun to get something out of other people’s effort […]
Yes, I’m still getting mileage off of our trip to the zoo. This has been a super busy week that has involved a lot more than just a trip to the zoo… Some of it has involved these yummy little darlings… A friend of mine and I both worked on these on Wednesday night for […]
Okay, so if you don’t know the song I’m referring to, you should go and listen to it now. Yes, it’s a bit crass. But it is a total crack up. Especially the bit about the “business socks.” Really. You’ll likely laugh your… something off… But if you don’t, you will at least crack a […]
Really. It was a zoo. I mean, my house is normally zoo like but yesterday we once again went to the zoo. You see, now this shouldn’t really surprise you since our house is a bit of a funny farm, we are members of the zoo. Actually if you want the real snooty low down, […]
Today was apparently nest leaving day somewhere in the vicinity of our backyard for a family of Chipping Sparrows. Initially I found a shivering baby bird and my motherly instinct took over before I Googled what to do for a baby bird. I really just didn’t want the poor thing to be eaten by our […]
Pigs are flying. Not only did I manage to post once today for the first time in over a week but I am now posting again! It’s 10:30 here and the sun is just beginning its descent. It’s just about to nestle itself behind the blanket of the Rocky Mountains for a good night’s sleep. […]
Today The Pastor celebrated the life of his Mom with family and friends. I know it was a joyful celebration of her life and an expression of how much she will be missed by many people. Today the children and I, still back at home, spent the day at the zoo with my dear friend […]
This girl is my soul sister. Not only is she my soul sister but she is beautiful. (And sassy.) This weekend we were blessed enough to enjoy a much awaited visit from some very dear friends of ours whom we met 9 years ago when we moved to a little place known as “Aggieland”, Texas. […]
Before I say anything else, I want to say thank you to all of you who have expressed condolences for the loss of my husband’s Mom. While we are sad that she had to go, we are relieved that she is no longer suffering. It was so hard to hear of all of the ups […]
Ahhhh… the birds are singing, the sun is shining…. love is in the air… Today I had the pleasure of taking engagement pictures of some dear friends. We had a blast… engaged people are wonderful to photograph, I have found, because of all people in the world, I think they least mind being FORCED to […]
Okay, I know he’s not a baby anymore but he’s my baby okay? I was so excited when I uploaded these pictures and saw all of that beautiful bokeh in the background. Few things in a picture make me as happy as nice bokeh. Diffused light through trees makes for some beautiful bokeh. I don’t […]
We have a whole bunch that needs doing today, the biggie being that we need to attack our basement before it reaches up the stairs and grabs us with its green slimy tentacles of death and sucks us into its writhing abysmal belly for its next meal. We have some dear friends coming up for […]
Whenever we go out we inevitably get asked one of two questions, but usually both, at least 14 times per hour. The first question being, “Are they all yours?” and the second one being, “Are they all boys?” and the third one being, “Are there any twins?” and the fourth one being “How far apart […]
I bet I s-s-scared you, didn’t I? This place has been a ghost town for a while… well, I should correct myself… it seems that you’ve been here. I have not! We took a mini-vacation this past week. Some friends lent us their lovely 27 foot shiny new camp trailer and we really enjoyed it. […]
Ahhh… the sun is shining (well, actually it’s dark outside), the birds are singing (do geese honking count as singing?), the sky is blue (although a very dark shade of it as I write this), children are laughing (I’m sure they are somewhere… mine are sleeping though), the only sounds I can hear (the geese […]
A boy’s work is never done.
