Grandparents: The people who replace your parents

My son loves his grandparents.  Plain and Simple.  I do too,  for that matter.  They are wonderful people who have taught him so much.  He only has one set, my parents both passed away so I guess that is why I feel strongly about him spending time with them.  My husband swears they are not the same people who raised him, they have been replaced by some sort of aliens who give him anything he wants!  He says, "I don't know who they are, but they are not the same people who raised me."  It is probably true, they would of never allowed my hubby to DUMP the toy box out and string toys from one end of the house to the other or eat ice cream in living room.  I guess that is why grandparenting is so much fun, you don't get the blame for spoiling the child, the parent do. How many times have you heard, "his grandparents spoil him so much and let him do whatever he wants"?

 Never.

Never ever.

Nope, not ever.

They teach him so much, spend time with him, let him roll around in the sand, dig in the dirt, and be a little boy and I am thankful for that.    I did this project on Easter Sunday, it took like 30 minutes and they will have these forever.

This is my favorite.

3 Generations. Nana, Papaw, Daddy and J
 Jordan has pollen all over his hands from playing with the spring blooms.

I had a good relationship with my grandparents, I was always at their house and learned a lot from them and have many fond memories of them.  I was 12 when they passed away (3 weeks apart) and to he honest it did leave a void in life, I missed them terribly and still do.  I do not have one picture of myself with them, not one, so I wanted to do this for them and him.  Hubby also loved his grandmothers, he lived right next door to one, so needless to say he was always at her house, he still speaks frequently of them, so this project was close to both our hearts.

Until next time.

Goodbye to Clementine and Hello to Spring

My love affair has ended, it was intense and emotional, but I had to say Goodbye to Clementine.  Clementine (the 1966 Chevy Truck I found in my FIL's pasture) has been sold for restoration. The county in which I live is going to start adding the value of unregistered cars/trucks to property taxes so my FIL decided to let her go, as well a "Buck" the 1976 Chevy Truck he had.   While I am happy she will find new life, I am sad my muse is leaving.  I did go over and say Goodbye and take some final shots of her before she went on to her new life.    I got my first commissioned piece from her, a Chevy Lover from Idaho commissioned a 24x36 Black and White portrait of her.  It was beautiful, and he was so happy with it.  I must admit I was very nervous about it, but it came out wonderful and is now hanging in his office.  I am currently on the hunt for a new muse, still love the old "rustic" cars and trucks, but also find myself looking at old barns and buildings that have been vacated.  I may do a project of the older, vacated architecture in the county I live in.  I love old wood barns, not many people build those anymore, they favor tin.  Which I guess is economical but I love the look of a wood barn.

Now that Spring is attempting to come to NC.  I got to photograph some people as well, Maggie a very cute, happy little girl needed some pictures done. I have been waiting patiently for a little girl to come along so I could do something I have always wanted to do, a tea party!  I love tea sets, well dishes in general.  My BFF, calls me a Dish Whore, because I just love China.  If I get anymore sets of China I am going to need a support group. Seriously, I am not even joking.

They came out so good, and her Mom loved them and so did I.  Maggie had a great time, and was so good with my tea set.  I must admit I was nervous about letting her use it.  I explained how important this set was to me, because my mother gave it to me and she was so very careful with it.  

My son also needed some updated pictures and I love to do them in Spring or in Fall.  Last week for some reason, I decided to take a different way home, not sure why, change of scenery I guess and I found this:

I knew then this was where I wanted to do it.  I have no idea what it is, don't ask, all I know is it is pretty. Thankfully, my SIL knows the owner's DIL of said fields and asked permission for me (sometimes it pays to marry into a large family!).  It is quite fragile so I promised not trample down the middle and stay as close to the edge and they were beautiful.  

J was so good, he loved the seed pods.  He was good about staying on the path as well. 

We have a Easter Egg hunt this afternoon so I better wrap this up.  Until next time and I hope you have wonderful Spring!