Melanie Swan Photo

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I love the camera because it gives the ability to preserve the beauty of life. As I look through old albums that belonged to my grandparents, and my own wedding album, I am filled with delight and a deep thankfulness for what I hold in my hands. Through those images I am able to participate in the life, love, joy, and even the grief and sadness, of my family. This is priceless to me. I know that it is also priceless to my clients.

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valentine weekend

Monday, February 16, 2009

Well happy Valentine’s Day….a bit late! To be extremely truthful, I really don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. It isn’t that I don’t like it, and obviously I have no problem with love!! It has just never been a big day in my book. No real reason. But, as it turns out, I DID kind of do something for Valentine’s Day this year in a round about way. Rich had a four day weekend thanks to President’s Day today, so on Thursday night we struck out for the beach. Ft. Rucker is only about an hour and a half from the Florida coast, so we wanted to take advantage of it while we could. We rented a condo on the 7th floor of a building right on the beach! It had a great balcony that stretched from the bedroom to the living room, and it provided a fabulous view! We slept with the door to the balcony open at night and listened to the waves (and we could even watch the waves while lying in bed!). As a matter of fact, I’m not sure that the balcony doors were ever shut while we were there!

Rich had some studying to do, so while he sat on the balcony with his books, I explored the beach below and caught a couple of chick flicks on HBO. Of course, we did spend some time together too! We planned to go out for dinner on Saturday night, but as it happens, we both woke up sick that morning!! Neither of us felt like doing a darn thing, so we didn’t. I took a hot bath, Rich did some reading, we watched another movie, and we went through a couple boxes of Puffs Plus! We did still need to eat, and the idea of someone bringing us dinner was pleasant, so we ordered pizza. When we went to Papajohns.com we discovered that they were making heart-shaped pizzas! So corney as it was, we ordered one!!! Pair that with the bottle of Martini & Rossi Asti we brought with us, and we had quite the Valentine’s Day feast (okay, not really, but we didn’t care)!

All in all, the weekend was a good one. A bit rainy…..yes, and filled with a little too much Kleenex…..yes. But, it was sweet time spent with my honey! He dropped me off in Birmingham today and I was really sad to watch him drive away.I’ll spend a few days here with a friend before I wing my way back home to Texas. And then, in another month, I plan to welcome Rich home with another bottle of Asti…. minus the Kleenex!