photographer

I love to take pictures of landscapes and water. Spending time with family and friends. I write short stories and lots of blogs. I love just being me.

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Sometimes Miracles Happen!!

Throughout my 68 years of living my life I have seen and heard a lot of different things some of those things are easy to see while others are just not that easy to believe even when you see them through the eyes that God has given you. About 18 years ago my daughter buried her middle son when he was almost 3 years old. Then a couple of weeks ago we got a letter in the mail from someone claiming to be her son. So he sent his phone number in the letter and my daughter called him then we got to see him later in the week. He was indeed or long last child. This was truly a miracle and he has been living in Vernon all this time. That in itself is a miracle as well. It's been a couple of weeks and I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that not only is my grandson back into my life but I'm a great grandma as well. My grandson has given us another miracle and given us a baby girl to spoil. Dress her in frilly clothes, or just jeans and a flannel shirt. lol Thank you for reading. I know I haven't been here in awhile but I have had some health issues which have gotten better, so I can do more things again.

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RESOLUTIONS (NEW OR OLD)

RESOLUTIONS (NEW OR OLD)

I know I am just little late on writing this, but I have done a couple of wedding photos and going to do another one this afternoon but it’s all good. I’m not sure if I really have any resolutions set in stone this year except maybe to continue losing the weight that I have been doing. I think the most important goal I am trying to achieve is to be a better friend to all you in the real world as…

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THE OLDER WE GET

THE OLDER WE GET

I have been thinking some time now that has I get older I seem to have less friends, not because we aren’t in touch but because they are not among the living anymore. It really saddens my hearts that I was so close to them all and now we all live in different parts of the states so we don’t keep up as much and we all have busy lives. Grandchildren have come along, children have grown up and we…

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MOM-MARCH 9, 1933 -SEPTEMBER 5, 2000

I hope you enjoy this blog about my mom. Thank you for reading it.

It has been 22 years today, but it still feels like yesterday. Someone once asked me if the pain has lessened in all these years my reply was when that happens, I will be sure to let you know. I had issues with my mom in my youth, but I think we all do at one time, or another have problems with our parents it is all a part of growing up. Toward the end of her life, I like to think we buried our…

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MEMORIAL DAY

On Memorial Day we honor our military people who gave their life so that others like you and I could be free. We also honor those who left pieces of themselves on the battlefield when they came back on to their love ones. Not necessarily body parts but mentally (PTSD) they heal from their injuries but the mental ones take longer to heal. If have a veteran home now don’t forget to hug them, I know…

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DREAMS

I hope you all are doing fine. I have been blank lately and this is the second thing I written in about 1 year. I hope you guys enjoy it. Thank you!!!

   Everyone has dreams and while most dreams are not bad others are really nightmares.  Mostly dreams are inspiration for giving something to write about or maybe something to draw or even just to smile about.  For example:  My mom has been gone this coming September, 22years and I am forever dreaming about her partly because I miss her and I know that after 61 years my dad and her are finally…

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Susie Sexton

Every now and then someone special comes into our lives, we don’t always know they are going to be special until we have known them for a while. Susie was like that for me. I first met her late night on Facebook when I came home from work when I was working second shift and I was relaxing and catching up on the things that had happened while I had been working. We got to talking and I found out…

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU!!

It has been a minute since I have been here and there is no excuse except that life has happened and not always in a good way. But I am still fighting and I suppose that is all that truly counts is at the end of the day you still have the fight to continue to go on. I am really happy to be back and see some of my old friends and know they are still here and get to know new ones. I am looking forward to checking out new material as well as stuff I am already know and love. I hope you all have a great 4th of July and a very safe one as well. Please pray for my brother and my daughter they are both under the weather and need your prayers for a recovery. Thank you!!! God bless you all and thank you again.

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"I just don't want to lose the part of me that is, you know, talented." A Star Is Born (2018)

“I just don’t want to lose the part of me that is, you know, talented.” A Star Is Born (2018)

A great blog from Reel Roy Reviews: Great Job!!!!

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OCTOBER AND ALL IT'S WONDERS

OCTOBER AND ALL IT’S WONDERS

October has come and with-it cooler temperatures, leaves falling from the trees, state fairs in some states, Indian Summers, and breast cancer awareness month.  All the normal things that start to happen when Fall begins.  I love this time of year it is sad that I live in a part of the state that doesn’t have the changing of the leaves to all those awesome colors like they do up north.  I have…

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  Friends come in all shapes, sizes, and tempers but if you have ever had one you know that they are precious and true.  I have had what I thought were friends who could be there for the long haul or in times of stress or hard times.  Then I have had a few that haven’t left my side when things have been so tough and in turn, I have tried to always be there for them.

