Lydia's Senior Pictures

I am so blessed to have friends who allow me to take their senior pictures! :)  I really am.  I spent several hours with Lydia last week which gave me time to photograph her in several different outfits and locations. She plays the piano regularly at our church and at times I think that she is not able to think of anything else.  However she also finds time to spend time with her most beloved horses (I remember years ago, how she babbled on about owning a horse one day, when she drew one horse picture after another and prayed continuously that soon God would gift her with one of her own...) and that was certainly an awesome experience to photograph the two of them together.

Sarah's Senior Pictures

The time has come when all my friends are graduating and in need of senior pictures.  This is special, because I have the privilege of going out with them and snapping a billion and two pictures of beautiful people, while laughing and having fun all the while.

Sarah lives in the country, and her "front yard" consists of fields of grass.  She wanted pictures with the hay bales so when the grass was cut and baled together, she called me up and we strolled out into the field, snapping those pictures.

nate and ollyce

 sunday afternoon the family came over for dinner. nate and ollyce wanted some pictures together so mom when out with them.

i tagged along.

little things

*please take the time to read the poem ("little things") which is scattered amongst the photos!!

a spider is a little thing,

but once a spider saved a king,

the little bees are wiser far

than buffaloes or lions are...

a little pen may write a word

by which a nation shall be stirred.

a little money, wisely spent,

a world of sorrow may prevent,

 a little counsel, rightly given,

may lift a sinful soul to heaven...

a little fault, if left to grow,

an emperor may overthrow,

a little word but spoken in jest,

may rob your neighbor of his rest,

a little selfishness and pride

the kindest household may divide.

little vices many times

out-herod felonies and crimes,

a little virtues in the sum

great excellencies do become.

- a sweet little poem written by one or all of the lukens girls. ever heard of them?  they had a bit of correspondence with louisa m. alcott, as she encouraged them in their small, but quickly growing paper that was inspired by the in-house publications of the March girls.