Cowkids

Waiting

Fry Family Portraits

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H

Lacy Leaf

Summer Grasses

" I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."

~Violette Leduc

Time Enough

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Living Seed

You know those white pollen seeds that float out of the trees in the middle of summer, looking for a place to land and sprout? Deep in the mountain forests of West Virginia, we discovered that some of those tiny fluffy floaters were actually living creatures! Amazing.

Dragonfly

Deep in the sun-searched growths

the dragonfly

Hangs like a blue thread

loosened from the sky.

::Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

Impossibility

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

Engagement

Debbie & Greg
Wedding Date: June, 2009

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Heart Dance

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~Author Unknown

Fresh Picked

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

~Wendell Berry

Tiny Beauty

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~ Audra Foveo

Consider

Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer. ~ Proverbs 30:25

Family

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot

Agarics

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

Rhapsody

Green and Orange

Browning Quote

Light on Tree

Fountain

Fast shutter speed is amazing. If you care, click the photo to see the enlarged micro-drops and streaks paused mid-splash. What a wonder.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving

Lasting Love

By David Fry

We believe commitment is the glue that holds marriage together. Sadly, most people miss out on the joy of being together with the one they love. Once a couple is married too often the individuals begin to develop individual commitments that slowly but steadily pull the marriage apart. The things that they once enjoyed and the sights and sounds that once drew them to one another are replaced by individual interests, hobbies, jobs, and relationships that deteriorate the glue of commitment.

Marriage is about writing a story--the story of two people in love. We are committed to writing one story, not two;

one story in which there are two people who are creating a history from which they cannot quickly become detached.

We believe that one way to maintain the proper focus in marriage is to enjoy each other. This means sharing interests, ideas, and time doing what both people enjoy. To this end, we seek to spend our time doing what we can enjoy together.

We do not seek recreation for its own sake. Recreation, we believe, serves as an opportunity to rest the mind, recuperate the body, and--for purposes here--to deepen relationship. Jeremy Taylor in his classic Holy Living says it this way:

Do not allow your recreations to take up too much of your time,

but choose those that are healthful, short, transient,

and recreative, designed to refresh you. Avoid games

which require much time or which are apt to steal your

affections for more worthy activity. For to whatever you have

given your affections, you will not grudge to give your time.

God designed marriage to be a means of grace, a means whereby we may be sharpened as individuals in our own relationship with God. In order to prevent our marriage from being a source of strife, we value like passions and interests. This blog represents time and energy that we put into each other. Each picture is in some way or another a glimpse into our lives. They express our way of seeing the world in a thousand words, words that sometimes are not easily spoken.

Though marriage is much more complicated than simply sharing a hobby together, we believe that little things such as this go a long way in sustaining a relationship. The things that we enjoy together help us to enjoy each other. This being so, photography, in our case, is only a recreation. Our leading business is to love our Creator and to enjoy him forever. Let this, therefore,

Be our leading business and all others occasional employments

St. John Chrysostom

(Homilies in John)

Sanctuary

The spot where I go to breathe....