Admittedly not my best photography – these are cellphone photos (I sent my camera with Daughter Trinidad to Hawaii – she’s currently on a trip there with her high school marching band) – but I thought I would share the difference here between yesterday afternoon and pre-dawn today.
This morning – by daybreak there was 4 inches of snow on the ground
Poor Trin – she’s been wishing for snow for weeks!
Inspired by Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Colors of Red and White
Waiting for the school buses on a snowy morning in rural central Oklahoma:
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire
While it may be winter now, these photos were taken last June on the coldest summer day on record in Oklahoma
Some of my favorite photos from 2012, uploaded to this blog but not necessarily published :
For the weekly photo challenge: Delicate
This year there are two flutists in my family (as well as two teenagers) and sometimes our schedule doesn’t afford time for separate practice. In order for Trinidad and Rane to practice separate pieces of music simultaneously, each girl must use a gentle breath and delicate fingering.
Trinidad practices style while Rane practices form – there is a mirror to the right
Trinidad plays in her high school marching band and orchestra
Rane plays in her middle school orchestra
Many thanks to Gilliam Music and Norman Public Schools for their assistance in providing flutes for these girls to play 🙂
It seems like just yesterday Zack was dressed up and ready to go Trick-or-Treating
Zack and his best friend on and off-ice ham it up at school trick-or-treat
Last year, Zack helped hang Christmas decorations at the skating rink (you can see Eva practising, right under Zack’s arm)
Coach Carmon and Eva work together at the far end of the rink while Zack works in the foreground
This year, all of a sudden, both Halloween and Thanksgiving have passed and it’s Christmas-time again
Something is going to have to be moved to make room for this!
Milo sleeps unaware his favorite napping place is soon to be moved
the love cats 🙂
Zack explains to Milo and Otis why they must move – Zack is going to move my desk to make room for our Christmas tree
Zack moved my desk into the back room…where the chalkboard wall remains from times – seasons – past…and a few cobwebs from Halloween 🙂
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After I strung the lights, the children decorated the tree and hung the stockings
I wish for everyone, that all change is for the better!
It’s always the season for love!
The pumpkins sitting on my desk this year will produce the pumpkins sitting on my desk next year.
related post: shadows and dreams
A typical Oklahoma thunderstorm moves over my home from the west.
Every once in a while, it turns out to be a good thing when I hear “Mom! Come here quick!”
My husband found a patch of cactus in the woods behind our home last evening. He told our children, “Grandma was here,” meaning she had planted the cactus when she lived on our property years ago. She now lives in town, and my husband has been working to restore our land to the pristine condition it was in when he was a boy. My young son loves cactus, and has been asking me to plant cactus seeds,so the discovery of this patch was a pleasant surprise in more ways than one.
Through the years we have had many creatures come to our property – goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, to name a few. Our most recent visitors were much smaller than usual; we have had the pleasure of briefly getting to know a caterpillar, a snail, and a very brave moth.
I discovered this little guy in my washing machine – he survived an entire wash cycle
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