ordinary january 25, 26, 27 /February 8, 2014 by Carey

Ordinary life in January. I love them so much.

I french braided her hair for basketball that morning, and for a gymnastics birthday party (that was cancelled due to snow) that afternoon. It was so cute.

She decided that she MUST make a crown with hearts and diamonds. It was really quite remarkable. She's something else.

I shot these with my Nikon D800
Nikon 85mm f1.8
Nikon 50mm 1.4D
Sigma 30mm f1.4

"Only miracle is plain; it is the ordinary that groans with the unutterable weight of glory."
-Robert Farrar Capon

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart,
O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.

I'm a sensitive introvert who finds such beauty in the ordinary, everyday moments in life. I seek light. I'm mesmerized by it. I photograph and share my images in the hopes that you can also be blessed by the beauty I find around me.

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Oh my goodness , this kid worked his tail off this afternoon and evening on homework. I gave him a 20 minute break and he used it to play volleyball with his sister.

Piano practice shadow caught my eye this evening.

Can you imagine coming across this during a time before these geological features were known? What would your response be to the colors and the heat? . . #norrisgeyserbasin #yellowstonenationalpark #getoutdoors #tellon #visitwyoming #iphone7plus #yellowstonepledge #yellowstone #waheway #backcountry #hikemore #goatworthy #nationalparkgeek #findyourpark #neverstopexploring #wandermore #optoutside #amongthewild

Upon first entering the park we came across these female bighorn sheep at a river. . #yellowstonenationalpark #getoutdoors #water_brilliance #tellon #visitwyoming #iphone7plus #yellowstonepledge #yellowstone #waheway #backcountry #hikemore #goatworthy #nationalparkgeek #findyourpark #neverstopexploring #wandermore #optoutside #bighornsheep

Somewhere in the Lamar Valley. If you look closely you will find my peeps in this image. They took their shoes off and crossed to the center of the river as well. The water was so utterly clear.

You don’t realize how dark DARK is until the power is out for 2days and the moon is just a tiny sliver.

You’d think with 50 hours without electricity we would have read a whole lot more than we did. But we did manage to do a little bit.

If you’ll permit another deviation from iPhone only images ... We had piled our things into our tiny 'cabin' at Mammoth Hot Springs, explored the terraces there, and then went on the first drive-exploration toward the Roosevelt area on our first day inside the National Park. We hadn't been driving five minutes and Shawn had just said to the kids, "turn your animal spotting eyes on!" when The Lady shouts, "Coyote! I saw a coyote!" The Boy immediately huffs out a sound of disbelief. I know that Shawn and I both in our minds thought, "yeah right." But Shawn was a good daddy and stopped the car. No one was anywhere near, so he backed up just a bit. "There! See it?" she shouted. I sure didn't. "You don't SEE that!?" The Boy then barks out. He saw it, too, now. Shawn caught the motion and then finally so did I. It was amazing. There on the small hill on the side of the highway in Yellowstone was a coyote, hunting some small rodent. The Lady had seen it pounce just as we'd driven by. It had been unsuccessful for the first several pounces, apparently, because we watched it finally catch its prey. We could hear the squeaks of the thing! It tossed it around for a while before deciding to chow down. The coyote seemed completely unconcerned with us and we sat and watched it for about five minutes until another car finally drove down the highway behind us. The Lady won the First Animal Spotting award. And the camouflage of these animals continues to astound me.

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The whole time I didn't know what to say. The whole time I didn't know whether this was happening for HER or for ME. Was I supposed to DO something with this? Or was I just supposed to be there, to be a calm presence, to listen? Was God trying to speak to my own heart through her words and her wounds? I felt almost panicked, not having time to think through all the options and what the one very right thing to do could be. I wish I could say I chose out of wisdom, but that's not true. I chose out of exasperation. I just tried to listen. To affirm her. To tell her I was sorry. So very sorry that it happened to her and she'd had to live through that.

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ordinary january 25, 26, 27 /February 8, 2014 by Carey

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