“Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.”~Doug Dorst

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying;

jumping in

or 

climbing down, 

a direct approach

or a delay,

joyful

or miserable,

a spirit of adventure,

or

god help me,

get this thing over with.

~Kristin Armstrong

Rock wall climbing with the boys.

Carabiners, 2014. 

"The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by." ~Robert Brault

"Children 

have neither past 

nor future; 

they enjoy the 

present, 

which very few of us 

do."

~Jean de la Bruyere

A weekend in NYC with my boys.

January 2013

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." ~Tom Stoppard

Meeting our new nephew

for the very first time.

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."
~Charles Schulz

"Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything." ~Giacomo Leopardi

"To do 
nothing 
is sometimes 
a good remedy."
~Hippocrates

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."~Eudora Welty

"I think 
the best pictures 
are often on the edges of 
any situation,
I don't find photographing the situation 
nearly as interesting 
as photographing 
the edges. "

~William Albert Allard

Black and White Photography
by Joanna Vaughan