Photography

Sunset Lantana

I don’t buy annual flowers if I can help it; I really prefer perrenials that I can plant and forget. My mom likes her showy annuals, and she gets a bunch of them every single year. These Sunset Lantanas are always pretty, and I love how they have multiple different colors in the same bloom. [...]

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Super Grace (or How I Told Grace a Bedtime Story)

Sometimes, I sit down to write my Works for me Wednesday post, and I think, “That’s too pedestrian to write about.” But usually, I write about it anyway, and I hope that it helps somebody. Or at least gives you a laugh. This is one of those posts. Grace was exhausted tonight. She was so [...]

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Monarch Caterpillars

I mentioned yesterday that I took pictures in my mom and dad’s yard while they played with Gracie. While I gazed at the flowers and the bees sitting in them, my mom said, “Oh, hey! Did you see my caterpillars?” I don’t know how I missed them. I was surprised to see three big, fat [...]

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Two Flowers

I have been a photographing fool in the days since BlogHer. This week was the very first week of school, and Grace and I stopped by to visit Grandma and Pappy a few times on the way home from school. One day, while Grace was busy harassing playing with my parents, I snuck around the [...]

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My Flower Pictures

Before I was married, I had very large pictures of flowers adorning the walls in my living room. I had cut them out of a calendar and framed them. I thought they were exquisite. The only other photos in the living room were 8x10s of my cats, which I also found exquisite. When I got [...]

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Positive Parenting Webinar: The Art of Consequences

Positive Parenting I just posted a full review of the Positive Parenting course at Feels Like Home Recommends. You should jump over there and read it before going on. The gist is this: Parenting a 2-year-old had me a bit frazzled. I felt inept, and I didn’t know how to manage her behavior. Of course, [...]

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Beautiful flowers

Click through to see some of my favorite flower photos. I took them all myself.

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Sightseeing… at home

This past weekend, my sister’s dear friend from college came to Harrisburg for a visit. She wanted to see a few of our favorite local sights. Not wanted to be left out, Gracie and I tagged along and did some sightseeing in our town. I highly recommend it. We spent Saturday in Hershey, where street [...]

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I’m So Proud of Myself

I have been trying forever to convince my point and shoot digital camera to take the kind of pictures that I want. I love pictures where the subject is in focus and the background is soft and blurred. I think the subject stands out so much, and the whole picture has a professional feel to [...]

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Birthday Buddies

This story begins long before these babies were born. This photo is my Gracie with her Birthday Buddy, Kostyn. Kostyn’s mom, Robyn, and I “met” on an online bulletin board for women pregnant with their first child. We were due around the same time, and we went to the same college. What’s more, Robyn was [...]