Last year about this time was one of the first visits by the Cowboy .. to Wisconsin.   

Well, since I had met him anyway.

This year’s Horse Show at the JB Ranch in Fort Atkinson was another return trip for some more fun/work.  This year, we were lucky to have most of the kids along.

So did our friends ..

Wednesday was day one of a three day show and the Cowboy’s first day back in town this week.  Been a busy week for us, but a fun one too.

And so nice to finally meet Carter … A & E.

There are few season so brightly colored when it comes to food .. as summer.

Watermelon is one of those things, when the kids are around we cannot seem to keep enough of in the house.  Or on a plate on the porch …

Fresh flowers always for the dining room table ..

Ripe tomatoes on the vine out the back door .. 

And an ice cold beverage .. perhaps like one of these that I couldn’t seem to get a friend to share this past week.

It was the perfect day for a photo shoot ..

.. Few more shadows than I might have liked or know yet what to do with, the amateur photographer I am.  But the temperature, for a late summer day was just right.  And most importantly, everyone, all 18 of them, could be there.

Spent time taking this past week taking photos for a dear friend from our younger years and her beautiful family … as they face some pretty big life challenges.

It truly is an honor that people allow you into some of the most wonderful, heartfelt, intimate times in their lives in order to take a photo, or tell a story ..