Runaround Rosie and #19

Hello Monday....

When you're part of a big family it's sometimes a rare thing to get one-on-one time.  

 

Here's my Mom, Rosie catching a few minutes with her #19 grandchild, Aidan.

I loved catching them catching up with each other,

 and I am grateful that they shared a moment.

 Me and my Dad had the 1930 Model 'A' pulled out of the garage to take some photos for Ben Ashby's next issue of FOLK magazine. 

I am working on a fun piece about cars and their iconography for each generation. Why we love them and what it is we love about them as Americans, but more on that soon...

 Silly faces and all, these two always get along.

Hello to my wonderfully adventurous, octogenarian parents...I hope I am just as willing to blast off on an adventure as they are at that age...

Hello to quiet minutes in the midst of a busy day.

Hello and thank you to whomever invented AC. Wow this week was hot, hot, hot and I would be totally wilted without a little air cooling!

Hello to friendships between young and old and across the generations. We have so much to learn from you.

Hello to true love.  Here's Rosie with her main man, Jim.

Have a beautiful week and hope you find a moment to share with someone you love in the midst of it all.

Hope you have a great week and hpw are you keeping cool?

xxoo Jen

the summer is melting away...

Hello Monday.

the summer feels as if it is melting away...rolling past me, not at warp speed like the rest of the year, but at a pace that is all it's own...

And I like it best when it feels like the days when I was a kid. 

When there was less to worry about, and time to daydream.

And I've been driving my old wagon a ton...

(we took it out to Wisner Road to shoot it for a retro love piece I am working on for FOLK Magazine...stay tuned on that)

Cool quiet mornings when it feels like the day is looming large and long, and sticky afternoons where you've run out of energy and all the grand plans for the day become hazy and loose.

Peaceful evenings with no real bed times and the promise of the next day.

 

...hello working only 3 days a week for a few weeks...ahhh....

...hello cleaning out the closets and starting lots of house projects that have been on the to do list for months, nay years!

...hello ice cream for breakfast.

...hello lots of kids around the house.

...hello bare feet.

...hello sunshiney, long days that lead to firefly evenings.

...hello summer and move just a wee bit slower please.

How is your summer going? 

xxoo Jen