A LIFE IN FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY...

Happy Valentine's Day!

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hope you are feelin'' the love...and i wish i had some "never shared before" nugget of wisdom about love to share with you...but i really don't. i think in our hearts most of us know a bit about what love is, we just don't always act on it. but one lesson i have learned the hard way: those you love and you yourself will not alway be around, so share the contents of your heart with those you hold dearest and if you really want a lesson in LOVE try sharing some of the "heart stuff" with those you don't really like...gotta be strong to do that......

guys...you know i LOVE you and your know who you are.

a couple of faves from last year

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today is a rainy, lazy sort of day and i intended on scrapbooking after finding so much inspiration on Pinterest! but i also bought some new actions and wanted to play a bit with them so here i sit on my computer. without further ado....three adorable photos of children...

candid of her...

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their big day is coming up...

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the dinner hour is always finer when he is in the house

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they is always a place at the table for you Matt...or Stef, or Kellie, or Scott, or Scottie....

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Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

rainy Saturday afternoon....

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it is a dreary and dark Saturday afternoon, but the house seems a welcome harbor after the crowds in Walmart. I put the groceries away, made a pot of coffee and sat down to my computer. just to check in...i don't think i will be posting quite as many photos on facebook in the future....still not sure, but planning to keep up with my flickr, blog and google and Pinterest accts. i don't really even know how many folks look at this page or really look forward to my photos so i will do what seems to suit me best for the time being. i love facebook but don't want to wear folks out over there. anyway....chatting about today...

i have had several inquiries about sessions and weddings, so the future for A Life In Focus looks good, Lord willing. the weather will improve, the days grow longer and brighter and Spring and Summer just around the corner! so tired already of Winter clothes, and with Christmas over and no snow expected, Winter has little to recommend it. Bring on the tank tops and flipflops! i have been really enjoying our fireplace and have read several more Jo Nesbo, Harry Hole books...can't get enough of them. if you like the Swedish, Norwegian mystery writers genre, try Nesbo, after Steif Larsson, he is my fave.

this morning i found some volunteer daffodil bulbs. what a find. could kick myself for not planning more this Fall. one year i did a large planting of bulbs and the mice and/or moles got them all. no matter, this Fall i am going out on a limb and planting more. those tender green spears are iconic Spring plants and stir my Winter slow blood like sap rising in a maple. our eyes are starved for green by February and Easter beckons us like Christmas did a few months ago. most folks like holidays. i love to string lights, hang flags, hide eggs, plan cookouts, watch fireworks, swim in the ocean, walk through long dusky evenings, greet trick or treaters, cook a turkey and find the perfect tree. holidays seem to mark our year with traditions, expectations and excitement. and before you have finished your Easter ham it seems we are starting a new school year with the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and new shoe leather in our noses. anyway...Valentines day is just around the corner. and red, the signature color for sweethearts, is seen everywhere from the roses in the florist to the large boxes of sweets. ..a fire-y hue to inflame the senses and send you hunting for your sweetheart, to remind him of course of what you want...?I personally don't care for candy in fancy boxes or red roses...i would rather have Jordon Almonds and Peonies, or maybe some cool new software..Ha!

okay, off to check the fire and heat up my coffee cup.... have a good evening.

the girl next door...

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good morning kitty

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fun with my neighbor!

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Lunch at the Atlantic HOtel

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kellie

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so...catching up

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the weather has been beautiful. but not as wintery as i would like. i hope we have one good snow this season and then on to Easter! but admit the sun makes me feel warm and hopeful. our pets love to take sunbaths and soak up the golden rays. i don't know how they do it...stay so fit. they both would sleep 24/7 if i let them...but can jump up in a minute and run around a frosty field or climb a tall pine...and they are both older!

yesterday i went with a friend to lunch and then to the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin. the atmosphere there is warm and elegant, the fire was burning on the hearth and i desperately wanted to take a nap on the velveteen settee...but no worries...i didn't. here are a few random shots from town....

i had a great time "playing" with my old friend and honestly we both on in a place in our lives where we can. she is retired and i work part time... so we savor the moments. and at any age, it is wise to stop and refresh you spirit with some "play time" whatever that may be for you. it benefits your mind and your body.....

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

less is more....in photography and life.

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Less is more....wish i was less complicated and simpler by nature...

through the window

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i shoot this little chickadee through my den window. i have a camera next to my fave chair and a feeder is attached to the glass for my viewing pleasure (and to keep the squirrels off) so while i was drinking coffee this morning i shared my breakfast with these tiny black-capped creatures. they are endlessly charming and have satisfied my desire to have caged birds...we have had a number of parakeets, one lived to be 13!)
I am staying close to home today because i am expecting the delivery of a new lens!!! a beautiful portrait lens, so if anyone is thinking of getting some portrait work done...i can do that! also if anyone wants to come over to my house one morning to let me practice on your child shoot me a mail or facebook me to see if i can work it in.
have a great afternoon...i need coffee!

why i love my house...

