Thanks, Alice. I take millions of pictures of the boys, and even though you can’t see their faces in this one, it is one of my favorites — it was the littlest one’s first experience with snow, so big brother had lots to show him!
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Great photo! Reminds me of Norman Rockwell’s work. He’d ‘ve snatched that one up in a microsecond.
Kids contemplating their universe and the dog sniffing up his… that photo could easily have come right out of my childhood… maybe you have been to ND Brinnianne, ha!
BTW It never occurred to me TX would ever have snow?
Thanks, NDD! Boonesville is northwest of Dallas-ForthWorth, and yeah int he northern parts of Texas, snow is a yearly occurance….In my 8 years in Austin, we have had snow only twice, but a couple of years ago Corpus Christi (on the Gulf coast) got 5 inches!!
Pix of kids contemplating their universe are the best, aren’t they?
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A winter picture – my favorite season – crusty snow, sunshine at an angle, shadows of blue, winter grasses in shades of yellow, gently rollong hills, blue sky, a very stately and solid tree, a dog, and two kids – a perfect picture!
What really captures my eye is the contrast between the massive tree and your two small children (and dog). There is just something so poignant about the moment you have caught in this photo. Perhaps it is the ephemeral nature of childhood?
The funny thing is, the littlest son and I were painting for real out on the deck that day and I was taking lots of picturees of him (he was 18 months and was using HIMSELF as a canvas! lol) , then I look up and…..
Lovely Texas sky, B., These pictures are great. You in the kimono, the Hiroshima memorial, Seoul – and a bit of the stories with them, which helps make them special. I loved them!
I had a good time looking for them — I had to digitize most of them because they are so old and a lot of them I hadn’t looked at in quite a while — pictures do tell wonderful stories — I’m glad you enjoyed them!
The riot police are practically a permanent fixture on the streets of Seoul — see my comment below!
What a city though, my 7 months there were full of surprises and learning!! There were quite a few days when the last thing I would do was admit/advertise that I was an American!
I’m glad you like it — this was taken inJapan in a small fishing village on the Honshu southern coast. Right across the street fromt his was a huge, modern highrise hotel — the old and the new made lots of interesting juxtapositions, sometimes a bit sad, like this one….
Halloween, 1991.
That is when I arrived in Hiroshima. This is the children’s memorial in the Hiroshima Peace Park. The strings of origami cranes are made and brought from all over the country.
This is me in full formal kimono.
I lived in Japan in ’91-’93. It took my mom’s friends over an hour to get me into this and the shoes were waaay too small (I am not wearing them in this pic), but to this day, it is the most beautiful thing I have ever worn.
What a lovely picture of you Brin..
I too have a love of kimona’s and I did own several in my antique days, unfortunately went up with the house fire. The kimona you have on is indeed very beautiful, was it yours and do you still have it.
BTW how did you end up in Texas, was that your home state?
Thanks, diane (remember, this was 14 years ago!!)! No, it wasn’t mine, they just dressed me up in it!
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No, Texas was not my home state, as a matter of fact at the time this picture was taken, I had never stepped foot in this state in my life. I made a good friend while I was there who live in Caldwell Texas and when I came back to the states I satyed with her for a few months — couldn’t find a job, so I went back to Virginia where an old friend of mine gave me a room in his house and a part-time job as a receptionist — ironically, when I finally landed a job about 8 months later, it was in Kingsville, Texas, so back I went in July of 1994….
Aw, thanks, Manny — that one really was cool — i was really happy that it lloked just like what I saw when I took the picture (always a crap shoot with my old digital camera) — I always thought there was going to be a poem that came along with it, but I never have gotten around to yanking it out of me.
I agree! The old boat and dock surely have a story in them. Do you know what the pink flowers are at the bottom?
The childrens memorial at Hiroshima touched my heart and the kimono photo is just lovely 😉
I love the sinking boat shot, but they’re all so evocative. I think Indianadem is on to something. Every single one of these could inspire a story. Thanks so much for bringing them to the fair.
