“Questions” Today was my first day of my summer break. I turned all of my grades in Friday afternoon, but today was the first day that I should have gone to work that I didn’t. It was a pretty awesome day! I got up with Weber and for a change, I made breakfast and his lunch. When we both leave in the morning, he does both of these chores because I am much slower with my morning routine. After he…
“Music for Hope” Today was a busy day, but a “good” busy day. It was one filled with friends, food, family, a little shopping and music. What it was not filled with was time for today’s photo. In the few minutes that I was home in between shopping and leaving for the concert at church, I did think to put a generic lens on my camera and put it in my bag “just in case” there was something that would…
“Growing Pains” Technically this is not a good photo, but it is a perfect photo for me today. I got a new super zoom lens. It is HUGE! So huge, in fact, that the camera store did not have a UV filter large enough in stock. It is now on order. I was hesitant to do too much with the lens until the filter comes in, but I couldn’t resist a few shots. The lens weighs a little over four…
“Morning Pages” I call it disciplined; many members of my family call it anal retentive or OCD. With many aspects of my life, mostly the creative ones, I am incredibly disciplined. With things like keeping my email inbox cleared out, not so much. With the things I choose to be disciplined about, I am ever faithful to the practice. In thinking today about how to photograph the discipline in my life, I decided to focus on the one thing…
“Commencement” Obviously I forgot to post this last night. Commencement itself was not necessarily relaxing, but it signifies the end of the semester and the end of this school year, which means it also marks the beginning of a period of relaxation for me. Yay! Though I can’t stand Pomp and Circumstance because I have played it SO many times (and that was just last night, not all the many years previously), I do enjoy playing for graduation. It is a…
“Midnight Snack”
“Walking” I’m not much on exercise for exercise sake, but I do enjoy walking as my primary mode of transportation. Harley likes to go for walks too. She is much better behaved on her leash than Adidas so she got the honor of being in today’s photo because I knew I could deal with her and my camera at the same time. The same could not be said of Adidas and the camera!
“Scheduled Sabbath” Right now there are way too many things going on in my world. I am counting the minutes (actually the number of exams) until this semester is over. To put it simply, I am exhausted. I have learned to say “no” to a few things, but I still don’t seem to get enough rest. In the past I have been advised to put sabbath time on my calendar and treat it like any other appointment. I need to…
“Silent Love” After our big graduation celebration yesterday, we all needed a quiet day today. This morning in church the pastor called all of the mothers forward and gave us each a rose. He offered a prayer for all of us, but did not stop there. Prayers were then offered for those who have lost their mothers, for those who want to be mothers, and for those who have or had a broken relationship with their mothers. By the…
“Joy” Erin began her day as a twenty-one year old college student and finished it as a college graduate with a degree in mathematics and about to begin her life in the working world as a spatial analyst. It some ways it is hard to believe that she is already out of college and about to be independent and in the same breath I can say that I can’t believe that she is only twenty-one is beginning her professional career….