O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.  For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!  America! America! God shed His grace on thee.  And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! Only a few minutes later, I got this one with the sunset.

I have blogged many times about Uzbekistan.  It is a place that is wrapped in my heart.  I look back at my time there with sadness, happiness, longing, and hope.  I’ll love that country forever. When I was a senior in high school, I ran across this writing by Christopher Morley.  It was so inspirational […]

I can’t believe how much my tree has changed from April until now.  In April, it had a few buds on it, but now it’s in full bloom, green and gorgeous!  I love it!

It was a perfectly windy day for kiting!  Thank you, Hench family, for allowing me into a piece of your lives to capture your smiles.

This beautiful family is expecting their third child soon.  What better way to celebrate than by taking family pictures?  They turned out perfect and I had so much fun taking them!  The kids were so well-behaved and everyone went right along with my crazy ideas to tramp through the brush to get to some flowers […]

I had the loveliest brunch today with two close friends.  As we sat around talking, the subject of insurance came up and it was decided that I would blog this afternoon because steam was practically coming out of my ears about this whole insurance thing.  So here goes… I have health insurance.  I pay for […]