Before I can write any other posts, I feel I have to finish off Katie & Kyle’s 25 cent ring story with a picture. But before that I have to share just a little story that shows what kind of a man Kyle is, & how lucky Katie is to being wearing his 25 cent...
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guest writer: the twenty five cent ring, chapter two
Katie & Kyle are getting married today! & I’m the lucky enough one who gets to share their day with them: well, me and my camera Before the ceremony starts, here’s chapter two of their engagement story…
Chapter 2: September 22, 2009
It was Katie’s birthday and we had tickets to go to a luau....
guest writer: the twenty five cent ring
Kyle & I went to high school together. More specifically, we spent at least a class a day together for all four years, which is sort of a novelty in our big high school: Agriculture Class. We sat through hours of tool identification & meat judging. Then there was soil judging & record books. I...
shannon’sNovella: funks & rabbit holes
I was in a funk. Eric, who second shot Carly & Garrett’s wedding with me in Roseberg, OR, and I stopped at McMenamin’s Edgefield, in Troutdale, OR on the trip home. Eric wanted to wander the grounds & shoot, but I was in a funk. I decided not to drag all my equipment around, instead...
Prequel: McMenamins Edgefield
McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, OR.
fotoNovella: Lavender Festival 2010
Somewhere in my childhood I developed an aversion to lavender. I connected the smell of lavender to an old woman purple cardigan & decided that lavender, psshh…too grandma-ish for me! So the lavender salts on my grandma’s vanity…uggh! The lavender room spray…yuck! & the lavender soap an ex-boyfriend gave me one Christmas…well, I did use...
Prequel: shades of Lavender
Lavender Festival at Purple Ridge Lavender in Hermiston, OR
fotoNovella: Kim & Kids
Enjoy each ride, as if it’s your last.
Riding becomes a ritual. Tugging on your worn, fit-to-foot boots you grab the halter and head to the pasture where your equine friend is nodding his head at you in welcome & stomping his foot in his anticipation of the ride. You slip the halter on and head...
prequel: as if it’s the last.
Enjoying each ride, as if it’s the last.