I have a few friends that I have never met for one reason or another but they have been closer to me than my own family.  I can’t tell you why this is true but it is.  There are also friends that I would call more like just someone I have met and have in my life but aren’t close.

I will always be thankful for my many friends that God has given me over the years and thankful for the people who are in my life now.  My friends who are close to me know who you are I don’t need to list you here.  But please know that I am the luckiest person to have you here in my life and my heart.  Best of all, it is so cool to know that you feel the same about me.

Thank each and every one of you every day.  Hang in there and God bless!!!!

I love you each and every one of you so much.  Hugs, kisses and my heart forever.

    FRIENDS!!!! Friends come in all shapes, sizes, and tempers but if you have ever had one you know that they are precious and true. 

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HEADING INTO SEPTEMBER

We are in the final days of August and September is just around the corner.  My Mom will be gone on September 5 for 18 years and it still seems like yesterday that she has been gone.  Words fail me when I think of all the years she has missed.  My ex-husband is up there with her now so she is in great company along with others who have gone before her and have since followed her.

She was born in…

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As we head toward September and the weather starts to finally feel cooler my thoughts run toward the ache in my heart because my Mom is no longer with us.  A lot of those feelings stem from the fact that this is one of her favorite times of the year.  She always hated the hot weather or the really cold weather.  From the end of August until maybe late October or earlier November was the best because it wasn’t too hot nor too cold.  In my youth right after my Dad died and we moved from California back to Texas, she would take walks around the park and just enjoy the weather outside especially when the trees leaves starting changing colors.

It is also about the time we lost her during her favorite season.  When I first lost her I would think that her passing was both sad and bittersweet because she left us during her favorite time of year when God called her home, sad for us because she was no longer with us and bittersweet because it would be the ideal time for her to want to leave us if she had a choice.  I sometimes still have issues with the beginning of September because it was when we lost her.  It is coming up soon at the time of her passing and it’s not only hard for me but also my youngest daughter too.   I just think of her naturally more because of it being her favorite time of the year.

I suppose I have been very lucky in my life other than the loss of my Dad at an early age I had all my Grandparents on both sides of the family until my mid-thirties and other than my Great-grandma on my Dad’s side I have always been surrounded by family.  My mother had a lot of us children and her siblings did too other than my uncle who was her youngest brother who had just two children while all the rest had anywhere from 10 to 12 children but in those days you could have a bunch of kids and still live because you raised a lot of your own food or at least we did cause we owned a dairy farm.  Nowadays sometimes if you have more than one or two kids it is too many it also takes two paychecks to live.

  Late mid-September until the first week of November before the weather turns nasty is my favorite time of the year other than December when all the Christmas lights go up and at night one can look at the many different colors and different decorations on the lawn.  Because like my Mother before I love to just sit on a bench or in the chair on the porch and watch the changing of the leaves.

Anyway, I wish you all a great autumn and Fall season which goes into Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and lastly the beginning of the next year 2019 wow that means that not only will we be heading into the holiday season but into a new year.  Let me say just one more word and then I promise I will let you go.  I appreciate you all hanging out and waiting for me to come back so many things are happening in my life some for the good and others are sad but I am hanging in but I have had no thoughts for my blogs that I could share and now I feel I can at least writing for all of you again as well as myself.

  ~~AUTUMN AND COOLER WEATHER~~ As we head toward September and the weather starts to finally feel cooler my thoughts run toward the ache in my heart because my Mom is no longer with us. 

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PONDERING THOUGHTS The above picture was gotten from Facebook group I am on Surrealism Ink & GIF (Thank you Charlie for the use of the picture)

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7 Years on Wordpress.Com

7 Years on WordPress.Com

Thank you, WordPress for making this anniversary a memorable one.  7 years writing blogs is in itself a milestone but I couldn’t have done it without your support and without all of the people on wordpress.com who follow me and read my blogs on regular basic thank you ever so much.

Life has been hard and it is has been interesting but it has also been rewarding because my writing as always taken…

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journey. — I didn’t have my glasses on…. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […] via journey. — I didn't have my glasses on....

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THE ROAD OF A DIFFERENT PATH

THE ROAD OF A DIFFERENT PATH

    I have taken many roads in my lifetime some well-travelled and others not quite as much, but they have all been an adventure of sorts.  But I would like to consider each and every turn as the right path no matter how ill-advised it was at that time in my life.  We all have taken roads or detours which we have thought at first was not the right ones but in the end, if we hadn’t taken that turn…

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