wings

"Courage is not the absense of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redman

Cupcake

"nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - Sir William Van Horne

snow

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -Lao Tzu

Matthews in the Snow!

"I shall start at the beginning. Though of course the beginning is never where you think it is. Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think that the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born... Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole." - Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale

Below Freezing

"Children are a message we send into a time we will never know." -Anon

autumn

"He had given me the power of one - one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination. Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defense system, and with it he gave me hope." - Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

The Child is Mine

Wedding Bliss

My dear sister Amy was married recently, and here are a couple photos I took of the ladies getting ready for the event.

You're So Vain

Father's Day Family Photoshoot

Wow what a beautiful day! And what a beautiful family! Thanks to mama Sara for having me take some photos of her men.