They met at a high school basketball game when their two schools were playing each other. He was two grades ahead of her–a junior to her freshman–but knew mutual friends as well as her older brother. They both recall noticing the other for both looks and humor (“I remember saying to my [now best man] […]

He forgot his phone. That’s how he ended up back at her house after the evening of hanging out with mutual friends who were in town. A few days after that, they went out to eat with friends and she says she wasn’t sure where it would go, but she really liked him and wanted […]

A year older and still just as athletic. The last time I hung out with this family was in their backyard playing baseball. This time, we met early on a Sunday morning and enjoyed the crisp fall air and the beauty of nature as we strolled around Lake McBride and the Raptor Center. The boys […]

I was scouting for a photography session today and stumbled into the Raptor Center at Lake McBride. I had originally been looking for some tall grassy fields (which there were plenty), but got sidetracked when I discovered butterflies and owls. Who doesn’t? Happy exploring!

She had just returned from France where she was getting hands-on practice with her foreign language studies. He was neck-deep in dental school. Neither of them were interested in a blind date. Finally, amid their mutual friend’s pleadings, they decided to meet in a group of friends, still refusing to be the subjects of a […]

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson