We got our first real snowfall of the winter last week. While we got 4 or 5 inches overnight, the ground was still warm enough that the street were not bad at all. I got up a little too late to drive the area and look for some rural photo opportunities so this tree in my neighbors yard will have to do. The school district did declare a snow day so I did drive around the neighborhood and find a few snowmen created by the families. This one is my favorite because it is soooo traditional.
Monday’s Music Moves Me
This week at 4M is a freedom of choice week. Since the recent loss of two rock icons, Jeff Beck and David Crosby, it only seems fitting to pay tribute to the men whose music was a part of my youth and young adulthood.
David Crosby is best know as a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash. For live performances Neil Young would join the group and it would become Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Here are a couple of flashbacks from these two super-groups. Have a blessed week.
The oldest granddaugher and first grandchild arrived in March1996. This image is from June 1997. She has always been the most social of the grandcrew. As a little one, she was a party going someplace to happen.
She has always loved being outside and was the first to fall in love with fishing. That fish on the end of her line is the one that got her hooked on the sport.
Katelyn grew up playing soccer. One year she decided she wanted to be a cheerleader for one of the little league football teams. While standing on the sidelines during one game, she turned and asked her mother, “Is is all we do?”. She had determined that she was on the wrong side of the white lines and if you weren’t in the game, well, you weren’t in the game! She got back into soccer and played until her junior year in high school. Her ankles began to give her trouble and surgery was going to be the only fix, so the family opted out of the sport.
The lake has always been a special place for this grandchild. She loves being on the water.
This is an image I captured for her senior photo shoot. It is one of my favorites.
Yes, she was one of the happiest brides I have ever seen.
And the story continues.
Monday’s Music Moves Me
A couple of weeks ago I featured the accapella group VoicePlay. Today I am going to feature another group in this vocal genre. Home Free is a great group with a great sound. Not only to they have a world class bass, they have a beat boxer that is unrivaled. Here we go.
After twelve years without a pet in the house, we brought Lucy home in March 2017 and life has never been the same. She was 10 weeks old and weighed about 5lbs. Lucy was born December 24, 2016, Here is her baby picture.
Yes, she was a little pup, probably the smallest in her litter. She was the last one taken, but definitely proof that sometimes the best things come in small packages. That is my computer keyboard she is laying next to on my desk.
Not long after we brought Lucy home we went shopping for a few things. My wife just couldn’t resist trying a few hats on Lucy and Lucy was not thrilled with the idea.
Lucy is an American Cocker Spaniel. Originally there were three types of hunting dogs, pointers, flushers, and retrievers. Spaniels generally fall into the flusher category. They were bred to flush woodcocks (Cocker), quail, and other game birds that hide in the grass and under brush. Even as a pup, shown here at about three months, Lucy has always enjoyed a game of fetch.
Who said, “Dogs don’t smile”? This looks like a smile to me!
Like I said in my last post, this may be a year filled with photographic retrospect. I have spent a lot of time photographing trees, flowers, birds, sports and hot rods, but I do have an archive of family and pet photos that you have probably not seen and I have not viewed since I captured the images. All of the above images were taken before Lucy was nine months old so you will most likely see her featured again and again. Have a blessed week.
Monday’s Music Moves Me
The theme this week is Time. Song lyrics or titles mentioning time, or calendars, or days of the week. Kudos to Alana for offering the first music prompt for the new year! As a teen of the sixties I was exposed to some the the greatest rock music ever recorded. We had the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eagles, The Who, Greatful Dead, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton (Cream), Since the theme this week is time, the question is, “What about No Time”?
What would you do if you could capture time in a bottle?
Soo…what are you doing Tuesday afternoon?
I gotta put this post to bed, ’cause in getting late in the evening.
Hope last week was a good start to the new year for you. Have a blessed Monday!
Welcome to 2023. For many, we can only hope it will be better than 2022.
For our family 2022 was a year of adjustments. Our grandson graduated from high school and that made our daughter and her husband “empty nesters.” For me personally the adjustment has been in the lack of family photographic opportunities. Six years ago we were watching dance competitions, baseball games, track meets and soccer matches. We still had three grandchildren in high school and junior high, so there were multiple opportunities to pick up the camera and record an event involving the family. Now, family photography is pretty much limited to birthdays, vacations, and holidays.
Everyone’s schedule is making more difficult to get the whole crew in the same place at the same time. Life goes on. I have decided to feature a few photos from days gone bye (in no particular order) and it will probably become a recurring theme this year. These posts will allow me to reflect on events that have special meaning to our family and post photos that bring a smile to my heart.
The first event centers around our middle grand daughter. While the world was worried about computers crashing, losing data, and the planet sinking into general chaos, Y2K brought us our second grandchild, dancer and future sports trainer. She is currently in her second semester of graduate school, studying sports therapy.
She has always loved helping Nana in the kitchen baking cookies and other goodies for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
This photograph is one of my favorites of Emily. She was a sophomore in high school in 2016. We went to the studio where she took dance and when I snapped this image in natural light, I new I had a winner. Sure enough, the image captured first place in the Tulsa State Fair for portrait.
These two still have a special relationship in the kitchen.
Monday’s Music Moves Me
The new year starts with a no theme/free choice week at 4M. This past year I came across a couple of accapella groups and I am going to feature one of them today. The group is Voice Play. They were contestants on the show “The Sing Off” several years ago. I never saw an episode of that show so the group was new-to-me earlier this year. Turn up the volume, put on your headphones and give a listen to Voice Play.
The bass singer is a uniquely talented individual. He has in excess of a four octave range, he is incredibly creative and has arranged, produced and and sang all parts to his own videos. Geoff Castalucci is one in a million.
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