LIFESTYLE
finding beauty right where you are
Every year, around this time, I grow a bit heart-sick. While I scroll through images on my phone of apple orchards, cozy sweaters, and brightly colored leaves, our air remains warmly humid and summer foliage
unravel your photos 02 | see the big picture
I’ve been quietly working through the photography boot camp, Unravel Your Photos, with Life:Captured and Artifact Uprising the past few weeks. These lessons are a sort of retreat for myself–efforts I know will pay enormous dividends
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You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt olive | You feel things deeply, and for being still so small, you often express yourself with equal emotion and zeal.
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You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. –Matthew 5:14, The Message olive | You’ve lost so many teeth the last few months, leaving large gaps in your bright smile. Sometimes
an interview with fresh tangerine
Living on a small budget, I really appreciate quality clothing and accessories that outlast trends and time. For those of you who know me, I tend to stick with fairly simple basics in neutral palettes
a letter to my children | summer portraits weeks 26 – 35
Dearest children, We are now several weeks into our school year and have been reading oodles of fables together lately, samples from the more familiar Aesop’s Fables to India’s Jataka Tales to West African Folklore, and while the characters and
unravel your photos 01 | class overview
Although I have spent much time during the last 18 months discovering ways to simplify, de-clutter, and organize our daily living and home, I admit I am a complete mess in terms of digital photo
TAOS, NEW MEXICO
Take me someplace where we can be silent together. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things We left for New Mexico before the sun, my one hand in his, the other holding coffee. I’ve always struggled
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground. ― Christina Rossetti olive | your heart is full of laughter, especially when your father is swinging from a tree limb. blythe | watering the large oak, you