Here’s to the Horses | Wyoming Lifestyle Blogger and Photographer
I heard of the passing of an old friend today. Her name was Sister, and she was one of the childhood horses of one of my childhood best friends. As I read…
Goshen County Photographer: Out of the Soup and Into the Wind
What can being a photographer in Yoder, Wyoming, teach me? Plenty. One of the most amazing things in nature to me is the metamorphoses of a caterpillar into a butterfly. It is…
Raised in a Barn: 5 Life Lessons from Showing Livestock and Horses
I spent three days documenting the Wyoming State Fair as a photographer this summer. Three days of beef shows, barn scenes and family dynamics. It made me nostalgic for my own fair…
Country Lifestyle Blog: Philosophy and a Sub Sandwich
The kiddo talked me into lunch at Jimmy John’s today in a neighboring town. As we waited for our sandwiches, my eyes took in the funny signs and slogans on the wall. …
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Photography – It’s Like Coming Home
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it This brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here it’s like I’m someone else, I thought that maybe I could find…
Grab Your Umbrellas
I am constantly humbled by my child. After a few days of thunderstorms and clouds and rain, I was grumbling about the weather as we set off to see the new pheasant…
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Extraordinary Everyday
“Mama, help me dig a moat please?” Nudging the dog aside, I sat down on the sand and started digging. As I worked the Minnie Mouse trowel through the March earth, Wyokiddo…
The Capacity to Love
One year ago today, we brought Ziggy into our family. What we wanted was a herding dog to help Outdoor Guy with the pheasants. What we got was a herding dog and…
Holy Mole!
When the weather outside turns frightful, our garage begins to look delightful to the wee-est of wildlife around here. A few days ago, Outdoor Guy caught a young mole in a mouse…
It’s Not Where You Come From – Antonio and Mia Vigil Wedding – Torrington, Wyoming
With each wedding I photograph, I have one image that I take that is etched in my mind that sums up the day for me. And it’s usually not a moment, an…
Little Drops
“Little drops of water wear down big stones.” Russian Proverb Water drops shot in macro.
Take Me Back to Yesterday Once More
“Victory is better when you earn it.” This morning, Wyokiddo and I sat at the kitchen table and colored Thanksgiving pictures while we chair danced to some Bengals, Justin Timberlake and…
The Moments In-Between
When we choose what prints to hang on the wall, we usually go for the beautiful family shot where everyone is looking at the camera and smiling. Those are the ones we…
The Camera Lies
The camera lies. How we look in an image depends on so many things…the angle the photograph was taken, the light in the scene, the lens the photographer uses. There are subtle…
Gratitude and Attitude
A pheasant pooped on my head today. I was helping my husband load pheasants onto the stocking truck when a rooster got away and flew off, pooping all over me in…
Wyoming Blogger Life – What’s In Your Basket
In rural areas of Wyoming, finding fresh reasonably priced produce can be a challenge. In lieu of spending $9 on a pound of asparagus, I turned to a thing called Bountiful Baskets….
The “Grounded” Gourmet
The last month of my life has been dedicated to moving. Sorting. Packing. Changing our Address. Cleaning the old house. Unpacking. Organizing the new house. I am tired of boxes. So tired…