Summerland Photography

Sometimes I have to remind myself to step away. Move back. Let the moment happen. Let the light breath and expand. Because sometimes the best images aren’t taken from up close; they’re from a distance.

A mother reading to her daughter under the watchful Ponderosa Pines.

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You are my sunshine

My only Sunshine.

You make me happy

When skies are grey

You’ll never know, dear,

How much I love you.

Please don’t take my sunshine away.

This is the song I sing to my sweet Addie Jo when she is fussy or just can’t settle down enough to sleep. It is the same song my mother sang to me as a child, and before that, her father to her. We even have an old recording of him, my grandfather, singing it in his boisterous and jolly off-key voice. Of course, the next song on the tape is “Roll Out The Barrel”, followed by a made-up ditty dedicated to his “little Polish” wife, but that’s just the kind of merry elf he was.

My Addie has the same lively spirit as her great grandfather. I call her my little sunshine girl. She’s so sweet, and I wanted to capture that in the images I made last week for her seven month photos. This was taken in late afternoon in a patch of wild mustard on my parent’s property. Thank goodness the plant isn’t toxic because she grazed liberally on the flowers all around her, happy in the day’s last sunshine. Come to think of it, she may get her lively appetite from her great grandfather too. 🙂

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