And Then We Snapped - Week #42

Just an average week of daily photos. Trips to the playground and cowboy cookouts.

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” 

― Charles Chaplin

“The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.” 

― Peter S. Beagle

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.” 

― Kenneth Grahame

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” 

― Mahatma Gandhi

“All of you cowboys, fight for your land.” 

― Woody Guthrie

“All the world's a stage, 

And all the men and women merely players; 

They have their exits and their entrances; 

And one man in his time plays many parts, 

His acts being seven ages.” 

― William Shakespeare

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.” 

― Charles de Lint

Now head around the circle to see what Kelly from Kelly Jacobi Photography has been up to. 

And Then We Snapped - Weeks #40 and #41

I missed posting last week so you get 2 weeks of daily photos! Life has been good here, we've made a few visits to Minnesota to spend time with my family and my husbands family. We've also had a lot of wonderful outside time which we love.

“Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections—a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around—it didn’t seem enough to last a whole lifetime.” 

― Jennifer E. Smith

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
― Garrison Keillor



“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa



“Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.”
― Colin Powell



“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer



“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks



The camera should be like the notebook of a trained reporter, to record events as they happen, without trying to stop them to make a picture. - Stefan Lorant

“It was as though I saw for the first time that

life could branch into different paths, take different directions.” 

― Ally Condie

“Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?” 

― Andrew Bridge

“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.” 

― Ivan Doig

“The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” 

― Osho

Buddy and the dinner stand down. 

“Life is more fun if you play games.” 

― Roald Dahl

“It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.” 

― Dr. Seuss

“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” 

― Nemo Nox

Now travel around the blog circle. Up next is an amazing woman who also happens to be an amazing photographer. Go see what Cynthia Dawson Photography has been up to. 

And Then We Snapped - Week #39

This week was a little teaser to summer so we spent as much time outside as we could.

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” 

― Frida Kahlo

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” 

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,

you should not blame the wind for

revealing them to the trees.” 

― Kahlil Gibran

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” 

― Rumi

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.” 

― James Joyce

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” 

― Eleanor Roosevelt

Now head around the blog circle to see what Jenny from Through My Lens by Jenny has been up to.