Wow!! From him, that is quite a compliment! Give him my humble thanks!
It was hard to pick just some from my time in Jpapn and Korea, there we so many beautiful shots….
Buddha’s birthday is celebrated (at least publically, I didn’t get to see many private celebrations — I was only in Korea 7 months as opposed to the 2 years in Japan and mostly hung out with ex-pats in Seoul) much the same way they celebrate lots of other things:
Parades, dancing, music, confettii, incense, praying, chanting and such….as far as the riot police go, in Seoul, they appear at the drop of a hat, or whenever more than 3 people gather together (only a slight exaggeration). Most of them are young kids — they have mandatory service in Korea, so a lot of them go to college to for two years, into the service, then back to finish college. One of my students described a march he was in that ended in a stand off with riot police and he he was face to face with a guy who had, just the month before…they actually knew each other fairly well and he siad that neither of them said anything but he knew that they were both thinking that they could be switched in their roles jsut as easily….
Seoul, the only place in the wrold where I have experienced tear gas….I just thought it was a really bad pollution day. My friend from denmark just laughed and laughed at me!
aah my dear lady, do not underate yourself, for your photos show the natural talent that lies covered up in your soul ; ) (take the covers off and let it soar ; )
I am so happy to see you!! Thank you for seeing me through these pictures — I do try to not to let anythng in my soul lie covered up for long — I do so miss you around here.
I loved the lanterns one. I want to go to Asia so bad, I can taste it. We keep joking that as a gift for me giving birth (maybe mid-Dec.), we’ll go to Japan for New Years (ours). Like that’ll happen.
I can’t wait to travel more. We keep taking fantasy trips online. We pic a spot and Google info about it. Now, I’m getting itchy feet.
I’m due in mid-Dec. with a boy. I have a 2 year old little girl and the last trip out of the country we took was in ’01 when we went to Jamaica. We haven’t even been down to Baja since our kid was born. We’ve gone to Kansas City, Las Vegas and San Francisco. I want to take her more places, since she’s so open about everything. Maybe next fall…
While I have some great memories of traveling with my daughter when she was young, it’s even better now that she’s grown. She’s my favorite traveling companion.
I’m a biologist, she’s working on becoming a geologist. Between us, we can cover a lot of bases of cool things to notice and point out to each other. Just wait, Brin, it’s so amazing when your kids start to teach you things (I know, they’ve been teaching us since the day they were born). But I mean the things you learn in school kind of things – I now know that if you don’t know what kind of rock it is, basalt is usually a good guess 🙂
I want to meet your daughter, J. she sounds like an incredible young woman….of all the things I wish we had money for, traveling is the one (you know, after food and shelter and the like) — I was so lucky in this when I was a kid, I feel like I’m shortchanging them by not being able to provide it.
Ethan, Quinn and Bear early morning in Boonesville, TX
(grandma and grandpa’s house) last December…
It feels like me and my little brother – he is still that brave adventurer.
Thanks, Alice. I take millions of pictures of the boys, and even though you can’t see their faces in this one, it is one of my favorites — it was the littlest one’s first experience with snow, so big brother had lots to show him!
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Great photo! Reminds me of Norman Rockwell’s work. He’d ‘ve snatched that one up in a microsecond.
Kids contemplating their universe and the dog sniffing up his… that photo could easily have come right out of my childhood… maybe you have been to ND Brinnianne, ha!
BTW It never occurred to me TX would ever have snow?
Thanks, NDD! Boonesville is northwest of Dallas-ForthWorth, and yeah int he northern parts of Texas, snow is a yearly occurance….In my 8 years in Austin, we have had snow only twice, but a couple of years ago Corpus Christi (on the Gulf coast) got 5 inches!!
Pix of kids contemplating their universe are the best, aren’t they?
😉
A winter picture – my favorite season – crusty snow, sunshine at an angle, shadows of blue, winter grasses in shades of yellow, gently rollong hills, blue sky, a very stately and solid tree, a dog, and two kids – a perfect picture!
