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Jessica Strickland Photography

making.sense.of.it.all

Yesterday, I spent the day in beautiful Savannah, Georgia….photographing one of my favorite and most faithful families! That session will be up after all the posts I am behind on. So, anyway, I’m headed home on the second leg of my trip, from Charlotte to Home….and sort of in a tired daze, listening to my Ipod, my eyes fixed on the open blue sky just outside my window to the world. Suddenly, it occurs to me…this is exactly what Mark is talking about!! Mark always tells me that one of his favorite things in the world is taking off and busting above the clouds, life & madness that exists on the earth into that amazing, beautiful, peaceful blue existence that seems to extend into eternity and where the sun never stops shining. It’s a place where the stress, chaos, busy lifestyles, crazy work lives, kid craziness, deadlines, fighting, politics, traffic jams, wars, health trouble, and general MADNESS that nows seems to define our LIVES manages to FULLY CEASE and PEACE IS THE OVERRIDING THEME. Have you ever noticed that? How when you stare out the window of a plane, you can’t help but notice the PEACEFULNESS that surrounds you outside those windows. It beckons me to think that maybe there is something to it! Maybe there is something we should learn from this intense peacefulness and calm that exists just above our reach. Maybe that should trickle down onto our earth like a healthy rain and flood our lives and allow for us to be OK with welcoming peacefullness into our lives and be OK with saying NO to CHAOS and GENERAL MADNESS that seem to define our lives in today’s world!! Are you with me?? Maybe these are just the words of a girl running a one-man-show business and trying to do her best, but not always having the time or ability to be the best…so often, madness and chaos seem to define her life….but none the less, it was a wonderful, calming feeling and I was trying to absorb every last moment of….. ;)

Happy Tuesday!! :)

annie.&.torrey

I just adore Annie & Torrey! First of all, they are incredibly adorable!! Just LOOK at them!! Oh, I could have photographed them ALL day long!! Then, they were completely willing to do whatever I asked…and that is always soo awesome to be completely trusted by a client!! They are celebrating their 7 year anniversary and they wanted to do a celebratory shoot for the special occasion! I love that!! :) Take a peek at this adorable couple!!

*Note….yes, I changed the borders! Just doing a bit of testing with different borders! :)