2012-01-13T18:45:00.001-05:00

today was cold and windy and i was up early for an appt. the morning sun was poured like syrup over our wood floors and our den felt snug and warm. and i thought...i love this house and decided to list my reasons for loving it.

it was built by my family and the good people of Holly Grove Mennonite Church in an old fashioned house raising..the framing that is.

it is a warm house....with a fireplace we use often, a gas parlor stove in the living room and a good heating system, i am rarely cold here. in the summer, i am shaded by trees and have central air.

it has lots of windows. as a photographer, i love that.

all my holidays for the last 33 years have been celebrated with family and friends here. this house is soaked in good vibes.

i have 4 acres of field and woods to walk in...and take photos of leaves, flowers, pets, skies...

the seasons are beautiful here. snow on the evergreens, piles of fall leaves, trees haloed by the mist of new red buds in spring, pumpkins on the steps, flags flying on the 4th and lights in the windows at Christmas.

my pets love it here and gladly call it home...they add so much to my life.

room for family (too much to clean but i can put them up for the night)

our kids leave close by...and stop by frequently.

i have roots here now. i remember when i planted a tree in the front yard and it was no bigger than a switch. now it shades the yard and shelters the birds.

i feel safe here. i like my neighborhood.

the kids school and our church is within walking distance...should we chose to. now our grandson attends that school.

i have stood on the sidewalk on many nights to gaze at the full moon before locking up and going to bed. it never gets old...the "man in the moon" is both faraway and familiar and catches and holds my eye whenever he is riding high...our house bathed in his silver light....

now...there have been and will be struggles here. we have moles and mildew, rooms that seemed dated, high electric bills, drought and dying flowers, grass that won't grow except for in the driveway, squirrels that raid the feeders, windows that need replacing, iron-y water and ants. but it is Home. so we forgive it its shortcomings, get out the paint brushes, lawnmowers and ladders, clean the gutters, polish the floors, plan parties and share dinner with family.

Home is where the heart is and mine is here.

simple bench

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Leonardo da Vinci – “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

winter day ramblings

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...sort of settling in to a winter routine after all the frenzy of the holidays. the recent cold weather has forced me fireside, but my knitting lies lonely in the corner of the den. i received a new lens this week and i am afraid it has trumped all my other duties. i slapped that honey on my 5d and shot until dark...and i love it. can't wait to try it on some folks...it is a lovely portrait lens. our house has that sort of limp and unloved look after the Christmas decorations come down...but i have opened wide the curtains and cleaned up the tabletops for a cleaner, lighter look. i have plans to paint our living room a dark mushroom, much like our den, but haven't found the energy for a painting project....since i loathe painting. in fact i drew up a list of things to do around the house before next year ends and i am sure i will be working right up to Christmas if i want to get it all done....taking into consideration working and lying on the beach in July!

i am part of a group which shares a photo a day for a year...i have tried many times and didn't quite make it. mainly because if i miss a day or two i want to give up. but this year i plan on staying in even if i don't make it every day. so far using my cell phone it has been easy, but it is just day 4 so might be a little soon to brag!

so...what inspirational thought can i share today....how about the privacy of winter....

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout

Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley

have a great day...you will never be younger than you are today!

portrait of my grandson

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this is his "intense" look...

love my job...

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this is from a retirement party at the Palette....great time for the photographer and the guests!

“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely”
William Somerset Maugham

Good reading for the new year AND some cheer

2011-12-31T15:41:00.000-05:00

HEY! jump start your success in the New year by reading this book by Malcolm Gladwell....it is called Outliers....and an amazing read. I am going to re read it on my Kindle fire, again.... In fact all his books are great. but i love the idea here that genius is just not enough. hard work and practice are at least half of the success equation. so lazy persons need not apply for star status...put your shoulder to the grindstone and push through to make your dreams come true.

and remember: "If you love what you do, you never need to work a day in your life.” I stole this quote from Rick Sammon's website, which all photographers need to check out....http://www.ricksammon.info/

anyways...CHEERS!

your life is waiting...

2011-12-27T10:39:00.000-05:00

We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us...

_Joseph Campbell

a new year is upon us....

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today. Joyce Chapman

so it is time to plant the seeds of some new dreams....give hope wings to soar over the coming months as your plans unfold. one gift we can give ourselves at Christmas is the gift of a year well spent. having accomplished some of the plans and resolutions that we recklessly made last year gives us the fortitude to plan new dreams at this years' end... and to finish something you started is better than money (spoken from one who knows).

so in this Season of giving...give yourself some new dreams....dare to hope for the impossible, if you don't do it someone else will. stretch yourself to the limit to see what you are made of, pray every step of the way....look for God's help (it is all around you) and then share the love, the love you will feel when you realize how wonderfully, beautifully you were made. say "i will" to the great "I AM" become unstoppable.

early this morning

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good morning....

