2009 September — A Southern Fairytale

Weekly Winners Sept 20th to Sept 26th

7:44 AM ByRachelFiled UnderPhotography, Weekly Winners

The First Signs of Fall
First Sign of Fall

A Little Rain Brings A Lot of Green

His Eyes Were NOT Bigger Than His Stomach (even if the pizza was bigger than his head)
Pizza Bigger Than Your Head

Daddy’s Hands
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For The Monkey’s Birthday
cupcakes in ice cream cones

Showing His Age Before Diving Into The Presents (Fwee)
fwee

Thanks to my darling friend Lotus whose view through her lens always inspires me. She hosts the Weekly Winners Fun, pop on over there browse around her blog and others who participate, you will be inspired, too.

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Daddy’s Hands

4:46 PM ByRachelFiled UnderFamily, Grandpa, Photography

Daddy's Hands

My Daddy Playing His Banjo While He Was Here For Monkey’s Birthday

Banjo Music, BlueGrass Music it resonates from my Daddy’s very being

The music is joyful, lively, powerful, passionate and full of pain, laughter, struggles and emotion

It is the music of my father

The joy that I see in his face as he strums his banjo , as his fingers dance on the strings

strumming, plucking, fumbling, finding their way

bringing forth the notes that make up the music of his childhood, his legacy

Joy swells in my heart, pride overwhelms the tears that tickle my eyes

happiness and peace settle on me as I listen and my heart beats with the rhythm of the strings

“Daddy’s hands were soft and kind when I was cryin´.
Daddy´s hands, were hard as steel when I´d done wrong.
Daddy´s hands, weren´t always gentle
But I´ve come to understand.
There was always love …..
In Daddy´s hands.”

~ Holly Dunn

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Tuesday Tribute To Summer Fun

12:57 PM ByRachelFiled UnderFamily

One of the best things about South Texas, the weather.
One of the worst things about South Texas, the weather.

One of the things that makes summer weather bearable, being able to take the boat out and go fishing.. the breeze off the water and the kids smiles, laughter and squeals of delight… make even a 100 degree day with sopping, heavy 100% humidity.. wonderful.

This is the first summer that we’ve had a boat and I cherish the memories that we’ve made.
Whether it was learning how to cast the Barbie Pole for the first time with Daddy.
barbie fishing pole

Passing out from the sheer exhaustion and excitement and sleeping on the boat under Daddy’s jacket for 2 hours, which added a blissful bit of silence to the afternoon…
asleep on the boat

Or the best catch I could ever hope for…
catch of the day monkey

The memories that my family and I made this summer out on the water, with our fishing poles are some that will always make me smile.
I cherish and am grateful for the laughter of my children, the wild eyed excitement as they experienced that sense of flying in a way that can only be experienced on a boat soaring down a smooth body of water with the wind whipping through their hair and ripping the screams of delight from their mouths and tossing them back onto the wake behind us.
Faster Daddy

Those smiles, laughter, screams and slimy fish scale covered days… they are what this summer was made of and I hope that my children will remember them with as much fondness as we do.

This post comes straight from my heart and I’m thrilled to add it to the Tuesday Tribute portion of Moxie Mona’s Around the Blogosphere in 5 Days

Below you can even see Mona helping to steer on one of our many summer fishing excursions.

mona drives the boat