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When the subject isn’t the subject

By Anna Sawin

Oh, and a double posting today, because today is the last day to post a photo tip and and enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card at Beyond Megapixels. Did you do it yet? In photographs, you can often tell a story in a different or unexpected way. For example, did you need Will’s…

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Food Friday: Apple-Oat Muffins

By Anna Sawin

All of a sudden it is feeling a lot  like fall, so naturally?  We went apple picking. Even Henry, age 2, can reach the apples on the lowest branches, so it was a successful venture all around. For our first foray into cooking with apples this fall, we decided on apple muffins. I took the…

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Nude Tuesday

By Anna Sawin

Maile Wilson, one of my favorite photographers ever, blogs and previews her work over at Daily Relish. Check it out–beautiful stuff happens there. Maile has begun hosting a fun activity each week, Crapshoot Tuesday. She picks a photo that she might have thrown away for technical imperfections, but saves for what it captured. I love…

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BLT (The L stands for LOVE)

By Anna Sawin

I keep saying summer isn’t over yet, and this sandwich is proof. I dined on this delicious BLT Saturday night for dinner during a little weekend getaway, and, well, YUM. That’s a yellow Brandywine tomato, picked that morning from my yard. And bacon. Yum. Thank you to my lovely hosts and my wonderful traveling companion!…

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Food Friday: Summer Spaghetti

By Anna Sawin

Well, the calendar may be pointing to fall, but the tomatoes, they keep on coming. Tonight we’re going to have a summer favorite, Summer Spaghetti, also known in our house as Jess’ mom’s summer pasta. Or just tomato-basil pasta. Now, I’m not sure that I make it just like anyone in Jess’s family—in fact I…

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Not sleeping like a baby

By Anna Sawin

This sweet newborn defied the odds during our photo shoot last week, and stayed awake to be ABSOLUTELY sure he didn’t miss a thing. (A good trait to have, since he is the third child in this family–he needs to keep up!) Have you ever seen such an alert, bright-eyed baby, just ten days old?…

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Next thing you know he’ll be borrowing the car

By Anna Sawin

Year two of nursery school, day one, and as you can see, he was ready to say goodbye before he even got in the door. How does it all go so fast? It doesn’t help that I held a delicious newborn yesterday, either. Talk about getting slapped around by karma. (Pictures to come. He is…

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Eight years ago today

By Anna Sawin

Happy anniversary, love.

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Food Friday: Homemade Cream of Tomato Soup

By Anna Sawin

I have an embarrassment of tomatoes to work through right now. Our garden is plentiful, plus we have some from the farm where we get our vegetables weekly. Then this past week I helped harvest at a farm specializing in heirloom tomatoes, and I came home with with pounds and pounds and pounds of gorgeous…

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What happens when you leave your children with me

By Anna Sawin

It all started so innocently. They wanted to play house with a giant box that we keep in the basement for cabin fevery winter days. We decided painting it with finger paints and handprints would be a great idea. Then we ran out of finger paint, so they continued work on their color palette with…

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