happy birthday, lil brother

what better way to celebrate my brother's eighteenth birthday and graduation than to post a collection of pictures from the weekend? all candid. he is all unknowing. i am so delighted to finally have some good pictures of him.
i was going to photoshop a girl into this next one ;)




this reminds me of when he was little, because he looks so sweet?

oh, my. Happy Birthday, Sam. I hope you won't ever find these pictures because I know you'd get rid of them.

reality

sometimes you are trapped.
sometimes you are set free.
and sometimes you must step out into an unknown world.

a pile of shoes.

a good friend sent me a list of things to photograph. including a pile of shoes. which i love. shoe quotes: if the shoe fits, wear it. the shoe that fits one person pinches another. I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of his shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also (John Bunyan). if the shoe fits, it's too expensive. funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies (Levende Waters).

my sister. my shoes.

and this is only the beginning

Hello.
Welcome.
These are a few of my favorite things.
in pictures.