Behind the Camera: Dreaming of Neverland

The girlies were in bed asleep by 7pm tonight dreaming of fairies and sparrow men. Late night at Papa’s last night! They spent the night with their granddaddy and Ms. Kat who let them stay up until 10pm. I guess that’s what granddaddies are for, huh? Did you know that male fairies are called sparrow men? We learned that in our fairy book tonight, a beautifully detailed book called In the Realm of the Never Fairies: The Secret World of Pixie Hollow. I highly recommend it if you have little girls in your life who love fairies!

I spent the day at the Riverside Arts Market today. Great day, a little warm, but at least a little breezy and being under the bridge really does wonders with the shade. Set up was a bit hectic, even with DH’s help, since we left my stabilizer bars at home….a must have when I’m hanging photos so DH had to make the trek back to the house. But all in all, it was worth the trip and I had a fairly good day. I have three more Saturdays in June and then I’ll be done for the summer. Just too hot in July and August and I’m ready to have my Saturdays back! I hope you had a lovely day out there in blogland.

Behind the Camera: The Eyes of Time

“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.” Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: Generations.

While we were down at the lake in Keystone this weekend, I snuck away for a little bit to go to a fun little artist co-op and antique store in Melrose and stumbled across this awesome sign. I need your opinion! Initially, I was drawn to the very cool glasses at the top of the clock so I wanted to capture the whole sign. Then as I was cleaning it up and adding some fun layers, I cropped it to square to capture just the clock face and like that too. Now I don’t know which one I like better? Should I list the vertical, the square or both? Which is your favorite?

Sunday Postcard Art: Numbers

I discovered the Sunday Postcard Art blog in Artful Blogger and thought, what a great thing for the girls and I to do together! Hopefully, we’ll start participating every Sunday. To participate, you have to create a postcard-sized piece of art (4” x 6”) around an assigned theme. This week’s theme was Numbers. As usual, I like the girls’ art better that mine! I love how they create with no hesitation… Top to bottom: Sarah, Kelly, Olivia.

We wrote on the backs of these and are mailing them to ourselves to get the full "postcard" effect!

Salute to Old Glory and Those Who Keep Her Free

This weekend has been a bittersweet one for me. For the past 29 years, my family has spent Memorial Day week and weekend in Boca Grande. Last year, since the girls started big girl school, we weren’t able to go Memorial Day but still made it down there for a week in June after the girls got out of school. This year, our Boca Grande vacation is currently sitting in our living room in the form of a new Pottery Barn sectional we purchased as part of our great room redo. Oh, the sacrifices for stylish décor! :-) We’re taking a quick vacation over to St. George Island in a few weeks instead. This weekend we went down to the lake in Keystone and hung with the cousins. I caught this picture Sunday afternoon…old glory combined with a bare-footed laid back afternoon on the porch. I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Leaving Fingerprints and Making Memories

“It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear.” Dorothy Evslin

Isn’t that such a lovely quote? And so true. I stumbled across it on a friend’s Facebook page. The girls and I created some memories yesterday afternoon, the fun side to a flooded backyard. I was this close (holding up fingers an inch apart) to jumping in with them, jeans and all, and then decided I’d stick to camera in hand.

When Mom, Kim and I first moved to the Jacksonville area, we lived in the Spring Creek apartments, 1909 Wells Road, Apt 212. Funny how some addresses stick with you. That complex is now the Target and Home Depot on the corner of Wells and Blanding in Orange Park across from the mall. It was probably bull-dozed because it constantly flooded, but for us kids, that’s where the fun came in! When it rained, the playground became skim-board central, and those times were in jeans and all. All the kids from the complex would come out in full force, and we’d have a blast...dirty, muddy, and drenched...but those are the moments you remember.

I hope the girls remember these... I think the purchase of a skim board is in order. ;-) If you’d like to see the rest of these pictures, you can view them here. I got some great shots!