Category Archives: personal

I’m back!

Well, it has been a loooooooong time! But I do have a very good excuse! A lot has happened since my last post. Only a couple of weeks after posting about my mini sessions, I landed myself in the hospital with pre-term labor just shy of 27 weeks. It was very scary. Luckily, the doctors...

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our big, wonderful news!

For those of you who don’t know, Mr. Swan and I are expecting!!! Yes, it is true! There is a baby Swan swimming around, growing, getter stronger every day (I know because I’m the one he kicks!) and preparing to enter the world sometime in January. Most likely late January, but my understanding is that...

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a new home!

Well, we did it. We have officially moved! Let me tell you, it was a loooooong time in coming. At the end of October, Rich and I unpacked in a new city just outside of San Antonio, Texas. That’s right. We aren’t actually in the city. We’re country folk now.If I’m lucky, every now and...

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a necessary update, a few thoughts, and a promise of images….

Friends – I’ve been a gone a long time here, mostly for reasons too numerous to name. BUT, all is well. No worries on that front! You may think my absence here means I haven’t been shooting, but you’re mistaken!! My cameras, lenses, flashes, etc. have remained my close friends and traveling companions throughout the...

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my prayer

This was the Collect for the Day on the first Sunday after Epiphany. I realize that was a while back, but I’ve had it sitting on my desktop as a reminder…. It has been my prayer of late. “Oh Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people who call upon thee;...

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