And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

"The family.  

We were a strange little band of characters 

trudging through life 

sharing diseases 

and toothpaste, 

coveting one another's desserts, 

hiding shampoo, 

borrowing money, 

locking each other out of our rooms, 

inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, 

loving, 

laughing, 

defending, 

and trying to figure out 

the common thread 

that bound us all 

 together." 

~Erma Bombeck

A Christmas visit from my family

December 2011

“Home is where one starts from.” ~T.S. Eliot

“That pleasure 

which is at once 

the most pure, 

the most elevating 

and the most intense, 

is derived, 

I maintain, 

from the contemplation 

of the 

beautiful.”
 

~Edgar Allan Poe

images taken on a chilly December afternoon.

Chatham, Cape Cod

by: Joanna Vaughan Photography