Journal

Here is a truth about me.  Give me just about any client, any person to photograph, and I have all the patience in the world, thoroughly enjoying the creative process.  But my family, oy vey.  I don’t just plan outfits and locations, but conjure up lists of expectations that aren’t even meant to be met, […]

We were hoping for a neighborhood parade this morning for our first Fourth of July on Lookout Mountain.  Well, thunderstorms and the mountain fog has changed our plans.  The parade is now postponed.  But I took the girls outside, who had their patriotic outfits planned and took a few photos all the same.  And then […]

This past Saturday morning we had hoped to wake up to enough snow for sledding.  That hope started the night before.  On Friday night, my husband and I watched anxiously, like the native-Californians that we are, and were even messaging a neighbor in hopes of a nighttime sledding run.   It never seemed to snow […]

Today it snowed.  A lot– for us.  At one point my 8yo both excitedly and dreamily said, “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”  Some stuck for a few hours, and just up 200 hundred feet or less at Covenant College, it snowed and stuck a bit more.  Enough that when my husband came home […]

Well, we are here, officially residing in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.  The sea of boxes has been parted to sides of just two, three remaining rooms, and dwindles daily.  K. has informed me that I’m becoming a good mountain driver, and the drive thankfully already feels a bit shorter up and down the mountain.  We might […]

A few months ago my now 8yo said she wanted to have a pioneer-themed party.  Immediately my brain started turning and flooded with ideas.  Not much more was said, the ideas trickled here and there, and it was before I was on Pinterest.  However, it seemed a mini family vacation with an amusement park visit […]