Dreamy dreaming

Please, Mom? {Lifestyle Photography}

"Please, Mom, can we let go of these balloons?!"

This little girl didn't sit still for long.  She liked walking and exploring and keeping up with her brothers and sisters.  What a delight to spend time with this gem of a family!

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Savor the sound

As part of the Wild Rovers tour, Cory Chisel, Adriel Denae, the Candles, and special guest Norah Jones played to a sold-out crowd at Washington Auditorium last night in Ely, Minnesota!  I love silence, but on this night, I savored the sound....

Below the surface

I see beauty below the surface,
in the thicket of tendrils
growing out of the muck,
reaching for the surface,
swaying in the wake,
but... rooted.

Floating in clouds

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From a dream of a day...

The canoe wouldn't sit still during this creative session, so I let go of those preconceived ideas and played with the situation.  And, it was... play!

Perfect Summer Day

What an perfectly splendid day - truly a summer dream to be out in the canoe with calm water, warm sunshine, puffy white clouds on the edge of the BWCA wilderness!  As photos were created, some memories are etched into my mind: a trail of lilypads wiggling, evidence of the beaver aiming to avoid the stranger; little green frog resting on a bunched up mass of torn & tattered lilypads; painted turtle underwater paddling under and away from me; reverberating of the local loon family yodels; waterbugs scattering, leaving wakes at random angles; and, as the evening turned to dark gray, a wolf pausing and disappearing like a spirit in the night.

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