Sunday morning

So on my way back from the mailbox to fetch the Sunday newspaper last Sunday I found my dog, Sadie, sitting amongst the dandelions along the lane. Most everything is a photo op for me.

Farmers in the field

I love this time of year. The grass is green again, the flowering trees are in full bloom and the farmers are planting the crops. Aahhh, spring!

Know where your food comes from

I'm hoping to do some baking this weekend for the Sisters of Providence bake sale next Saturday at the Earth Day festival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, so I stopped and bought two dozen brown eggs from a family on S.R. 246 today.

I've seen the "brown eggs" sign in the yard many times, but never stopped until today. I'm so glad I did.

Mr. Horton was in the yard when I stopped. As I was getting out of my car I asked, "How much are your eggs?"

He said, "$14 a dozen."

I said, "Are you serious?!"

He said, "No. They're $2 a dozen. We have some chicks that are hatching right now, do you wanna see 'em?"

I said, "Sure, can I bring my camera?"

And as you can see by the pictures it was really cool. There are three or four different breeds of chicks hatching there in the first two photos.

When I asked about the small, speckled eggs on the table behind us he told me they were Quayle eggs. (That's the third photo.) Which led us over to the Quayle chicks in a cage similar to the one my 4-H rabbits were in when I was a kid. The bigger Quayle were 16 days old and the smaller ones were only several days old.

By that time, Ms. Reed had placed my eggs on my car and was working in the backyard. I gave her my money and during the few minutes the three of us continued to talk I told her what I was going to do with the eggs. She said she used to work out at Saint Mary's and that her daughter went to Woods Day Care/Pre-school there as a child. Small world.

"We'll have to try to make it out there next weekend," she said genuinely.

I hope they do.

Ryan and Laura

Laura and Ryan Brown will celebrate their first wedding anniversary soon. Their engagement portrait session was fun because they seemed to just enjoy their time together while amazing pictures were being made. Great memories of fun times!

T's senior portraits

Congratulations to Tiera Davis who will graduate from Sullivan High School very soon! We had a lot of fun with her senior portraits taken at Fowler Park. I'm so lucky for the opportunity to capture her fun spirit. Tiera enjoys life to the fullest and isn't afraid to experience new things. Best wishes to her always!