Fall is here, and so are a TON of sessions. Just small peeks for now until I can get to the full blog posts!
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You might recognize this lovely family from their Maternity Session and a teeny peek from his Newborn Session. It was so great to hear from them that they wanted to celebrate Mr. C’s first birthday with one of my mini sessions. I am looking forward to watching him grow some more.
I grew up in a yard. A simple little 1/4 acre suburban lot that held a jungle to my curious eyes amongst my parents gardens. We were green thumbs and spent a majority of our time outside, and playing the yards, discovering critters right and left. Instead of shying away from the unknown, we were raised to understand them, explore them, learn them and know who we could “play with” and who we could not. I held snakes, lizards, turtles, worms, and many other bugs and critters. They were like treasures amongst the arduous tasks of weeding and manacuring the landscape. I was determined to try to raise my kids the same. It is nice to not fear what we live amongst. It is good to know that they have their place and we have ours, explore them kindly and then send them on their way.
I have made it my goal to try to document my kids discoveries. We live on 5 acres of woods, creeks and wetlands in a nice suburban neighborhood and get our fair share of exotic (to us) discoveries. Her are three of the several finds in just the last couple of days. Those not represented were our daily bird visitors, a toad, several ant colonies, worms, copper head snake (that was taken care of sadly. One of my dogs did get bit by, she is fine, but it was residing near the kids playground), 2 turtles, and a salamander. As I write this I vow to try to take an image of each of these as they find them for my kids memories (maybe not the copperheads). So today we have a couple of skinks that were taking a dip in our watering tin outside and an American White Moth that found its way at our front door jam.