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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...

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The 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...

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Happy 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....

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I Love My Boys

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~ Joseph Heller Filed under: Photography Tagged: boys, parenting, photography

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To All My Friends…

Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Spring……! Filed under: Photography Tagged: holidays, making easter eggs, photography, spring

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The 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...

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Let 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...

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Visiting 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...

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Happy 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...

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Nothing 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...

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Mama 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...

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The 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....

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Happy Birthday My Precious Four-Year-Old

  Filed under: Photography Tagged: birthday, the four-year-old

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Happy Birthday To My Precious Seven-Year-Old

Filed under: Photography Tagged: birthday, seven-year-old

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Find 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...

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Georgia 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....

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Nature 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...

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Thoughts 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...

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October

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...

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May 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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