Christmas day began dark and rainy. Clearly I wasn’t expecting a White Christmas. Texas isn’t known for our abundance of snow don’tcha know. {How’d y’all like that shoutout to my northern friendlies? :)} But nevertheless, midday on the 25th proved to be quite blizzardous. So Bing Crosby’s dream came true after all. 🙂 The next […]

It has been nearly three weeks since I met you for the first time. Seventeen days have past since I told you goodbye. You mimic the very waves that crash upon your shores. You rushed over me, swirling me around, made my heart race; you went so fast I could hardly savor the moment as you […]

Let me tell ya ’bout some of my faaaavorite girls. {Some new favorites and some old. ;)} We had this fall party at Sarah Jarvis’ house…cause Sarah Elizabeth is the sweetest, most awesome party hostess ever. 🙂 She planned a delightful game where we all exchanged gifts. {This was the gift I brought} And she […]

“The years teach muchwhich the days never knew.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson | It crept up on me like a thief in the night, or a sneaky little brother, or a basset hound that sees a child with a cookie in their hand from behind…all the same, it crept up and I didn’t give it […]

I have been going back and forth trying to filter out all my thoughts and form them into a readable blog post with thoughts that make sense. The past few weeks have been a time of refocusing. You know that little switch on DSLR cameras where you choose manual or auto focus? Well…I feel like […]

NOTE: Please read the title “strAW-bu-ree picking” in a British sort of way…it makes me happy to hear it said this way. 😉 Think of Friedrich from Sound of Music in this scene. 🙂 Anyways…moving on… This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields […]