ONE WITH NATURE

"When you encounter difficulties and 

contradictions in life, do not try to break 

them, but bend them with gentleness 

and time..."

My granddaughter, Emma is just starting to learn gymnastics.  She's only 7 but she loves it already; I think she's found "HER THING".  she's strong and she does a great job!  She was showing me her stuff the other day when she and I and her brother Alex were playing at the creek. What was especially cool about it was she was on a board acrossed the creek ... her own little "balance beam" in nature ... 


I'm INCREDIBLY impressed.  YOU GO Emma!

warm-up stretches

jumping

Whoa! ... Emma  - how do you DO that?
(can you tell Alex was WAAAY impressed)?

.chinese splits but, wrong pants make it just a little difficult.

.the BRIDGE.

.more stretches.

.sitting pretty.

.wow.  REALLY STRONG arms.

.more stretching.

.cooling down.

.reeee-laaaax-a-tion.

.all done.

VINTAGE GIRLS

"We are born at a given moment, 

in a given place and like 
vintage years of wine,

 we have the qualities 

of the year and of the season of which 

we are born." ~ Carl Gustav Jung ~

Here are some shots of Cassidy and Sheridan. I tweeked them just a little, to 

give them a  VINTAGE feel. 

I kinda like how they turned out and wanted to share ... 

 

TEENY-BOPPER FUN

 "Teenage girls:  they all have

 their insecurities, but for the most part, 

they have a very healthy self-esteem ..."  

Last week's BACK TO SCHOOL photo shoot with a couple of teeny-bopper girls was just hilariously FUN!!

This is Cassidy and Sheridan.

I found a killer location; an old abandoned pink & blue trailer and also an old school yard that I thought would help create some great photo's of the girls. 

The three of us had a blast until we ran out of good light. 

These two are excited for 9th grade  ...  LOOK OUT High School!!

I can't wait to do another photo shoot with these two; hopefully soon!!
THANKS for the fun time girls ... 

Cassidy and those blue, blue eyes!

just a little 'sassy'

Sweet Sheridan 

"reflecting" on what life has in store for them ... 

fun AND funny ...

quite OPPOSITE

SO serious

Lovely girl

the beginning of life's loooong road

we laughed SO hard!!!

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Little RUNAWAY

"Never run away from anything ... never!!" 

 ~ winston churchill ~

My granddaughter, Emma is really good at role-playing; I guess most 7 year old girls are!!
So, after a fun time playing in the creek with her brother (for another photo shoot), I took advantage of her  looking just a bit ragged and asked her to PRETEND she was "running away" so I could snap a few pictures  in a great nearby tunnel that runs under the freeway.  Her eyes got real big and I could just see her little brain ticking away!
It was FUN . . .  and EASY!!  (I honestly didn't even have to tell the girl what to DO!)  She did a GREAT job; she kept a serious, somber face the whole time and totally stayed in her character.  Between that and my editing, I think it turned out kinda believable!  Do I have fun, or what?   Emma ... you're my little *STAR*!