Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes! Also, thank you so much for receiving yesterday’s little giveaway so enthusiastically! I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who likes to read instructional manuals.
Speaking of following instructions…
One of the few times I even looked at my camera while in Lake Tahoe last week was mid-morning during a snow storm. The sky was dark and snow swirled through the air, giving everything a soft, grainy look. I told the boys to play in front of the bay window a bit while I took pictures of them, knowing the weak back light would (fingers crossed) turn them into old fashioned silhouettes in front of falling snow. Eat your heart out, Crane & Co.
Young, gentle faces. Snow flurries. Sweet grins and, maybe, a hug between brothers. As I told them to look at each other and smile, I imagined a softly faded photograph and thick, white card stock with discrete black lettering quoting a passage from Dickens or Tennyson. Mikey told me he had a better idea.
This was it.
I am totally with Mikey on this one! Love it. Note to self: Don’t forget to take picture and make Christmas cards.
hahahah I love it!
This cracks me up… I personally would love nothing more than to get a Christmas card like this in the mail. You’ve got to love little boys! :)
Good times, good times … :)
very sweet. they’re profiles are identical! there is a beautiful symmetry there…
That is really funny! I hope this is the picture that you really use. I love getting cards with funny pictures of peoples kids. It seems so much more real.
And I know this is completely stupid and I should keep this to myself, but I still laugh about that post you wrote a long time ago about the lost Christmas cards. I don’t know why that particular post has stuck with me for so long, but I often wonder if you ever found those cards. I think I just like the idea that I’m not the only person in the world who does things like that.
I still haven’t found those cards!!
Hahaha! Mikey is a genius.
That is the perfect Christmas card! Its on I would keep… Now that we have Facebook, people don’t need a yearly photo reminder that everyone else’s lives are more perfect than their own… ;)
This. Is. Great. Funny, profound and beautiful!
It’s Punch and Judy! What a sweet photo. :)
I am indeed, eating my heart out! Congratulations from your friends at Crane. Gotta love the Little Knuckleheads…
Best regards,
Peter Hopkins
This is brilliant, so very boy. I like that kid.
Too funny! I have two boys and a Michael of my own, I can see a photo like this in our future.
i love it! We still can’t decide what to do…
ps-cant get your messages on FB..weird
Adorable! I am totally obsessed with silhouetting old school style, but capturing it in real life is brilliant!
:)