It feels like it’s been so long since I’ve blogged. You’ll be happy to know it’s mostly just because I haven’t had an awful lot to say… Oh, and we’ve still had sick kids off and on for a while… Oh, and it’s been off and on really nice outside (even though it’s currently cold […]
That’s what the high was for today and we couldn’t have been happier. We decided that we had to commemorate the gorgeous weather by donning shorts (or capris in my case) and going on a family hike to our favorite natural place in our city, Fish Creek Park, Canada’s largest urban park according to Alberta […]
I am sorry for all of the picture posts lately (that is if you don’t so much like seeing a bazillion pictures of the same things over and over… my kids, snow, my kids, snow, my kids, snow… etc…) but there’s just not a lot happening right now other than my kids and snow. My […]
Only because I’ll have nothing to do with lemonade right now. I’m tired of snow and ice. Robert Frost proves that I’m not alone in my feelings that this stuff begins to feel like a curse after a while. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say […]
What? You think I’m delusional? You’re right actually. It never snows this much at Christmas time here. You think, “Lady, c’mon. It’s spring time. The only pretty ring time. Birds sing… a ding-a-ling-a-ling. Sweet lovers love.” Not so fast Buster. This is Canada! April is also known as, “What the heck time of year is […]
She is planning to go to sleep real soon. But heck… it just got quiet here. I don’t want to go to sleep and waste all of this glorious silence! I have so many pictures from before I got Photoshop that I have a seemingly endless supply of stuff to fiddle with. Tonight I played […]
Since the day she started her blog, I’ve loved Ree @ Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. Though the face of her blog and the amount of readers she has, has changed drastically since way back then (for a while there her commenters were a cozy little group of about 10! How quickly that changed!) she […]
My oldest boy turns 8 today. We all went swimming at a local aquatic centre this morning for his birthday celebration. Tonight we are eating tacos and then birthday cake. I can’t believe this child is 8 years old. I don’t know how that happened so fast. He knows how proud I am of him. […]
Ah, alliteration. It’s good for the soul. Okay, so maybe it’s not great for the soul but it works for blog titles. Years ago my Dad used to take pictures of bizarre things, so we thought, like his work truck after a new paint job and bushes that he planted and far off mountain vistas […]
I took this picture of a very dirty red rotary phone at a neat old fire station where my cousin is a firefighter. We had the pleasure of staying with his family last Summer when we drove home from California and we were treated to a field trip of sorts at the Fire Station. You […]
Have you ever heard the song, “Why does the sun shine?“, which has been re-recorded by They Might Be Giants? We all love that song around here. The kids practically know it off all by heart. Well, this post has nothing to do with that song. But the sun is wonderful especially when it is […]
As you all know I love taking pictures. I always have… albums and albums full of pictures from throughout my life prove this. Ever since getting my camera back in late June I have been trying to learn as much as possible. The same is true of how consumed I’ve been with photoshop ever since […]
I love how he sits like this on the steps. I couldn’t help myself… He sits like this in the car too. Bottom on the seat and paws on the floor. Cracks me up!
Because it feels like art when I am doing it…
I’ve been going through a handful of old pictures and starting to upload them to my computer. A lot of them needed fixing due to over or under exposure. I thought you all might get a kick out of the string of Golden Retrievers throughout these pictures… The Rusty years…. The Shasta years… The Arthur […]
I don’t have to have a real reason right? The monkey man… err… uh… umm… I mean The Pastor. Just as cute as any baby monkey… He’s pure and perfect… with eyes like the sea after a storm… (ten points if you know the movie off hand… points can be used at any sdfaowueroinad store […]
These pictures aren’t quite as old as the one I posted yesterday obviously, since the subjects are still little, but they were taken before my Photoshop craze days. So I deicided to pop some of them over to Photoshop to see what I could do with them. I mostly just like making them into black […]
Two posts in one day? You’d think I had spare time on my hands or something. Not really. Today we were just super efficient with school so I had extra time to post earlier today. Tonight I wanted to see what I could do in photoshop with some pictures I had taken last Summer on […]
They go together real well. Have I mentioned how much fun Photoshop is?
I love it that when my boys go out to play, in their minds they are going out to work. They have business plans. Entrepreneurial dreams and visions. They have a chain of command and they are constantly reviewing the progress made on the many projects they have going on at any time. I am […]
Do you like where you live? Do you love it? What is your favorite part of where you live? What is your least favorite part? If you don’t like or love where you live, why not? Where would you live if you could live anywhere? If I could live anywhere I’d live snugly between the […]
Brothers will never fail to surprise me. How they can go from throwing clumps of dirt at each other because they are mad that “he was digging in my mud pit!!” to showing the sweetest affection, I’ll never know. I’m sure I was never ever so volitile in my affections, ever in my life. Never. […]
Hope you like… (‘scuse the long drawn out ending!)