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did a little last minute shopping last evening...Marshalls for stocking stuffer type gifts for the kids and their spouses. small gifts piling up in a cart are more exciting than the big important gift that you hope you got right...

rudolph

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red for Christmas

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Christmas program tonight

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hello Thursday....

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MAYA ANGELOU QUOTE

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

— Maya Angelou

cheer!

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pine...

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last winter

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heart-breakers....

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christmas kitty

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the Christmas shirt

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sunday morning.

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shots from the woods and fields around our place......

Write it down, when I have perished:
Here is everything I've cherished;
That these walls should glow with beauty
Spurred my lagging soul to duty;
That there should be gladness here
Kept me toiling, year by year . . .
Every thought and every act
Were to keep this home intact.
Edgar A. Guest

hope we get more this year

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hello kitty

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blooming

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vintage tea cup

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"Ain't love grand"?

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My chair....

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i do must everything from this spot....watch birds, pay bills, have coffee and surf the web....it is soft white leather and i got it cheap as it was a floor model....

three

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a child...

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a family....

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shared my morning with my grandson

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another bloom!

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one more ornament

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we got the tree!

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last night we picked our tree, as did our son and his wife....didn't take me long, saw the one destined to brighten our living room in seconds. though i love all kinds, we most often have gotten a Frazier Fir...simply because the branches are so sturdy and they seem the iconic Christmas tree. ours was purchased through our local Christian school in our neighborhood, so we had no trouble parting with our money. this afternoon after church and before a Carols service the kids and their spouses will decorate it and i will fix a new pork dish and some glazed Brussel sprouts...from my Pinterest board. ...a few presents have are nestled under the tree and piquing interest! have a great Sunday!

"There is only one real deprivation...and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." May Sarton

cheap thrills...ornaments

2011-12-03T11:15:00.001-05:00

even the Dollar Store will offer some pretty ornaments for a buck...so there is no reason to cheat yourself of some of the glitz and glamour of Christmas. pinecones found out of doors and a tube of glitter makes your feel like a 6th grader again and is too much fun. such small, cheap joys should not be ignored when the holiday of all holidays requires sooo much of our time, talents and pocketbooks...so pop open a tube of the glitter and sprinkle on some Joy...i will know you when i see you...you will be the one with the fairy dust on her face...!

" Gloom we will always have with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but Joy requires tending"...Barbara Holland

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we have great holly this year!

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December is here!

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"i open the door. the gorgeous guest from afar sweeps in. in her hands are her gifts-the gifts of hours and far seeing moments, the gift of mornings and evenings, the gift of spring and summer, the gift of autumn and winter. she must have searched the heavens for boons so rare." Abbie Graham via the book

Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

blooming!

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feminine Em...

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look at those faces

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Thanksgiving means family fun!

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love this group!

a broom is a simple but effective tool

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late afternoon on a rainy day

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i love my sofa...

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i have had it for about 12 years...still a keeper.

nature's bounty

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love the natural elements in my yard...pine cones, gum balls, branches, leaves...well until i have to mow and then we have to sweep, rakes and pick up.

a scattering....

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a leaf....

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Good lookin'....

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there is a Mystery to Faith

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there is a Mystery to Faith, and though at times I am totally baffled by it....I would be completely lost without it....

these folks feel like friends AND family...

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pretty bride to be...

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Friends...

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Old friends are often your best friends. They know you well and after knowing you that well, they still like you, obviously, since they have hung around all these years (or they are too lame to make new friends...?) But that is not the case with me. My friends have been hanging around for about 30 years and we can still hit the right note when we hang out. And even better, my old friends bring along their new friends and chances are I will like them too, since we have similar tastes! But I don't want to discount the pleasure and excitement of making new friends. It brings a fresh energy to your life in places where you may have become routine... new ideas, exciting places to explore, hobbies to share and and a reason to take a new path be it the back road or the super highway) In my opinion to have a well rounded life, you need family and friends. And one person you might want to spend some quality time with...is yourself. It is not always possible or desirable to be with those we cherish, and that is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy your own company. Take stock of who you are, your dreams, plans for the future. We ourselves and our circumstances are changing all the time , but often we don't notice the shift. So spending some time in our own company brings us up to speed on the state of our souls and what needs our attention. To drift and dream, plan and pursue....these are worthwhile activites and helps to keep us in touch with ourselves. So enjoy your old friends, be open to new ones and spend some time alone with yourself...you will be a better companion to all who spend time in your company.

fall arrangement

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leaves are better than roses.....

flight

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late bloomer

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Darkling...

