Picnic at the William Harris Homestead
The other day I took my boys for a picnic at the beautiful William Harris Homestead in Monroe, Georgia. It’s something that I don’t do nearly enough. I have written before about my connection to the...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Field Trip: Edisto Island, South Carolina
I usually don’t share so many photos, but I can’t help myself. Recently I had the opportunity to take my boys to Edisto Island, South Carolina for a few days. I think vacations can be the best...
View ArticleHappy Boo Day
This column was originally printed in the October 26, 2011 edition of the Barrow Journal. Happy Halloween and Turning Forty When you’re a child, having a birthday on Halloween is a pretty cool thing....
View ArticleI Love My Boys
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~ Joseph Heller Filed under: Photography Tagged: boys, parenting, photography
View ArticleTo All My Friends…
Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Spring……! Filed under: Photography Tagged: holidays, making easter eggs, photography, spring
View ArticleThe Merry Toymaker: A Retired Toymaker’s Story and His Beautiful, Handmade...
Note: This column was printed in the April 18, 2012 edition of the The Barrow Journal. Sometimes it pays to have connections. At least, that’s what my boys thought when a friend of mine invited us...
View ArticleLet Them Play in the Mud, and They’ll Fondly Remember Their Childhoods
“You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy...
View ArticleVisiting Amelia Island, Florida
This column was printed in the Barrow Journal on May 23, 2012. To see a slideshow of photos I took while visiting Amelia Island, click here to go to my photography blog. In May I had the pleasure of...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Happy New Year! This has been a great year with so many wonderful memories. I put together this slideshow of some of the places we’ve been and our adventures in homeschooling the boys. It may be more...
View ArticleNothing Says Little Boys Like…
…this picture. A warm February Sunday spent with sticks alongside a lake. Georgia red clay underfoot. It was a good day. Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: boys, Ft. Yargo State Park, getting...
View ArticleMama of Letters’ Columbine Logo
Unfortunately, the newspaper can’t use my column this week, so I thought I’d share some photos today instead. Some of you might be interested in knowing that the flower I use in my logo is a kind of...
View ArticleThe Chicago Botanical Garden Butterfly Habitat
On our recent journey to Chicago to help my in-laws in an unfortunate circumstance, we took a couple of days to go out and do something fun. One of our favorite places is the Chicago Botanical Garden....
View ArticleHappy Birthday My Precious Four-Year-Old
Filed under: Photography Tagged: birthday, the four-year-old
View ArticleHappy Birthday To My Precious Seven-Year-Old
Filed under: Photography Tagged: birthday, seven-year-old
View ArticleFind Me Elsewhere Today
Just a short post today to tell you that I’m happily sharing more of my photography on the Mud Puddles to Meteors blog today. I’m flattered that they want to share my work! These are some of my...
View ArticleGeorgia Food Tours: Agro Cycle Tour
Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on September 24, 2014. I think these tours would be awesome for older homeschooled students who are interested in farming, food and/or bicycling....
View ArticleNature Watch: Crazy Abundance of Mushrooms
As a follow-up to my son’s mushroom project, I thought I would share what we found below our deck around a tree stump at just about the same time we were growing shiitake mushrooms. We get a lot of...
View ArticleThoughts on Photographs and the Last Ten Years
Due to several reasons, we had not been getting out for regular day hikes as much as we used to, and this made me sad. But last week we woke up, the weather was good, the time was right, and we decided...
View ArticleOctober
October is well on its way and the weather has been beautiful. I'm even starting to see a little color on the trees too. Our homeschool year is going as expected, and it's keeping me extremely...
View ArticleMay 2021
May has been a brighter month for me. Earlier in this year, when I learned we would have to prolong our isolation because the COVID vaccine was not approved for kids yet, I fell into a sad slump, which...
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