" But calm ,white calm,was born into a swan"

~Elisabeth Coatsworth

feeling anything but today

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

Bradyn and Jesse part 2

Bradyn and Jesse chose to have a "first look" moment. i LOVE that. with our rain delayed schedual , i think it was extra important to have those few private moments together. after that we had the shortest , fastest group session ever, but when your group is all so fun and beautiful, my job is easy.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself." 
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

Blythe , graduation day

prettiest recipe ever , maybe I should bake a cake to celebrate the first day of school

beet cake from tiger in a jar on Vimeo.
day of school.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so.  After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.  ~Margaret Laurence

Calder usually runs the other way when the camera comes out but after a long lazy morning on the couch the other day he actually said yes when I asked if I could take his picture.He of course is NOT so bored as to want to go back  to school however.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!  ~Author Unknown

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.  ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

          a boring friday night
          a spur of the moment photo shoot
          no expectations
          no plan

          just going out to see what would happen  

          my favourite!

Blythe

i was so sure she was going to be another boy...

couldn't believe how petite and beautiful she was.

we named her Blythe, a surname from the "Anne " books .

she is all of the spirit , determination and spunk I loved about Anne , 

our family would be so boring without her.

it is so amazing to me that she is now a young woman graduating.

"Anne " always said it is better to be smart than pretty..

my Blythe is both.