Favorite Photo(s) Friday - my children

"They know me in a way no one ever has.
They open me to things I never knew existed.
They drive me to insanity and push me to my depths.
They are the beat of my heart,
the pulse of my veins,
and the energy in my soul.
They are my kids."

~ unknown
 

I didn't write the above but surely could have
because I've thought and felt every single one of those statements.

They make me laugh until I cry.
And sometimes frustrate the heck out of me.

I couldn't possibly love my children more than I do.

(His idea to use 2 sticks to make a mustache).



And couldn't have ever imagined that I'd be in my middle age years
and be a mama to two young children.

I'm grateful for this second and third chance at motherhood and thank God everyday
for my 3 children.
(the big and the 2 littles)

46/52 and texture Tuesday - the Phoebe eDition

We're transitioning to Winter here in Wisconsin...yes it's coming soon.

I've been in denial about it's arrival, but need to come to acceptance.

The snow will be here.

Taken yesterday of these cattails on a marsh overlooking a pond

 near our home.

I used two layers of Kim's 'Phoebe' texture, 

one in overlay and the other in soft light.

Favorite Photo Friday - walk in the woods

Bittersweet October.
The mellow, messy, leaf kicking perfect pause between
opposing miseries of Summer and Winter.


~ Carol Bishop Hipps

Besides the Autumn poet sings,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

~ Emily Dickinson

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

~ John Bailey

How beautifully leaves grow old.
How full of light and color are their last days.

~ John Burroughs

A little bit of our Sunday afternoon.
A walk in the woods with acorn and leaf collecting thrown in for good measure.
And enjoying the peace and tranquility of this beautiful place.

Favorite Photo Friday - country road

I have a propensity for getting lost when I'm driving out in the country.
Not sure why.

Grace has kind of become my 'guinea pig' as far as trying out new locations for clients.

It's fun because I end up with lots of pictures of her and though
some times things don't turn out the way I thought they might.
I find that's usually okay...

 Tuesday night I thought I remembered a cool old barn next to a stone building on a certain road.

Of course I hadn't written down the name of the road they were on.

We did find a dirt road next to a yellow soybean field.

With beautiful light.

No barn or stone building, but Grace got to pick 'fuzzies'

as she calls them.

And we both got to take in the quiet of an early Fall evening.

(Those fuzzies came home with us and now reside on the kitchen counter in a little vase.)