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i love this shot

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local beauty

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ocean nymph

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this is a re edit of a photo i took a few years ago. the girl and her dad (friends) stopped to chat with us on the beach. the girl was sitting up on her dad's shoulders and i noticed how charming she was still wet from a romp in the ocean. i really love her face, she had a quiet delicate beauty and seemed not to care if i took her photo...she just ignored me. but i think her patient disregard of me give her a lovely distant focus...

my neighbor...under the lamp light

2011-09-27T19:40:00.000-04:00

I have a great neighbor...she is going through a rough patch right now, so i visited her last evening to talk and cheer her up bit. never shy in front of my camera, she patiently sits and lets me take photos of her while we visit. sometimes i think she forgets i am even photographing her, but in any case what you see is what you get with E. she is actually doing pretty good considering...she fell and cut her leg requiring lots of stitches and broke her toe on the other foot. she is alone, but has good neighbors,friends and extended family. Getty, the stock photography giant has been quite interested in Miss Ethel's pictures. I don't think she understands about her portrait possibly being represented by Getty, so we have left that option open for the future. anyway, she is not as sad as she looks here, she is just doing what she always does for me and my camera...just being herself. and that is what i love about this portrait.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur

old mason jar...makes a great vase.

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“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees” C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” santiz Faith Baldwin quotes (American author 1893-1978)A week ago-- I grieved for the dying summer. I wondered how I could possibly bear the waiting--the eight long months till May. In vain to comfort myself with the thought that I could get through more work in the winter undistracted by thoughts of cricket grounds and country houses. In vain, equally, to tell myself that I could stay in bed later in the mornings. Even the thought of after-breakfast pipes in front of the fire left me cold. But now, suddenly, I am reconciled to autumn. I see quite clearly that all good things must come to an end. The summer has been splendid, but it has lasted long enough. This morning I welcomed the chill in the air; this morning I viewed the falling leaves with cheerfulness; and this morning I said to myself, "Why, of course, I'll have celery for lunch." ("More bread, waiter.")A.A.Milne

color.

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spot of color after such damp gray skies...rained all week.

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"Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that’s how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding."

The Secret

backyard birds

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In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence - Robert Lynd

Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. ~Henry Van Dyke

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for faith is necessary to have wings.
- James M. Barrie

a tiny charmer....

2011-09-12T12:13:00.001-04:00

"A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot."

Author: Alan Beck

a beautiful poem and a couple of beautiful children

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Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted & pieced -- fold, fallow, & plough;
And áll trades, their gear & tackle & trim.
All things counter, original, spáre, strange;
Whatever is fickle, frecklèd, (who knows how?)
With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change:
Práise hím.

I believe it's by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

new season approaching...

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Pug Love...a rescue story

2011-08-19T09:44:00.001-04:00

my daughter in law rescued this love little girl...a pug mix, from the animal hsp where she works. she is a sweet little girl and already stares at Kel with such love in her big brown eyes...

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my daughter in law...always a willing model and so at home in front of the camera. she will be here for lunch today, so i will have my camera charged....

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Wow. What a weekend...the girls and I shot Lance and Kristen's wedding and it was a blast! From makeup sessions to golf carts this couple have stolen my heart. Here are a few quick looks the day...more to follow through out the week.

Lance and Kristen...Married!

2011-07-17T09:59:00.000-04:00

Yesterday my team and I were privileged to be a part of the wedding of Lance and Kristen Thomas! A long and rewarding day, we shot lots of photos and captured many moments of love, between the bride and groom, the couple and their family and between friends and family... A truly epic experience. Thanks to Stef and Kellie for backing me up (I simply could not have done it without you) and thank you Lance and Kristen for choosing A Life In Focus to capture one of the most important days of your lives. God Bless you both in your new life...more to come in the weeks ahead...

doggie in the window

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blondie....

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daughter and grandson...

2011-06-22T22:20:00.000-04:00

we went boating on Sat and the weather was really fine...at least until the end of our ride when were chased in by a storm. but the weather made for some great pics...

“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi quotes (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986)

kellie

2011-06-04T21:15:00.000-04:00

end of the session

2011-06-02T21:47:00.000-04:00

kelllie

2011-05-30T21:49:00.000-04:00

neighbor

2011-05-21T17:08:00.000-04:00

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
John Calvin

2011-05-16T12:40:00.001-04:00

Utata: Tribal Photography

Her future is bright!!! My niece Em...

2011-05-16T09:40:00.000-04:00

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”

Erma Bombeck quotes (U.S. humorist, 1927-1996)

Our kids are gone before we know it. But this girl is well prepared...15th in her class of over 500,a black belt, and has met the boy of her dreams. Her mom (my sis) and dad are struggling with tears at her leaving in the Fall for college, but we couldn't be prouder. Way to go Em!!!

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)