What really captures my eye is the contrast between the massive tree and your two small children (and dog). There is just something so poignant about the moment you have caught in this photo. Perhaps it is the ephemeral nature of childhood?
Thank you.
Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown, TX
(about 30 miles from here)
OOO I have been there,an amazing place!
I would love to see you, Rosie!
Ethan just loved this soooo much, it was great to see him discover everything that was “under the ground”!!
You would run screaming from the room!
I might have to come down there and kick some TexASS!
Painting the sky
Taken from my back deck in January of this year.
wow!!!!!!!!!! great!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed them Brenda! Thanks!
Such brush strokes!!! Lovely!
The funny thing is, the littlest son and I were painting for real out on the deck that day and I was taking lots of picturees of him (he was 18 months and was using HIMSELF as a canvas! lol) , then I look up and…..
It was a wonderful afternoon all around!
Lovely Texas sky, B., These pictures are great. You in the kimono, the Hiroshima memorial, Seoul – and a bit of the stories with them, which helps make them special. I loved them!
I had a good time looking for them — I had to digitize most of them because they are so old and a lot of them I hadn’t looked at in quite a while — pictures do tell wonderful stories — I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Riot police prepare to line the streets on a Buddha’s Birthday celebration in Seoul, Korea, 1992.
Riot police… Buddha’s birthday… ROTFLMAO
The riot police are practically a permanent fixture on the streets of Seoul — see my comment below!
What a city though, my 7 months there were full of surprises and learning!! There were quite a few days when the last thing I would do was admit/advertise that I was an American!
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Beautiful, beautiful.
I’m glad you like it — this was taken inJapan in a small fishing village on the Honshu southern coast. Right across the street fromt his was a huge, modern highrise hotel — the old and the new made lots of interesting juxtapositions, sometimes a bit sad, like this one….
Lanterns in downtown Seoul.
Halloween, 1991.
That is when I arrived in Hiroshima. This is the children’s memorial in the Hiroshima Peace Park. The strings of origami cranes are made and brought from all over the country.
This is me in full formal kimono.
I lived in Japan in ’91-’93. It took my mom’s friends over an hour to get me into this and the shoes were waaay too small (I am not wearing them in this pic), but to this day, it is the most beautiful thing I have ever worn.
What a lovely picture of you Brin..
I too have a love of kimona’s and I did own several in my antique days, unfortunately went up with the house fire. The kimona you have on is indeed very beautiful, was it yours and do you still have it.
BTW how did you end up in Texas, was that your home state?
Thanks, diane (remember, this was 14 years ago!!)! No, it wasn’t mine, they just dressed me up in it!
😉
No, Texas was not my home state, as a matter of fact at the time this picture was taken, I had never stepped foot in this state in my life. I made a good friend while I was there who live in Caldwell Texas and when I came back to the states I satyed with her for a few months — couldn’t find a job, so I went back to Virginia where an old friend of mine gave me a room in his house and a part-time job as a receptionist — ironically, when I finally landed a job about 8 months later, it was in Kingsville, Texas, so back I went in July of 1994….
a lovely lady for a lovely atire. You and the kimono are simply beautiful.
You are too kind — the Japanese ladies who dressed me up deserve all the credit!
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I could have sworn I sent nine….could be wrong tho. Thanks for posting these for me!!
Now that I see that there are actual photographers posting though, I feel a bit silly for having submitted these…
These are awesome pics! I love the ‘painting the sky’ shot, I’ve always been drawn to the way clouds dance in the sky above.
Aw, thanks, Manny — that one really was cool — i was really happy that it lloked just like what I saw when I took the picture (always a crap shoot with my old digital camera) — I always thought there was going to be a poem that came along with it, but I never have gotten around to yanking it out of me.
I agree! The old boat and dock surely have a story in them. Do you know what the pink flowers are at the bottom?
The childrens memorial at Hiroshima touched my heart and the kimono photo is just lovely 😉
I love the sinking boat shot, but they’re all so evocative. I think Indianadem is on to something. Every single one of these could inspire a story. Thanks so much for bringing them to the fair.
