Besides Photography……

In case any of you are thinking that photography (and blogging) is all I do; this photograph, which my wife captured, shows me otherwise occupied.

In my spare time, between photography and fishing, I typically spend sixty+ hours a week working and commuting. I normally help with cooking dinner and nearly always wash the dishes while my sweet wife dries and puts them away. I also have the seasonal maintenance of our home, lawn and 2+ acre lot, the occasional farm chores along with Honey-Do projects such as pictured above.

Sometimes I wonder how I find time for work :)

Late Winter Snow

Snow was late coming this year but with spring only two weeks
away it seems as if it cannot stop

I am looking forward to the daffodils blooming
But I can’t find them for snow!

Unique Greetings

My wife feels that sending cards is her ministry. Get-Well, Sympathy, Birthday, Anniversary, Thinking of You, and Encouragement are created and sent on nearly a daily basis. Of course with Christmas in the offing, her card shop is in overdrive producing Christmas cards with our personal touch.

We use Greeting Card Factory Deluxe by Nova Development along with our photographs to create unique cards. Our Christmas card features a country church surrounded by snow with wreaths hanging on the doors. I captured this image last year following an early snowfall.

This church is special to us as six generations of my family have attended worship here and the cemetery holds members from four of those generations.

Our Life in Pictures

While I love to capture the moment, my wife’s passion is to organize and preserve it. Her driving passion is scrapbooking. We review my digital photo files regularly and pick which photos make the grade to be included in her record of our lives. Along with the photos she writes notes telling our life’s story, the good and the bad, so that we can look back and reflect.

Her ultimate goal is to create a record that future generations can page through and come to an understanding of who we were.