It’s Friday, and today it is raining. I find myself not wanting to work in any manner….nor to create. Instead, I want to drink coffee and stare out the window thinking…absolutely nothing. More than that I wouldn’t mind bing watching all day. Perhaps it’s due to the rain or maybe because I am tired. Regardless, […]
Splash. Splash. Flutter. Up it goes flying only to come once more to its resting place. This time bringing friends to blithely join in the fray. The water flew and the birds danced from stone to stone. Birds playing is also a routine I’ve seen outside the window of our birdbath. Their obvious enjoyment of […]
January has come to a close. It is hard to believe that. It feels like yesterday it was the first week. This year has gotten off to interesting start already. My January (February) Resolutions have taken time to consider. There’s two resolutions groups I’m going to share with you. The first is what I wish would […]
For most of us, we’ve heard it…but has it really sunk in? That Christmas beyond what might be silly and perhaps to some childish is actually a love story. We play, decorate, sing songs, and our spirit perhaps higher than all year ’round hold feasts in celebration of one who loves us the most. He […]
This year I hope for you a Merry Christmas! One that is bright for you, that cheers your heart, and you know that you are loved. […]
Perhaps its my unfinished (but been doing it ten years) graphic design major within me, but color meanings and symbolism is fascinating to me. It matters the unspoken words of color…and flowers. For example if someone knows language of flowers: orange tulips is to convoy understanding and appreciation (usually in a relationship). Fun fact the […]
For a long time my family focused on making more of making Christmas memories and having outings than actual Christmas gifts. From time to time it might be one large family gift and stockings or simply just the stockings. Ironically…the stockings were often our favorite gifting we’d get. Every other year or two we’d get […]
Finding the beauty in everyday isn’t easy. But you know what that’s the beauty of it. Sometimes the hardest thing you will ever have to do is beautiful. Often, times it is the simplicity of things that stretch us. You grow. Relationships that is filled with warmth, love, and realness is beautifully hard. It is […]
Seems like that’s a popular saying around where I am. “It’s just around the bend. Around the corner. I see the light at the end of the tunnel.” Etc. No doubt you’ve heard something similar. It got me thinking…well there’s a lot that I’m thinking honestly, but specifically it got me thinking on hope. How […]
I am pleased as punch to announce “Hello Camera Academy”! This online course is a beginner photography course where you learn photography basics, build your foundation, and go photograph. Creating great memories is one of my favorite things to do – but being prepared to photograph the essence, the feeling, the personality of that memory […]