On Tuesday morning I usually drop of Mr. TOF at preschool and go for a longer walk.  Tuesday morning is my walking morning because Wednesday morning I go to the university for my cello lesson (and try to look smart while rolling a cello case behind me across the campus…

This is what you get when you nicely ask all of your kidlets to take one quick picture with their beautiful grandmother, and no one cooperates except for maybe your husband.  Oh well.  I still love these images. 

On our way home from Applefest we stopped at my one of my very favorite sand beaches, Meyers Beach, to watch the sun go down.  Glorious. 

Apples on a stick!  Applefest was actually over a week ago, but all of last week was incredibly insane, and I didn’t post anything here for days.  It’s time to catch up a bit.  We were super blessed that Grandma Kathy came to stay at our house, and she was…

The leaves have begun their turn toward radiant hues of orange, yellow and red.  Autumn is my favorite time of year, and although it is a bit slower to come this year, I had an amazing drive on Saturday morning to photograph a client who lives up and away from…

  After the mud obstacle course on Sunday, some kids elected to go to the beach for a few minutes, and some elected to stay home and do some additional showering before practicing their instruments and squaring away any unfinished homework.  The sun mostly hid behind a large shelf of…

If a child “spills” a bottle of wart remover (salicylic acid) on the seat of your van, it will eat through the leather. The residue will turn white and crusty and will not scrape off no matter what tools you might conceive of using.   It turns out leather is,…

  It was a somewhat spontaneous decision on our part to show up for the Dirt Yard Dash, which is put on by the church  where our neighbor at the top of the hill works.  For the last several years, this church, which sits on a plot of forest and…

Tis the season for applesauce!  This year I made quite a lot of applesauce from the tiny apples on our crab apple tree.  Crab apple sauce is not for everyone.  In fact, most people in our family have rejected it at this point, but I love it!  It packs a…