Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road, and the tired December sun has given up its fight to burn through the cloud cover. The dreariness of the day makes the sky almost indistinguishable from the snow covered fields were it not for the trees along the fence line. From a distance, everything has […]
Every Day is WDsD
My Facebook feed has been blowing up over the past 24 hours with all kinds of videos, images and well wishes from our community. It started last night with a video from a family that has been walking alongside us – then a text message from the principal of Julia’s school telling all of the […]
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road; and like a large part of the Midwest, we’re experiencing an unexpected heat wave. With the last several days of unseasonable warmth, I’m pretty sure the newly planted wheat crop doesn’t know what to do. After a blustery night of rain, the clouds broke and the […]
Changing the Face – Changing Our Attitudes
Jocelyn bought Julia a new t-shirt early last month, and we are hoping to be a part of a movement that is happening. As you may know by now, our daughter has Down syndrome; and this little girl has really opened our eyes, not only to the number of differently-abled people there are in this […]
Tallulah
I happened to see some friends at the park yesterday and their daughter, Tallulah. For obvious reasons (if you look at the images), I was absolutely transfixed by her eyes. Her parents were kind enough to let me pull out my camera for an impromptu photo shoot. What followed was one of the most satisfying […]
Jodi & Alex
My friends Jodi and Alex are expecting an addition to their family in the next couple of months. In the crush of all the preparations, Jodi realized that the “bump” pics hadn’t been done. I got a message over Facebook asking for help. Within a week, we were turning their living room into a studio […]
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road. We’ve had some unseasonably warm weather here over the last few days with a lot of rain and mist on the fields – fallow except for those planted with winter wheat. We saw our neighbor Jim Laramie earlier, who stopped by with the most amazing homemade […]
Pat & Cooper
Pat is a man that I have admired for a long time. Having come out of great personal adversity, he has learned a new trade and turned his life around. Most of the energy for such a transformation has come from his love for his son, Cooper. Pat contacted me a couple of months ago and […]
Candace
Candace is a longtime friend, fellow artist and encourager who decided to treat herself to a portrait sitting. She is finishing her first novel and one of these shots may end up on her book jacket. As stylish and comfortable in front of the camera as she is, it was a challenge culling from the […]
The Coon Family on the Farm
I have some dear friends that have been and incredible encouragement to our family – one of which is an incredibly talented photographer. As is the case with a lot of families, geography has made it tough to get together regularly and they wanted to capture it. Since she needed to be in the pictures, […]