A Spring Stroll

We made it! The northern hemisphere survived winter and the reward is a spring more beautiful than I can recently remember. As I walk around my yard and as Cabo and I walk the neighborhood, signs of new life are everywhere. I love photography, that goes without saying. But I also love words. To combine …

March Photo Challenge: Eight

In honor of the eight years he's hosted this photography challenge, PJ's prompt for March is Eight. Spring may have finally sprung here in middle Missouri and I find it finally tolerable outside again. My mood and attitude is improving since I can look outside at green grass and the beginnings of the earth stirring …

Sunday Scripture

Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy. ~Psalm 96:12 Even though Spring is the normal time for the earth to explode with color after winter, for me, the colors that light the earth on fire in Autumn are doing exactly that....singing …

Awwww Monday: Santa’s elves

Every year I try and take some pics of the grand girls in Santa hats during the Christmas season. You would think this project would get easier as they get older (more cooperative?).....but that is not necessarily the case. This year I made a tactical error and tried to do this after an afternoon of …

Quieter and slightly subdued

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. ~Henry Rollins October has put away …