January 11, 2009

Three lady's and their dogs....

first of all the line up..from left to right...Me & Lacy...Nelle(my sis) & Cinch....Carol(my mom) & Pepper..aka...bar bitch..my mom rescued her from a bar, in northern Montana.
I love this photo, mostly because I love these people so much...oh and their creatures of comfort.

January 9, 2009

Imagination


Einstein said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

January 8, 2009

My very first interview, done by Willow Manor

1. Your photos are fabulous. How did you get your start in photography and what kind of camera do you use?
Thanks for the compliment...I was ten years old when I got my first camera, we lived in the country, so nature surrounded me. So I photographed everything from closeups of leaves to my brother and sisters. From that point I knew I was a visual artist, and my tool would be a camera. After high school, I went to art collage to study commercial photography, I tended to break a lot of rules, but I had been doing that my whole life. I have used many different styles of cameras, before digital, my favorite was a Hasselblad, which I adore, but my work horses now are Nikon's, in our new world of digital.


2. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Wow! What a question...I am only 41 years,I guess to use the gifts I was given, to make the world better, in just a small way.


3. Other than your loved ones, what is your most treasured possession?
I feel I don't posse anything, things are things....but i truly adore the gardens that surround my home, for they have been my best teachers in life.


4. Which living person do you most admire and why?
My sweet mother, for she showed me through her life, all you have to be is you.



5. Before blogging, what, if any, was your main mode of personal expression?
I have been journeying for the last twenty years, and of course through my photography, the greatest part about blogging is I get to combine my feeling, and expressions together and share creatively.




Here's the directions:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. (I get to pick the
questions).
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview
someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask
them five questions.

contentment


contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation and enjoyment for what is, right now. Desires, in contrast,can never be satisfied. Once we get what we crave, we soon find it less satisfying than we expected, so we strive for something else. The only escape from this perpetual wheel of want is to discover the contentment and perfection we already have.

January 7, 2009

Nature shows us the way...


In the winter months, there is a room upstairs that gets the western light, soft and perfect for keeping my tropics alive, and also where my bulb collection grows...slowly, for there is growth everyday, I have found that this growth has become as beautiful as the flower at the end.

January 6, 2009

stop...and experience the light

"the beautiful is everywhere: perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums."
Fernand Leger, painter

January 5, 2009

today I will share my daily reasons for true joy in my life

  • good health
  • loving relationships
  • Sydney(my sweet daughter)
  • to be intouch with nature
  • the support of my family
  • a satisfying career
  • an adequate income when many people have none
  • Change- to keep me in check with my mind and soul
  • a warm and secure place to live
  • the comfort and loyalty of pets
  • good neighbors
  • freedom- truly to be of my true nature, inward and out.

January 4, 2009

working on my lovely list of creative ventures for the month of January....OK to be honest I am still finishing up jobs from last week...I tell myself when the bread & butter is done than I get to channel my self to whimsical creative conscience....no worries, no fear, no pain, just that bliss state that allows me to just be... to all my creative humans...may you find time to just be...

January 2, 2009

holiday wedding ...




this was the wedding I shot in Red Lodge a couple weeks ago and it was -7 degrees ... it was quite beautiful and the kids were troopers...they only stayed out a couple seconds to get some frames of the whole family.

January 1, 2009

welcome to the new year....



"a mode of conduct,
a standard of courage,
discipline, fortitude, and
integrity can do a great
deal to make a women
beautiful."