Thursday, August 18, 2011

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

{Pretty}

Evening light filtered through Japanese Maple tree in the back yard.


{Happy}

The delight in the face of my son as he watched a dragonfly dance overhead.


{Funny}

Sometimes a bucket makes for a nice hat.



{Real}

The reality of not getting my boys to cooperate and sit still long enough for me to take a picture and having them both looking into the camera and smiling, not such an easy thing to do.




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8 comments:

  1. Looking at your pretty photo makes me think the volunteer in the garden is a Japanese Maple seedling. Beautiful!

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  2. Great pictures! Sometimes buckets really do make great hats :)

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  3. so cute. I have sent out many a Christmas card with crazy pictures of kids not holding still! My friends without children never "got it" until they had at least 2 of their own!

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  4. Buckets do make the best hats! I really love your photos.

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  5. Love the look on your son's face as he watches the dragon fly! I also really liked that last picture of both children turning away as you tried to take a picture. I have a shoebox full of photos like that!

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  6. Personally, I think the collage of trying to get the boys' attention is much better than a straight on posed shot!

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  7. I agree. This is Christmas card material. Enjoy your summer with these guys (what's left of it!).

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  8. I love these phfr posts...beautiful photos. I am a fan of the Japanese maple. We put one in when we redid our back landscaping. I had the most gorgeous tree in my first NJ house, some 20 years ago. We took a Christmas card photo in front of it and I'm going to dig that out and put it on my blog I think.

    Enjoy your day!

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