Tonight we took the boys out up on a small hill to watch the lunar eclipse. They were super excited about it. When we got home I thanked them for coming with us to watch the eclipse and my oldest replied, “What?! You’re thanking us for having a good time looking at something awesome? That […]
I know how much some of you love picture posts. I like them too. It’s funny because when I started blogging I shared very few pictures because I had an awful camera. I wrote a lot more then. I still love to write but photography has become such a passion of mine that I realize […]
Over the last several weeks I’ve been taking pictures of all of the families at church for a new church directory. This morning I shot about 4 or 5 families. In between families three of my favorite girls asked me to take their picture together. I’ve been wanting to take their pictures for a while, […]
who cares about violets? (okay, really, I do… okay? For all of you violet lovers who just decided that I needed to go eat snail poison after what I just said about violets.) But really… violets don’t so much matter right now when I have these sitting in my kitchen. (((((sigh))))) I don’t get flowers […]
You know when people are describing something and they don’t want to go into all the details? They say something like, “…and what not…” or maybe, “Baduh baduh baduh” or “yadda yadda yadda.” This post is the type of thing they are whatnotting or yaddayaddaing or baduhbaduhing over. It’s really nothing pertinent to the big […]
Light and shadows. They go together, ya know… like a horse and carriage. They work. They are like peaches and cream. They make good bedfellows. They fit like hand and glove. They are a couple. They got hooked up… like a super long time ago. They are BFFFFFFFs. So today I was going to post […]
A “Thank God that life exists after winter” fix. Thankfully it’s warmed up since the day hell almost froze over. It’s now only 10 degrees Fahrenheit which is definitely better but really… let’s be honest, it’s still pickin’ cold! So I decided that I need some color before my eyes. I need to be reminded […]
Last night somewhere around midnight the Pastor and I decided that we needed to rearrange the house. Really. We moved parts of the family room to the living room and parts of the living room to the kitchen and family room and parts of the family room to a bedroom. And we are all much […]
You never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes they wake up cheerful and sunny. They smile and sing and say you are pretty. Other times they appear to have been run over by a freight train and look at you like you were the engineer that caused the wreckage that is their sad sorry […]
DO NOT STEAL MY PHOTOS! Go check out the other participants! Well, to be quite honest, I don’t know if I’m really playing this game completely by the rules. I cannot, alas, go out on a whim and take pictures of landmarks. Something about having four children and living in an <s>arctic […]
Do you live in sunny Southern California? Florida? Corpus Christi, Texas? The Australian Outback! (Helloooooo down there! My kids want to know, “What is it like to walk upside down?”) Are you feeling a mite sweaty? Feeling a bit too clammy? Does your arm hurt from fanning yourself so much? Is your skin painfully supple? […]
They do. Oh, do they ever. And their mothers take pictures of it.
Look at this face. Does this look like the face of a person who is thinking about the state of the global economy? Does this? Maybe not. But he really is. He is wondering if Pampers stocks are going to plummet because of the recession. He is worried about his 401K. He is actually not […]
The North wind doth blowAnd we shall have snowAnd what will the robin do then? Poor thing.What will the robin do then? He’ll sit in the barn and keep himself warm and hide his head under his wing. Poor thing. ~Mother Goose (I don’t think she really wrote it but that’s the only credit I […]
I’ve mentioned before that we like taking Friday outings whenever we can in order to combat the vortex that is cabin fever. Today we split up. The Pastor and our toddler went and ran errands downtown and the rest of us went to a big park near the river, not far from our house. There […]
Third children are the best. They are happy, cheerful, helpful, adorable, outgoing, shy at the right times, funny and intelligent. They really are all that. I got to spend a little bit of time with my third child today and we had a blast looking out the window at the crazy swirly snow. And who […]
Children grow so fast. It makes the mother’s heart go pitter pat doesn’t it? It sometimes even draws a tear. Or two. One day they are just little kids… And before you know it they are big. Real big. Super tall long legged strangers. And husbands… well, they go the other way I guess… You […]
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Yesterday we met the Duck Family. I hope you didn’t believe a word they said to you. They’re nothing but a bunch of quack heads. Or so I was told. By a little bird. This little bird. This bird wanted me to let you all know that it’s really sorry for the poor lighting conditions […]
If you think this post is going to be about birds you couldn’t be more right. However I stole the title of my post from a really wonderful CD by a truly talented band called Innocence Mission. On the Birds of My Neighborhood album can be found one of my favorite songs, Lakes of Canada. […]
Today I had a severe case of cabin fever. When I get like this I drive The Pastor crazy. The poor man. He is so good to me but sometimes I take him by the lapels (or whatever cloth is most handy somewhere about his neck) and tell him that I must get out of […]
