The texture of moments on a winter hike

Bright winter sunlight like a pitcher of lemonade spread across the morning sky. Today was one of those days where each moment was saturated with goodness. A long nap with Bean curled in the nook of my arm, my nose pressed into the softness of his hair. Pad thai at the local noodle shop with […]

Total self-absorption (in the best way possible)

First:)
I want to do a little giddy dance and say THANK YOU a zillion times to all you exquisite people who nominated me for the BOBS best Art/Photo blog! I am blown away every single day by the generocity and encouragement and positive feedback I get from the people who come here often.
Second:)
Krystyn is […]

Finding what it takes

Running along the lake in yak tracks, the late sun on the horizon above the lake looked like someone spread apricot jam across a rent in the clouds. Snowflakes hit my face. Ice below the snow along the path was slick and see-through. The lake waves cut up onto the cold pebbles of the shore, […]

Someone said, “batten down the hatches”

Is this what they were refering to?

Bean did the standing thing several more times today for 10-15 seconds at a go. AND he started taking bold and daring risks—moving between cruising surfaces without hands, or, as pictured here, CLIMBING WILLY NILLY onto surfaces previously entirely off his radar screen. DH took this picture when […]

Noticing right now

Tonight Bean stood. STOOD. On his how two little feet. For long enough that DH could come through the door from the kitchen into my office and see him standing, not aware of his own miraculous feat—or feet! Stood long enough for us both to stare at him and gasp. Longer than any previous wobbly […]

Of green beans and vacuum love

This kid is cracking me up lately. He’s starting to be his own little person, and often puts on a silly show just for our benifit. Witness the green bean pictures. He took great joy in alternately blowing loud raspberries and then making funny sucking noises, holding the green bean in place hands free. And, […]

Say Yes

Think about all the lists that have been made in the past few days. Enough words, put back to back, to travel to the moon on. Our hope for the New Year hanging on each syllable.
For the past few days I’ve been trying to articulate what I want truly for this year. What the […]

Self Portrait Tuesday: Personal History # 1

We were camping. I was ten or eleven years old. I’m not sure where we were, but the memory I have attached to this photo is very specific. My dad and I were playing on the grass. I’d throw my body onto his feet and he’d bring me up over his head. Then I’d land, […]

A year goes quickly by

It’s New Year’s Eve, and like nearly everyone else who has lived since the time when the calendar we use today first was implemented, I find myself taking pause, making lists, and feeling a bit dumbfounded at how quickly and suddenly the year has come to completion.
This year was one of beginnings and endings […]

New Jersey landscape on the day before the last day of the year

Yesterday afternoon we walked through the fields where George Washington and his troops once faught. We watched thousands of birds fly pell mell through the sky, alighting in a swirling vortex of black wings on the stubble of mowed-under corn. We walked hand in hand with the setting sun on our faces, staring in wonder […]