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In a normal year, my social media feed would be full of posts from music teacher friends and parents of music students. It’s concert season. Band, orchestra, choir, drama, and others. Schools, churches, and others. Cute little ones, well-refined older ones, the ones in between who have neither the charm of the littles nor the … Read more
I had the opportunity to take a few shots of a beautiful family this week. Mom reached out and asked if I could take their Christmas card photo. Sure! (I’m not including that one here.) We were about to walk through the grass to the spot where we were going to set up when the … Read more
My only Nikon photos this week were from Thanksgiving. The Climbing Daddy made caprese salad on toothpicks. When he realized The Kid wasn’t going to eat them, he made toothpick snacks out of fruit. Flowers on the table (in the back yard in the sun) That’s all for this week! See you next week!
Climbing Daddy and I have a tradition of going to a National Park or Monument or something similar for Thanksgiving; Tall Daddy and The Kid go to his family’s Thanksgiving. We decided we wouldn’t go this year. The parks have never been crowded on Thanksgiving Day, but we’d have to stay somewhere. Camping is always … Read more
Tomorrow (and every day, but for now—tomorrow), I invite you to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is a word that has lost meaning because it’s used so much nowadays, but we are not, on the whole, even mediocre at it. Yet. If you’re enjoying a meal full of your favorite foods tomorrow (or any day), instead of … Read more
The weather has been amazing (finally!) and we spent some time at a local park with a lake. The water critters were fun to see and to shoot. Sadly, the turtles had caught fishing line. Not far from the lake is a section of many rose bushes. The roses ran the gamut between ready to … Read more
What a fantastic opportunity we have been forced into! I know that could be interpreted sarcastically; I mean it completely sincerely. I am a teacher. Sometimes, I am a phenomenal teacher. Sometimes, I am a mediocre teacher. We all know teachers who have been teaching for a long time, teaching the same thing, plugging along … Read more
The Kid and his friend had a masked playdate at a park. They’ve been friends since they were two. While they played quite a bit, they did sometimes just walk and talk. They indulged my requests to take pictures through the drain holes in the wall. To the side, there’s a plot of grassy plants. … Read more
“There are starving children in Ethiopia.” I was told this regularly as a child when I didn’t like the food I was served. I’m sure people’s shaming country varied (children are, sadly, starving all over the world), but this is a familiar refrain to many of us. The Kid eats reasonably well and also has … Read more
The Climbing Daddy had picked up a few cactus clippings that he was planning to root. They sat in a cardboard box on the table on the back patio for a week or less, waiting for attention. He went out to do something with them and found a friend in the box: She’s the fifth … Read more