The Importance of Family - Geese and Goslings

 “Family is not an important thing. 

It’s everything.” 

— Michael J. Fox

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The Big Day!

 

 

Loving Family

 What can you do to promote world peace? 

Go home and love your family.

~ Mother Teresa

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Hungry Babies

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

 ~ Karen Maezen Miller

Holding the Future

Great Grandfather (My Dad) and Great Grandson (My Grandson Conner)

Great Grandmother (My Mom) and Great Grandson Conner

And in today already walks tomorrow. 

 ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We celebrated Christmas 2012 with the entire family on Friday 12-28-12 and I think all would agree that Mom, Dad, and Conner were the best presents that we received!

Don't Forget To Look Up

Colors play an important part of our world, so when you mix them up the outcome can be beautiful... Love blindly and selflessly. 

~ Devon Ells

A Father's Love

A glimpse into

that moment

Forever captured

a Father's Love

As many of you know - I am not a "people pictures" person.  I try - but it just hasn't "clicked" (pardon the pun) for me.  But sometimes I get lucky.

That's the way I feel about this image .... very lucky to have captured this.

Taken with my iPhone - processed in Instagram - a moment in time captured.

My Son - the brand new Dad - with His Son - Conner
 

 

A Mother's Love

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

~Agatha Christie

Baby Bluebird - Not Quite Ready to Leave

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. 
Dr. Joyce Brothers

 The baby bluebird is looking at me with quite an expression - 
and I'm sure I've seen this look on my children in the past.

Concentration

“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” ~Paul Strand

As many of you know - I don't do "People Pictures" very well. But sometimes I get lucky. This was one of the shots from the Beret Ceremony last weekend at Fort Benning, GA where my son is at OSUT Training - which combines Basic and AIT together. After this training he goes to Airborne school. I am a very proud Mama Bear!

Family Day

For the past several days I've been visiting my son who is in OSUT at Fort Benning, GA. This was the first time we had seen him since March 6th when he left. Friday was Family Day and we were able to be with him through Sunday. It was a FANTASTIC weekend!! The smiles on their faces tell how happy Brother and Sister were to be together again!

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou

Mallard Mom and Baby - Friday Feathers

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana

Defending His Family

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

~Paul Pearshall

Dear Friends.....

Another family emergency this week.
My father had to have emergency surgery to insert a pacemaker.
He was walking around and DRIVING with a heart rate of 30. NOT a good thing.
While in surgery it dropped as low as 26. We are thankful that the surgery
was a success and that he is doing well.
I have been staying with my parents for the last few days...just home
today long enough to do some laundry and get my family ready for next week.
I will be heading back over today and stay with my parent's until Friday when my
brother and sister will be continuing the care.
Once I get back I'll catch up with all of your blogs.

Remember to: Cherish every sunrise, cherish every sunset, and cherish
every moment in between.

A New Family

A Mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
~ Unknown

Wonderful Weekend - Baltimore Inner Harbor

I was in Baltimore over the weekend to celebrate my sister's birthday with 2 old family friends. We had a WONDERFUL time.

These are shots from Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

For those of you not familiar with Baltimore..... It is in the state of Maryland.... on the East Coast of the United States

Collage of Brianna

I took these shots back in August. Brianna and I set out early one Saturday in hopes of finding some interesting things to photograph. We were both taking a picture of the same flowering bush/tree, then I started "shooting" her.