TUM - Love

Such a loaded word.  And I thought I would have PLENTY of opportunity with my mom and dad visiting - I haven't seen my dad in nearly five years, and my mom in two-and-a-half, and it is too long.  Our time together was so precious, and it felt like love lay over this house like a delicate veil, so delicate you hesitate to touch it for fear it will disintegrate, or disappear and just like that, it's gone.  Has three weeks passed already?

We didn't take many photographs, strange how that sometimes happens when on other occasions you use up multiple memory cards and run your camera battery flat.  I think it was because the visit was so loaded with emotion, both joy and sadness making it bittersweet.  I tried so hard to live in the moment, wrap my arms around each treasured memory, and burn the images of my mom in my kitchen, my dad in my dining room, or driving them around in my car into my mind so that when they had left, I could recall them in spirit and remember what that was like.  It felt almost too sacred to try and capture on camera.  And since it was impossible to feel the love without feeling the pain of saying goodbye again, this topic is as loaded as the word.  

I did find something to photograph, a little card my daughter made for me to let me know what a cool mom she thinks I am.  The love of a family as seen through the heart of a little girl . . .

Claire's picture is precious.  The love our animals have for us is so unconditional and wholesome, lovely, lovely photo Clarie:

And Mariette, who took a photo that she loves to tell us how much she loves this hobby.  I do too Mariette love this hobby, and I love your photo.  

If you would like to take more frosted photos, we are expecting a blizzard with one to two feet of snow to hit tomorrow night . . . it's a North Easter - they are always mean and nasty and have wicked bad tempers!

That's it for me this post, our next theme had me thinking of Shrek all week long: 'I'm a donkey on the edge!!!!'