the sun has shifted. the light is different.
i sat for a minute and had a late afternoon cup of coffee in the yard, noticing all the spring changes.
spring is just fabulous.
this week, my dear friend and i stomped through a field of wildflowers for her maternity shoot and i can not wait to work through them and put them up here soon. the light, the field, the flowers, and HER… it was perfection to photograph.
mothering a boy, five and a half years old, takes heart (make that ANY mothering of any sort). it is constant. with our whole heart & mind.
trying to understand who he is. and what his heart is saying so much louder that he hasn’t the words to use. how challenging it must be, to feel such big things inside, but to not have the full vocabulary to express them. so that’s where mothering tries to enter in – trying to see behind the eyes, deeper than the ninja kicks into the air, underneath the loud voice which seems to raise when a certain baby gets louder too.
i hope for my children to have complexity & depth… that they grow into adults with have broader visions for the world than their own selves.
so i hope, i pray, and i just keep trying… my gavin is pretty much over having his picture taken these days, hence more photos of kai lately. my gavin challenges me in a different way than anyone ever has. i wish i photographed him all day, every day to bottle up all the emotion, energy, beauty, and depth i see in him. but he’s pretty over it – and wants me to converse with him. very wise gavin, good idea. but he obliged me back on “ten on ten” with these sets. and i just love seeing him still.
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as i’ve fallen in love with my baby, i seem to have fallen more in love with photographing other babies as their families welcome them, adore them, and fall head over heals for them too. i came home from this photoshoot feeling like my heart was filled. just the sweetness of loving a little baby as they fall asleep in your arms. oh – just too much…
the beautiful sweetness is almost unreal. like the great-grandmother whispered after rocking the baby – “ah, just like a doll…”
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ten on ten, with a little twist to keep me challenging my eye & seeing beyond just one frame. thanks rebekah for the monthly inspiration…
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inside myself, i refer to him as my little angel. i can’t even put words to how much i adore him.
this sweet boy wanted in the shots – and my heart is huge for the growing boy he is becoming. testing out what it is to be a kid, and not just a little one. but so desperately holding on to the securities of what makes his heart feel safe.
yes — gaze quietly up into the softly blowing trees little baby. and be still. i love you.
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it was 75 and sunny.
we all gathered to bless, celebrate, & honor sianne’s sweet growing belly. as annie & i planned and put together the shower – we just can’t help marvel at what our lives have become, after over 20 years of friendships between us all.
it seems like yesterday we celebrated (THIS DAY)
it is all so magical & miraculous.
as we sat down under the white blossoms in the trees – a light sea breeze came and softly shook the trees to have tiny white petals drift through the sky and onto us all. it looked like a warm, sunny, delicate snow had fallen. it was more magical than photographs can portray.
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my sweet sister & her beautiful baby came to visit for a quick weekend get-away.
our babies cooed together, explored each other’s fingers and faces, & we basked in the sun and sand. a birthday weekend with my family for the memory books.
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a random collection of photographs from over the week.
my loves: my baby’s sleeping lashes & my big boy’s sunkissed freckles.
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