Family
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A boy and his dog
My brother and his dog Isabelle. Poor pup is getting old and is partially blind.
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Happy Birthday to my little bro!
Happy Birthday bro! 28 isn’t that bad! 🙂 Love you!
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Dad and Me
To celebrate Father’s Day here’s a few good photos of my dad and me! A bit blurry but coming down the aisle 9 years ago! Backpacking at Texoma a few years ago. At Saguaro National Park in Tucson. At Bahia Honda State Park in the Keys on one of Dad’s annual trip to the Keys when we lived in Florida. Just Dad when we went to Glacier for a quick evening because we both had trips that coincided with each other to that area. Another Keys trip! And a Christmas trip to Florida. See ya soon Dad! 🙂 Love ya!
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
A few weeks ago we went to Scarborough Fair, a renaissance festival south of Dallas. The last time I had gone was in highschool; I think it was a reward trip for all of the kids who passed the standardized test that we had to take. It has definitely grown in the last 12-15 years and since it was the weekend it was especially busy. There were lots of things to lust over but I enjoyed looking at the costumes. Chris’ brother has been volunteering as part of the cast for the last several years and spends time learning how to speak as they did during Tudor era England as…
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Silent Sunday | Pet Portraits with Guinness and Mitzi
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Thanks Mom!
This is my mom. Dad calls her Donna, I call her Mom and Moosie (a name I came up with in high school from Moo-Moo which I don’t know how that started) and Zoe, my niece, calls her Mimi. She’s cool and I love her. We like to shop together, do creative things, and somehow I eventually caught on to cooking despite resisting strongly throughout my growing up years. She adds butter to things I wouldn’t, like eggs, but you know, that’s ok. But, today, Mother’s Day, I’d like to thank her for my freckles! I can’t imagine having a bare face. I mean, it would be interesting to see…
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I could be here…
May 4, 2010, Rice Field Shelter in Virginia, Appalachian Trail It doesn’t fail. There are always particular days that throw me back to last year. March 13: Started the trail, April 20: Getting close to Damascus, May 4: Dad comes to hike, Ashleigh slips away while we have a beautiful sunset. I wish I was out there again and I wish she wasn’t gone. But of course I’m done with the trail and she really has left. See, it really is about the memories you make, the little moments in time that somehow seal themselves to your soul. Eventually we may have scratchy brains that struggle to remember the exact…
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The Egg Hunt
A few of my favorites from Easter, I took tons so I picked a few to share. If you are friends with me on FB the rest of the album is over there. Zoe had a blast looking for eggs, is now smart enough to organize and separated the plastic ones from the hard boiled ones, even sometimes eschewing the hard boiled ones for the plastic because she knew candy was inside. She even said one of the hardboiled ones was ugly and didn’t pick it up! It was brown on one side and yellow on the other so I flipped it over to the yellow and managed to get…
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Where the 20 & 30 year olds have as much fun as the 2.5 year old.
We should’ve used a wax pencil but instead went with tape. Chris did the Z, I did the AT symbol. Mom had the best idea of buying a tablecloth to put down instead of splashing newspapers everywhere. Worked well, too, because I knocked a bowl of coloring over and so did Zoe. Zoe had a ton of fun! Stephanie, her mom and my SIL, said that the adults were having too much fun and it was supposed to be for the kid. I hadn’t done this in, oh, maybe 20 years, maybe less, so it was a blast revisiting a childhood craft. Curt had a lot of fun in between…
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Gayle’s Roses
My mother in law has beautiful roses and they are always blooming like crazy. She has some in the ground in the back yard but she also has these gigantic tubs of them in her driveway. One side of her driveway is lined in roses and the other in tomatoes. It’s a pretty neat way to drive into your garage! I’m a sucker for roses anyway. I would often go home from my grandmother’s house with a rose or two to stick in water at home. She had a great green thumb and it’s too bad she can’t get out and garden these days. Enjoy these Friday roses!