To Become

Here is a new piece I started on today in photoshop. I think I like where it's going altho it's not close to being done yet.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~ Don Quixote

The Heart of the Matter

I went out today in the drizzle to get some photos of these beautiful wildflowers growing in an empty lot by my house. I stayed out for over an hour and shot 84 pictures of the same flowers over and over. A little obsessive, I know. I had my iPod, tho, and listened to one of my new favorites - A Fine Frenzy - check her out if you can.


Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
~ Annie Leibovitz

Friends

I had the wonderful chance to meet a friend for breakfast this morning. This isn't just any friend. She is one of my first internet friends. I met her online many years ago when we both had small children and were homeschooling. I haven't seen her in three years so it was such a joy to get together. It is amazing to me how small the internet has made my world. I have gotten the chance to get to know some very special people that never would have happened without the world wide web. I think as an introvert having an online community has been a real lifesaver. Julie is a very special person and I am privileged to count her as a friend.

We can learn much about other people on the Internet. And, too, much about ourselves.
~ Paulus

Etsy Store

I just changed around my etsy store a little bit. I switched the banner across the top, edited my profile, and changed my avatar. Here's the new banner:



Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi

Easter Morning

I took an early morning walk on Easter and these are a couple of the shots I took.


A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde

Family

I got to spend the day with my family this Easter. It was a good day. The hardest part was saying goodbye to my niece who leaves for army boot camp on the first of April.

This is a traditional picture we try to take every year. E and his cousin who are only three months apart have gotten this photo taken every year since they were about two.

This was my favorite photo of the day.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
~ Jane Howard

Blue on Yellow

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
~ Vincent Van Gogh