Recovering, A New Addition, and Many Portraits
It's been a busy spring - lots going on, despite my being incapacitated with illness for over 6 months. I finally did discover I was hit with both Valley Fever…
Into the Wild
All these hooligans were home from school on Presidents day. This meant that daddy, who was working from home, had a choice. He could either mount the monumental effort required…
Still Life: Peppers and Onions
I was blessed with some pretty produce today, and took some photos before I chopped them up. Grateful for this simple goodness.
November Holiday Walkabout
We're big on traditions in our family, and one we love is to go on a walking adventure the day after Thanksgiving. This year we took the train down to…
October 2018 at the Ranch
A fall break trip to the ranch where nobody got sick? Unbelievable! Yes, we had a great time, played in the mud canyon, went up to the mountains and filled…
2018 Christmas
Ah, Christmas! No matter how scattered and ill prepared I am due to dealing with one sick child after another after another, we still manage to have a beautiful and…
July 4th at the Ranch
Ahh, 4th of July at the ranch! This was our first 4th with 6 new Heidmanns, and we had a blast. No, not literally. We didn't even have any sparklers,…
June, come and gone!
And that's the first month of summer done, without so much as a please or thank you! We didn't do anything too remarkable - no big ranch trips or sight…
Tonic To My Soul
Today marked the end of another amazingly wonderful week with Vicki. We've known each other 37 years! Her visits every spring are a tonic to my soul. So how did…
Christmas Vacation
Our two weeks off of school was plagued with a lot of sickness this year, as it came in waves and hit just about everyone, and me last of all.…