Have you ever heard of the Proust Effect? It’s the phenomenon where a memory, usually a vivid one is triggered by a smell. This happens to me sometimes, often I’d say.

My grandma used to make banana splits for me and my brother so the smell of ripe bananas takes me back to her kitchen on Eight Mile road. African violets in the window, pink rose bushes outside that window, her sliding glass door that let the sun shine in so warm on Callie her domestic shorthair cat that would lay in the wicker rocker in the corner. Or when I smell doublemint gum I remember her larger than life white purse and all the crinkled Kleenex that seemed to accompany her.

I’ve been walking through a parking lot only to be stopped in my tracks, spin around and breathing deep letting the smell enter my body and linger as long as it can, most often times it’s gone as quick as it came. I recently put on a shirt I hadn’t worn in quite a while, only to be completely enveloped in a familiar smell. I’m not sure how it got there, as I was certain the shirt was washed recently, but I was torn between taking it off to preserve it so I could come back for future visits or sitting on the floor with it in my hands, eyes closed and breathing it all in. I did a little of both if I’m being honest.

Have you had this happen? What smells transport you?

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Happy Father’s Day. Dads, you have a very big and important job. I am blessed to know quite a few incredible fathers. My dad has taught me so much from welding and working on cars to how a fight or skin a deer. I’ve been blessed to watch my brother become a father and see how he loves fiercely protects his family, courageously and provides endlessly. Happy dads day. You all deserve the world.

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Giveaway 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Unpopular opinion- I’m not about the Stanley cups! 😜 but I know a bunch of y’all are so I got one, along with some other really cool gifts 🎁 from some awesome local businesses!!

🎁 Prize 🎁
40 oz Stanley Quencher
Hello ☀️ cup from @camilles__crafts__
50$ Gift Certificate from @thebloomingbackyard 💐
Digital Mosaic Dog Print from @threelpress
Earrings from @klaysmithhandmade
🍯 from yours truly 🥰
And an optic scarf (glasses cleaner) from @stephanie_lewis_norwex

Here’s how to enter!
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Go show some love to the other local businesses too! They’ve got some really cool stuff!


Winner to be announced on Friday June 16th at 5pm.
Contest open to local US residents 18 years or older.

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Mom, ma, mum, mommy, maaaaaaaam, MOM.

I’m constantly in awe of the amazing moms in my life. The boo boo kissers, bug squishers, grocery shoppers, dinner makers, laundry folders, house cleaners, and so much more. They do it all, but more than all that other stuff, they have such an important job, helping to raise up the next generation, teaching us how to love, how to grieve, how to be kind and how to get back up when you fall.

I think moms have one of the toughest jobs, to raise the sticky fingered, mess making little humans, only to let them go and hope they stay close.

Happy Mothers Day to ALL the mommas, whether your babies are still babies, mostly grown, in heaven or never made it to you. 💗🌞

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Spring is approaching – even though it may snow on Sunday 🙄🌨️

This is usually the time of year that I start to get restless, I’m so excited and anxious for warmer weather and enjoying the sunshine! But we do have to finish out this season, we have to have the last bits of winter, the last frosts and cold rainy days. Then the sun can shine, the days will be warmer and the flowers can bloom.

We will get there. ☀️

It’s not too late to get your senior sessions scheduled – say that 3x fast 😜

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I watched my brother cut down a big tree this weekend, you know the kind, still standing, had bark on it and still looked like a tree – but something wasn’t right with it.

He made a strategic cut and it was so weak it fell fairly easily. Once it hit the ground it fell apart, split into so many pieces, broken & fractured and then we saw it. The inside of the tree was dead.

The inside was no longer alive, hadn’t been for a while, the outside still looked pretty normal – ya know- tree like 🌳 but it was just standing there, dead. It just hadn’t fallen yet.

I wonder how many things we walk by or share our existence with that seem ok, look ok on the outside but on the inside, that’s another story, the inside is broken, or dead or hollow. All that tree needed was a strategic cut and it fell under its own weight.

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This sweet family 🥹

I was so happy to shoot this spot tonight, golden hour is always so beautiful here. The way the warmth of the sun shines through the trees to illuminate the field provides a perfect backdrop.

The sweet details of a gentle kiss or the way she presses her forehead to his. This is love.

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Woke up to snow this morning, and although it is beautiful I’m reminiscing this past week when the weather was warmer, and the sun was shining. Oh what a difference it makes when you feel the sun on you, when you feel the warmth that you have been missing so much. There’s nothing quite like it.
And yes, the snow is temporary and is pretty but I do much prefer the warmth and the sun.
Glad I got to squeeze this session in while @kamiechester was in town and it was pretty!

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Just me over here loving when my seniors bring their furry, fluffy & feathery besties to their sessions!

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The little forehead wrinkles, the curves of his ear, his tiny toes and his itty bitty fingers. Never will he be this little again.

All the tiny details that change so quickly. Everything is made up of tiny little details ya know, it’s the little things that make up the whole.

He’s precious and tiny and loved.

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2022 was my busiest year yet, thanks to all my amazing clients who have trusted me to capture their special moments.

Let’s see what 2023 has in store!

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