359/365 quote Friday on a joyous day!

the

best of

all gifts

around any

christmas tree

is the presence of

a happy family all

wrapped up in each

other.

—Burton Hi l l is

352/365 quote Friday

“I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry” ~ John Cage

just pictures tonight:

Matt and Shelby all dressed up

~ my new (and very red) colour

345/365 quote Friday

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Soon the bells will start

And the thing that will make them ring

Is the carol that you sing

Right within your heart"

~ Meredith Wilson

338/365 quote Friday

"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel."

~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider,

Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992

another winter storm today

and the above picture is of my car

STUCK

in the snow

and I mean stuck as in

all the back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

was not going to help me

and you may be asking

oh my, where did this happen?

downtown, worse yet,

on deerfoot?

oh no,

after a 45 minute, hands at 10 and 2,

say a little prayer type of drive

I get stuck in...

my driveway.

How truly ironic

that I drove through some of the worse roads

I have seen in a long time

and I end up having to get dug

out of my own driveway.

I really need to figure out one of these days

why I live here in the winter.

331/365 quote Friday...

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

~ Carl Reiner

at least someone in this family found

something good about the snow

a clean canvas for his art.

my opinion... no thanks I will pass

the first snowfall of winter and

a very long, icy drive home

I can live without it

and would like to live in a place

where this is not an option.

324/365 quote Friday

"The point of living is to believe the best is yet to come".

—Peter Ustinov

317/365 quote Friday

"and they call it puppy love

oh i guess they'll never know

how a young heart really feels"

~ Paul Anka

seriously a cute little couple

you may recognize Miss Avery from her recent family session

and Sammers of course has been my photo muse since day 1.

310/365 quote Friday

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

John Constable (1776 - 1837)

303/365 Quote Friday

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

~ Mark Twain

I thought this was a humorous quote for what is an anxious time for many of us.

As I have been making sure Kaeden gets as much Vitamin C as possible, oranges have become his constant snack and I thought they made for a fresh looking picture.

I have always been a believer of not over cleaning, sterilizing, vaccinating and letting my body fight illness the way is designed too with extra doses of Vitamin C and a multi vitamin. This has worked well for me, other than a few colds, I have been fortunate to stay healthy. However, this H1N1 is scary, especially for Kaeden and my young nephews. I am starting to change my tune and after the high risk individuals have a chance to get the vaccination and the supply evens out, I think we will head in to get our shot. I am hoping that this pandemic is the "real" thing and that we will not have one for another 20-30 years as I really do not want to get into the habit of flu hysteria every winter.

296/365 Quote Friday

"I guess your smile is the sun's way

Of lighting up what's dark

So shine, shine, shine for me baby

It only takes a spark"

~ Matt Wertz

289/365 quote Friday

“Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world”

-Bette Midler

282/365 quote friday

"everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it"

~ Confucius

I was checking out an apartment complex by my house this morning (for work, its a long story and really not that interesting so we will move on), as I pulled into the parking lot it struck me that there was an awfully large amount of ice on the roadway and the trees (grass, parking signs, walls - you name it, it was covered in ice). Now it has been cold but this was like something out of a movie. Of course, in my line of work my first thought should have been the liability exposure or the fact there could be a water main break but instead all I saw was the beauty and was so tempted to go back home to get my camera but instead I waited and went back tonight - I may try to go back in the morning as it would be interesting to see how it would look different in the sunlight.

I love this next picture, each blade of glass was individually coated in ice so it looked like a blanket of crystals.

~ Scott said this was caused by the sprinkler system going off combined with our blowing wind and frigid temperatures over the last few days.

275/365 quote Friday

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

~ Leonardo da Vinci

268/365 Quote Friday

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

- Ansel Adams

261/365 Quote Friday and a little more Dr.Suess

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."

— Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

We are trying to advance from BLAH, BLAH, BLAH to actual reading. He is quite funny as he is such a speed reader in his "get er done" mode that he just whips through the pages and instead of slowing down to sound out the word, he'll just make up his own words which(sometimes) match the story and is highly entertaining but that skill may not get him through grade one so we will continue to work on it.
a Kaeden story

Scenario: walking home from the park (last Sunday) my mom, Keegan (almost 4 yrs old) and Kaeden and they are talking about school

Kaeden: (to Keegan) What grade are you in?

Keegan: Kindergarten (he is actually in preschool)

Kaeden: (in a very wistful voice) good times....good times

240/365 Quote Friday

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

~Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

233/365 Quote Friday (August 21st)

a cute quote from a poster I found in a Snowboarder/Wakeboard/Skate shop in Fernie:

Teamness

Working together to achieve a common stupid.

226/365 Quote Friday (August 14th)

“Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.”     ~Benjamin Franklin

219/365 quote Friday

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

~ Aaron Siskind 

212/365 quote Friday

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke