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.