I’ve got my website up on the new hosting package, and as you can see, I also have the blog moved over to the new server as well.

Just want to welcome everyone to the new site- there will be more changes to the site and the blog – some will be cosmetic, but I’ll be adding more of my photography work as I get the system set up as I want it.

thanks again for stopping by!

While cleaning off some bookshelves, I came across one of my son’s books: an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.

I flipped the book open to a page that contained several quotes from Frederick Douglass.  In light of everything going on in America now, I thought this quote was particularly fitting:

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

How much of what is going on in this country now,  can be traced back to someone somewhere saying, ‘Well, my one little voice won’t make a difference. “  “I’m not getting involved – I don’t want to get in trouble.”  “It’s none of my business what happens to those folks (whoever ‘those folks’ might be). As long as it doesn’t involve me, I’m not saying anything.”

When are we going to be like Howard Beale in Network – get mad as hell and do something about it?

I’ve been challenged by Angelika over at Angelika Heart Talk to share a smile today, so here goes:
When my older kids were little, they enjoyed watching Disney’s Sing a Long Songs videos. One of our favorites was Figaro and Cleo from Pinnochio.

Anytime I want to visit those days again, all I need to do is catch one of these video clips on Youtube and I’m there again, on the sofa with my kids, all of us singing along.
I have four favorite grandsons, Hunter, Dyllan, Reid and Talan, as well as six favorite granddaughters, named Chloe, Khloe, Destiny, Laynie, Nevaeh [read hers backwards!] and our newest one, who will be born sometime this fall.
Here’s a story about Reid:
This last fall, I was talking to Reid (who is 2 1/2 and helps his dad farm and take care of the cows), and asked him about his newest surprise. He looked at me and said, “I got a trike-cycle!” I said, “Well, my goodness! What color is it, red?” He looked at me with these big solemn eyes, and said, scornfully, “No, it’s GWEEN!”
I should have known- what self-respecting John Deere-tractor-riding farmer boy would ride a Massey-Ferguson red trike-cycle?
And just so I represent the girls as well, here’s one from Laynie:
Laynie, who is four, has a nice fenced in back yard with a trampoline. Once when we were visiting her, I talked to her while she jumped. When I asked her if she jumped a lot, she said, “Yes, I like to, but the neighbors don’t like for me to because sometimes I jump over their fence.” All this was said with a straight face and no thought beforehand. If she doesn’t work in the entertainment field, I’m going to be surprised.
These are just some of the reasons I love talking to my grandchildren- they educate me in so many ways, I can’t even count. If I don’t learn something from them, it’s because I’m not paying attention.
If you need a smile, and can’t find one, just hang around a little kid for a little while- they’ll loan you one of theirs.

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