I Photo-shopped toniiiiight… (hat tip to this of course.) Not to mention I’m up too late toniiiiiiight. Don’t mind me. I frequently get songs from various classic American musicals in my head and they come out at the most bizarre times. I’ve been known to break out in a rousing rendition of Oklahoma! on more […]
This morning came too early. My eyes found themselves being rubbed out of their closed state after a short night of Unisom induced slumber. My eyes were forced out of bed by two yelling and laughing scratchy little voices. My eyes bumbled their way to the bathroom and then stumbled down to big white rectangle […]
A picture of mine has been published at Schmap Worldwide Travel Guides for Calgary. What’s funny is that it’s a picture that I took out the window of my car while driving (well, my husband was driving) over a bridge. Kinda cool to have a picture published somewhere other than my leetle corner of Blogtopia. […]
Insert all sorts of shock and astonishment and curious looks here because I know that you didn’t really believe me when I told you how addictive Photoshop can be. Wipe that look off your face now and let’s get down to bidness. You know how when you’re really pregnant and your baby is turning all […]
Well, you know me… I’m just sitting here at my desk piddling away with Photoshop. I took this photo at Lake Louise several weeks back. You know, before it was frozen solid. I love this picture. It really is one of my favorites yet. Tonight I turned it into a postcard. It’s for you. So, […]
Okay, so I’m a Photoshop Beaver in training. And the training part shows. But gosh, I’m having fun. First thing’s first. I made this collage of a bunch of the pictures of roses that I took last Summer in California… mostly because I was practicing various PS techniques but I decided to turn it into […]
I’m just tinkering with my new toy. Exhibit A: My kids cavorting like woodland elves through the forest of Kananaskis Country. Exhibit B: My silly niece decked out in leopard print. And a dangerously loud fuzzy hat that you might see in a Mardi Gras parade. Exhibit C: My dashing and available (or not available… […]
Tonight we had to go out and run a couple of errands. It is absofreakinlutely cold here. Tonight, with wind chills it is supposed to dip down to around -30 Celsius (by the way, that’s still really cold in Fahrenheit!) We dropped by the library to pick up a movie for the kids to watch […]
Just try taking Christmas pictures with four boys and a dog. I’m betting some of you have. I’m sure success will come eventually. I just took about 10 pictures (granted I just decided at random — didn’t even make sure their clothes or faces were clean…) and I think only one of them is remotely […]
You’ve been warned. This post is very picturey today! My 7 year old is really into medieval knights and all that good stuff as you may remember from my recent duct tape post. He’s also a talented little artist. Recently I’ve been collecting and scanning his best pieces of artwork. Here is a recent sampling: […]
It was last night. We’ve had a couple of flurries once or twice in Sept. and Oct. but this was the first real deal. When it hit I was driving a new friend home from a get together of ladies from church, an evening that was really a wonderful blessing and such an encouragement. Well, […]
Surely that is the title of a book. It’s about a little blind girl who spends all day in her Grandma’s garden listening and talking to the little birdies that come to splash in the happy little bird bath…… Hmmm… that’s starting to sound eerily like another story I made up read once… This afternoon […]
According to my boys. I was commanded heartily emplored to take a picture of these things. The most amazing things in the world. It’s awfully lucky I had a camera with me to document these amazing finds. Otherwise the world would never know and surely our systems of government would fall, our spleens would all […]
In the dead of winter when I begin complaining about cabin fever, round about the time I start cursing the weather man… just about when I start getting really annoyed with booger freezing temperatures and when I start taking not only every snow dump, but every individual beautifully unique snowflake, personally — I mean, as […]
I like faces. I particularly like these faces though. I guess I’m sorta partial to them. A person tends to feel that way about people that she birthed. Ya know? You tend to feel that way, no matter how much they drive you crazy sometimes, because once upon a pregnancy you dreamed what these faces […]
I have been a bad blogger lately. But a better human being. So I’m not going to bother flogging myself for my lack of posting here. Sometimes I do just have to take a few steps away from the computer in order to distance myself a bit from everything in it! So that’s where I’ve […]
Goodness but that sounds like the title to a book. I think it would be about a little deaf girl who loved to sit in her Grandmother’s butterfly garden. She would spend much of her time there and her family worried that she could become a taciturn recluse if she continued on in this manner. […]
That’s what my five year old calls our little local nature preserve. The Rooveen. It’s a beautiful ravine where we can enjoy the serenity of a little bit of nature just a short 15 minute walk from our house. Wild flowers. Birds. An ocassional cougar… thankfully we haven’t seen one of those yet! So after […]
Today, after conquering the beast of regrouping with 10’s and 100’s places, we decided to go on a nature hike. And do you think I was going to be caught dead or alive without my Nikon D80? I think not. It was a beautiful day for a hike. Breezy but warmish. I decided that this […]
Broken Sojourners 