When you’ve been blogging as long as I have (nine years!) you tend to have certain favorite posts that you like to revisit.   I figure that if I enjoy going back and reading those old posts, you might enjoy them too and so two or three times a month, I’m going to start posting things from The Archives–either from Sarah’s page or from Smithellaneous…

After leaving the restaurant in downtown Manteo where we took the wedding shots I posted last Wednesday,  we drove just a couple blocks and got out near the water.  It was such a beautifully blue day, a perfect setting for a certain bride and her certain husband. I must say it’s a good thing that the Public Display of Affection Police were not afoot because…

Some of you who have been hanging around here a while may remember that in late 2002,  shortly before Sarah was admitted to Duke for her bone marrow transplant, we recorded a CD called, “Like A Blanket: Songs of Hope For Hurting Hearts.” …

Late Friday afternoon as Steve and I were taking a bike ride, I made a comment to him about how clean and clear the light looked.  It was a pristine, unseasonably warm evening and the world around us was utterly gorgeous. As we rode along, I realized I hadn’t gone out in a while just to take pictures so when we got back to the…