AMAZING

Colors, Music, Dancing.

The beginning of our daughter's wedding day.

Groom's Indian family dancing in celebration as the Hindu ceremony begins.
His brother is the bald guy dancing out front. His sister is in the bright pink sari.

Amazing.

ONCE UPON A TIME....

one of those jobs came along. You know the kind; from the outside you always thought it would be your dream job. You would be perfect for it. Marketing design, photography, art design. The perfect job. And you are perfect for it. So perfect, in fact, that it eats your life. Consumes it. And the few little bits the job doesn't eat are consumed with The Wedding. The one your middle daughter has been planning for over a year that has now become a looming reality that leaves you with 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night for 6 or 7 weeks.
And it turns out the job isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn good and it keeps you challenged and sane. Or insane in a healthy way.
The Wedding? A twenty-two hour day blending two families, two cultures, two faiths. One of those Bucket List events that everyone should experience once in a lifetime.
Now that life is a little more manageable, I--camera in hand--am glad to be back in the relative calm of life.

DISORDER

A tornado created disorder just a couple of streets from a house we own. Happily no one was injured and serious property damage was limited. The part that amazed me was the very tight path of damage--homes on either side didn't have as much as a branch out of place.  I expected to find leaves and branches to clean up throughout a general area beyond where the tornado actually touched down. The path where it first touched down maybe 1/2 mile away could clearly be seen as well as where it traveled across the fields and woods both before and after this hit.

FROSTED

Middle daughter was frosted when her sister treated her to a face plant in birthday cake after catching her demonstrating to the birthday boy how to take an illicit bite out of the cake, hands free.

EYES

Love their sparkling eyes as they celebrate his birthday. Youngest daughter and her son,  youngest grandchild.

TWO

Hard to believe those bright blue eyes have been stealing hearts for two years now.

SPRING

Sunrise on a Spring morning--trees not yet fully leafed, mist after a late spring frost, sun warming things up.  Makes that morning drive to work worth it.