Every year I paint a new snow scene on our sliding glass doors for Christmas. One year I wanted to paint a log cabin with a window that my cats Milo and Mazie could look through. They spend a lot of time on the porch that those doors lead to and I didn’t want to take my eyes off them completely. My cat Mazie was outside one day looking at me through the window and saying, “Let me in.” That gave me an idea for a photo. So I crouched down and looked out the window at Justin, who was already taking photos inside some eBay items we were about to sell. I said, “Hey, take a picture of me, please.” It took him a minute to see me, but when he did he laughed, he shook his head and took a picture of me. At first you notice the painting, but you look closer and there I am, looking at you. The following year I painted snowy mountains and I think I got a good one from my brother Jon looking over the mountains. He looked like the abominable snowman in him.
It was my 26th birthday party and to celebrate I went out with some of my good friends to an arcade. My friend Sarah was waving at me through the glass of the ball boy and I thought she looked gorgeous with all the colored balls around her, so what did I do? You guessed it, I took a picture of it. The reflections on the glass panels in the games really added a lot to that image, made it shine.
My grandmother loves her great-grandson Ben. She love to play together in the yard. Ben’s inexhaustible energy sometimes wears her down, so we’ll put in the reclining lawn chair for her. I thought she was adorable the day she was trying to touch her through the chairs to see through the fabric. So I took the photo there. I think it shows how much fun they were having that day together. I especially like my grandmother’s big smile in the photo.
In the park of our city there is an old stone cabin in the middle of the forest. It’s a tiny little house with a wood burning fireplace inside. Nobody lives in this house, so anyone is free to enter. Justin and I were looking around one day and that’s when I saw this creepy man in the window looking at me. But it was just Justin trying to scare me. I took the photo of him. All the stone around the window shows the old age of the house. Now that I have that photo, I’ll be able to remember how creepy that man was.
When my daughter Lily was a baby, her favorite toys were fake keys. She played with them for minutes. Hey, minutes are pretty long for a baby (smiley face) One day I looked into her crib to see if she was still sleeping. She wasn’t, she was playing with her keys again. I knelt by her crib to say. “Go to sleep darling.” That’s when I saw the photo of Lily looking at me through her braces. I love how the colored braces shape her cute little face.