My pleasure, kansas — thank YOU for looking at them!
I don’t know what the flowers are — my Japanese was very primative at that point (first month in the country).
I’m glad you enjoyed the pix!
My husband, Jim, asked me to tell you that he really liked your photographs, especially the sunken boat and the lanterns pictures.
And he’s also wondering about how Koreans celebrate Buddha’s birthday — I think he wants to plan a small riot, I mean, celebration for Brown County.
Wow!! From him, that is quite a compliment! Give him my humble thanks!
It was hard to pick just some from my time in Jpapn and Korea, there we so many beautiful shots….
Buddha’s birthday is celebrated (at least publically, I didn’t get to see many private celebrations — I was only in Korea 7 months as opposed to the 2 years in Japan and mostly hung out with ex-pats in Seoul) much the same way they celebrate lots of other things:
Parades, dancing, music, confettii, incense, praying, chanting and such….as far as the riot police go, in Seoul, they appear at the drop of a hat, or whenever more than 3 people gather together (only a slight exaggeration). Most of them are young kids — they have mandatory service in Korea, so a lot of them go to college to for two years, into the service, then back to finish college. One of my students described a march he was in that ended in a stand off with riot police and he he was face to face with a guy who had, just the month before…they actually knew each other fairly well and he siad that neither of them said anything but he knew that they were both thinking that they could be switched in their roles jsut as easily….
Seoul, the only place in the wrold where I have experienced tear gas….I just thought it was a really bad pollution day. My friend from denmark just laughed and laughed at me!
aah my dear lady, do not underate yourself, for your photos show the natural talent that lies covered up in your soul ; ) (take the covers off and let it soar ; )
peace be with you
I am so happy to see you!! Thank you for seeing me through these pictures — I do try to not to let anythng in my soul lie covered up for long — I do so miss you around here.
Thank you for seeing me.
ah, but I am always here, as long as your remember ; )
feed the good wolf……peace be with you…
I loved the lanterns one. I want to go to Asia so bad, I can taste it. We keep joking that as a gift for me giving birth (maybe mid-Dec.), we’ll go to Japan for New Years (ours). Like that’ll happen.
Thanks, fab!
When is the little fab due? Is this your first one?
I miss traveling so much — I haven’t been anywhere in a very long time. Living in Japan and Korea were experiences I wouldn’t trade for most anything.
I can’t wait to travel more. We keep taking fantasy trips online. We pic a spot and Google info about it. Now, I’m getting itchy feet.
I’m due in mid-Dec. with a boy. I have a 2 year old little girl and the last trip out of the country we took was in ’01 when we went to Jamaica. We haven’t even been down to Baja since our kid was born. We’ve gone to Kansas City, Las Vegas and San Francisco. I want to take her more places, since she’s so open about everything. Maybe next fall…
Two is so different from one, but watching them interact and grow close has been wonderful and amazing for me!
I dream that one day we will be able to take them places, but we are so broke that I wonder if it will ever be possible while their still young…
But when they’re older, or grown up, would be ok too, I can keep dreaming. If you all get to go, I want PICTURES!! Deal?
We have about million pics of her here. It would be very nice to see how she’ll interact with a sibling, especially on trips.
While I have some great memories of traveling with my daughter when she was young, it’s even better now that she’s grown. She’s my favorite traveling companion.
I’m a biologist, she’s working on becoming a geologist. Between us, we can cover a lot of bases of cool things to notice and point out to each other. Just wait, Brin, it’s so amazing when your kids start to teach you things (I know, they’ve been teaching us since the day they were born). But I mean the things you learn in school kind of things – I now know that if you don’t know what kind of rock it is, basalt is usually a good guess 🙂
I want to meet your daughter, J. she sounds like an incredible young woman….of all the things I wish we had money for, traveling is the one (you know, after food and shelter and the like) — I was so lucky in this when I was a kid, I feel like I’m shortchanging them by not being able to provide it.
Guess who?
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