Happy Monday!

I took these pictures the other morning on my way to work. (Yes, at this job I have to wake up early enough to see the sun rise – ha!) I had the curtains closed so I didn’t notice the pink cast of the sky until I opened the front door. Of course, I went [...]

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Quote of the Day

~ * ~     ~ * ~ I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. – Vincent Van Gogh   ______________________________________  

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Quote of the Day

~ * ~ ~ * ~ We want things to be easy for our children, and we know from sad experience that the world can be unkind to girls who do not please, who speak out, who go their own way. But we know from experience, too, that the role of the good girl can [...]

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Friendship

“There is a kind of quilt called a friendship quilt, but I imagine all of mine, no matter what their pattern, are emblems of female friendship, that essential thread that has so often kept the pieces of my own life together, and from time to time kept me from falling apart.” – Anna Quindlen ______________________________________

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Happy

Remember this little cutie? I finally finished going through all four hundred of the photographs that I took of her and her mama! A.J. stopped by the office to say hello today, so I promised I would have the completed by the time she got here. After viewing all of these images, I decided I [...]

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Storm Season Is Officially Here

Well, storm season in Florida has officially begun! I took this photograph off my back deck. Remember this?  I’m getting much better at my lightning photography skills, if I do say so myself!  At first, I wound up taking forty thousand photographs because, um, it’s hard to predict lightning. It would be much more convenient [...]

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Quote of the Day

~ * ~ ~ * ~ Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs ____________________________________

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Insta-Lesson in Lightning Photography

This afternoon, while on the way to the grocery story with my friend Wendy, Miami was hit with a thundering downpour of rain. I mean, rain rain. This kind of rain.  Walking around in that kind of rain is sort of like being sprayed with a hose. From atop a tall building.  It’s actually kind [...]

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Quote of the Day

~ * ~ ~ * ~ “It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” – Deepak Chopra ~ * ~ Note: this is the daughter of one of the girls in our program. Isn’t she adorable? I told her I would take some family portraits of the two of them this weekend – [...]

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Sunset at South Pointe Park

I took the following photographs a few weeks ago while at South Pointe Park.  Below, you can see that the park wraps around the southern-most tip of the island.  On the far eastern tip, and all along the eastern side, is “the beach.”  The Atlantic Ocean stretches all the way up the side (obviously), and [...]

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