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Portland Portrait Photographer } Peachy

nimda — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:14:25 +0000

This vintage baby scale was a gift from a friend and I could not wait to photograph it. It just needs something soft and sweet wrapped up inside! Hoping to have images of someone soft and sweet wrapped up inside soon.

Portland Portrait Photographer } My Romantic Backyard Rendezvous

nimda — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:35:00 +0000

He had just gotten back from a long business trip and I wanted to create some magic!

Portland Photographer } Autumn Time

nimda — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:04:04 +0000

I love fall, and there is nothing better than a good book, a cup of homemade soup, and cuddling up in a wool sweater on a crisp autumn day. Maybe it’s because I am a fall baby; comfort foods, hayrides, and apples are just my thing! Happy Autumn.

Portland Photographer } Grandparents

nimda — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:00:34 +0000

When I was little, I loved visiting my grandparents. In my memories I can still see Grandma making breakfast in the kitchen. I watched her closely from behind a set of wooden blocks and a pile of my uncles old hotwheel cars on the floor. Every fall I smell new shoes and crisp jeans and think of our back to school shopping trips. As I have grown, my relationship with my grandmother has matured and changed. I no longer rely on those fall shopping trips, but I have come to rely on her acceptance of me, her cander and the wisdom of her experience.

Portland Photographer } sprinkers

nimda — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:34:56 +0000

I was fortunate to grow up drinking out of a hose in the summer, watering the plants was my preferred household chore. Barefoot and fancy free I recall searching for four leaf clovers and collecting rolly-polly’s. No childhood summer is complete without the simple pleasures of three digit weather, sprinklers and a banana Popsicle!

Portland Photographer } Sweet 16

nimda — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:16:25 +0000

My friend threw a surprise sweet 16 for her youngest daughter recently and invited me over to take a few detail shots of her party planning genius! It really was a “sweet 16,” with cupcakes, a candy bar, and a tender daddy daughter moment. Dad was in-charge of picking up the 16 balloons from the grocery store and when he couldn’t fit them all in the car, he walked all the way home to ensure their safe arrival. In my opinion nothing could be sweeter.

Portland Photographer } Berry Pickin’

nimda — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:00:03 +0000

Since we moved to Oregon one of my most cherished summer activities is berry picking. There is nothing sweeter. And while jam and tarts and a homemade berry pie a la mode are some of berry pickings greatest rewards, my favorite thing about it is the time spent picking them. In a word, rejuvenation. The peacefulness of the experience alone calms my spirit and fills me with joy for the Lord’s goodness to me.

Portland Photographer } Patriotism

nimda — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:19 +0000

The Fourth of July is one of my top two holidays. I love everything about it, the parades, the fireworks, dressing up in red, white and blue. Everything about the Fourth of July is wrapped up in the tradition and symbolism that has made our nation great. Every Fourth of July, when the first fireworks light up the darkening summer sky I take a moment to turn around and see them illuminate the faces in the crowd. There is a stillness in that moment when I feel a kinship with all Americans. It recalls to mind the words, “the bombs bursting in air gave proof to the night that our flag was still there.” As a parent it is days like this that make me sit back and take inventory, I ask myself the question, “where did my patriotism come from, and how do I offer that to my children?” I think it is different for everyone, but I do know this, there is power in tradition, word, and song. I hope your Fourth was filled with all of them.

Portland Oregon Photographer } “Read Me”

nimda — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:30:44 +0000

I have always been a lover of books. There is something so traditional and comforting about them. Probably just the happy memories of being read to as a child. Anyway, when I married my husband, we didn’t have children right away, but every Father’s Day I have given him a small children’s book as a gift. I started out collecting Sandra Boynton since he is a such a fan. When my son was born it was all the father son books, with my daughter, Beatrix Potter; each tenderly inscribed with my expressions of appreciation to my husband for his fatherhood. It brings me so much joy to see my family experience the delight of reading together. It is a beautiful thing to have your child climb into your lap and say, “Read, Me!”

So, to all you fathers, Happy Father’s Day. Gather your babies around you, young or old and enjoy every one’s favorite past time- A good book.

Portland Photographer } little in lace

nimda — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:23:12 +0000

…Tea parties, laces
and baby doll faces
that’s what little girls are made of

-author unknown

I love the perfect imperfection of this moment. One side up, one side down. It actually reminds me of another familiar rhyme. She’s lovely in lace, all girls are. I can’t think of anything more girly.