A last-minute weekend road trip to Chicago brought an opportunity to work on a few pano photos. Above: Cardinals vs. Cubs. And I’m happy to report that St. Louisans saw a winner! I’m happier to report that we witnessed Yadi smack one out and heard “Yadi! Yadi! Yadi!” chanted throughout Wrigley Field by the Cardinal invasion. It…
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San Antonio
I’ve been out of touch for a few days due to a work trip to San Antonio that brought a few adventures for me and the boys. Memphis threw a wrench into our plans to see a playoff game while in town when they got themselves swept, but it didn’t stop us from visiting the…
It’s an Easter Egg Hunt!
And for the first time in years, Tanner and I got to go! Every year our church hosts a huge Easter Egg Hunt and this year pastor asked me to take photographs. Lucky me, Tanner offered to take my backup camera and help out! It’s been so long since I’ve had little ones, I’d forgotten…
Next Stop: the Garden
After spending the morning with butterflies, mom and I headed to the Botanical Garden for the Orchid Show. Shapes, colors, sizes, patterns…no two were alike. These were not your Mother’s Day corsage. In addition to the orchids, we enjoyed lunch and a walk around the grounds. Here’s mom at the Japanese Garden, perfecting the art…
Happiness is Like a Butterfly…
…the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. (Thoreau) Or, if I may amend, on the flower above your head. Or on your pants leg. There was lots of butterfly happiness happening yesterday when…
If these hands could talk…
As we continue our newest work project, I am more and more amazed by how much a simple pair of hands (or two) can say. These hands could tell you the sweetest of love stories…a story that has not only unfolded to its final chapter, but is dwindling to its last precious, fragile pages. These hands could tell…
Hazy, Lazy Morning
So I woke up early this morning and noticed a thick haze out our windows. It looked like a dream. Fearing that the fog would soon burn off, I snagged a camera and ran out the door. I ran out the door and apparently left my brain behind. I was wearing flannel and no shoes….
Ten Thousand Hills
Parents’ Day Weekend at Tanner’s fraternity house brought a much-needed road trip this weekend. It’s so weird to see how grown up and independent my youngest child has become. Weird, but fun. Early this morning I decided to stop by a state park before heading home. Ten Thousand Hills State Park is just outside of…
Out the Window
Tonight I creeped into my neighbor’s yard to sneak some photos of her beautiful garden. (Who am I kidding. She’s used to it. She usually waves out her kitchen window.) I’m in awe of her garden not only because it’s gorgeous, but because it’s thrived in spite of having to endure the hottest, driest, most…
What was that?!
This was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. Remember that Murmuration video that went viral because it was so breathtakingly beautiful? These photos represent something I saw that was very similar, but on a much smaller scale…only these were not starlings. Nor did this take place in a remote natural setting. No, this…
Balance…and the lack thereof
Today I was tickled to find out that my office has used five of my photos (including the one above) to create new thank you cards/stationary. You know, when I started taking photos a few years ago, I didn’t have any ideas of doing anything with them…which resulted in nothing more than a small blog,…
Fall at the Farmers’ Market
Today’s run started at our little downtown Farmers’ Market — and gee whiz, it looks like The Great Pumpkin blew though here since last week! The early morning light was so perfect. I wish I would’ve had my real camera with me! But it was worth resorting to the iPhone because this was my longest run…
Perspective: Day Two
More time spent with this sweet family today. More family visitors, hugs, kisses, photos…more tears. I know we can’t do anything to change the way this story will end. However, while totally insufficient, we’ve done everything we can to make a difference. Now the best we can offer is our prayers. If I could possibly…
Perspective
Well, the work project that we started a few weeks ago took a very different path today. Again, I won’t go into details and compromise our patient’s privacy, but I’m sure you can guess from the photo that this story is a tough one. Unlike our last photo session, this is not the story of…
How I See It
If you know me very well, you know that for a couple of years now, I’ve been working very hard to improve my photos…upgrading my cameras, trying new lenses, practicing, practicing, practicing. Then tonight I found these photos* in my archives, taken at an art fair several years ago. These pre-date my blog, taken with…
Sunday Morning Run
My Sunday morning run route started and ended at our little downtown Farmer’s Market. Gourds, pumpkins, mums, temperatures in the 60s…looks like fall is heading our way. This is a new route that afforded some unexpected encouragement… …unexpected beauty and photo ops. Love these prayer flags. What a funky little route! I’ll definitely be doing…
Sisters, Soap, Sunflowers
Last day of a work road trip brought us back to the countryside for another visit with the Benedictines. Today we visited the convent, or as I like to think of it, home of the Holy Water soap. (Not the official name of their business, but the Sisters do add Holy Water to each batch.)…
Conception, Missouri
A small detour during a work road trip took me to a beautiful Benedictine monastery in the Northwest corner of the state. I’ve been here a few times before, but there’s something new to photograph every time. There’s a wonderful collection of Madonnas, the Basilica, small grottos on the grounds…it’s a peaceful, holy place. Given…
Thanks, Twitter!
Thanks to some useless trivia I discovered via twitter, I’ve dug up a couple of favorite photos in honor of World Cat Day! Many happy returns!
What a gift…
As part of a photo project for work, today I got to spend some time with a lovely elderly patient of ours. The objective of the project is to provide our patients’ families with large, framed photos of their loved one’s hands. To some, I guess this might sound strange. Not everyone has attractive hands….
Redefining Rest Stop
What better way to break up a six and a half hour drive from Madison than a stroll through Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois? What an amazingly beautiful, peaceful place. The waterfalls…the tea house…the koi ponds…it was exactly what I needed before continuing the long, monotonous drive through the endless cornfields and wind turbines…
Loving the Lantern Festival
Since its May opening, we’ve heard nothing but rave reviews about our Botanical Garden’s Lantern Festival. I’ve so wanted to go, but the descriptions of the enormity of the crowds was, to me, a little daunting. (Okay, I know we just ran The Color Run among a sea of people, but that’s different. You’re expected to…
Stalling Tactic
After an entire day of sitting in the sun and 100+ temperatures at the tennis courts watching my boy, I’m doing everything I can to put off my daily run and a trip back into the heat. So I’ve been fiddling around with a few photos I took today and it’s still topping 90 degrees…
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