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Consider the Lilies
July 07, 2023 -
Consider the Lilies “In the morning Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait exp...
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He Who Promised is Faithful
May 28, 2023 -
For He Who Promised is Faithful - Hebrews 10:23 “Your words feel meaningless” - those thoughts along with so many oth...
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New Every Morning
March 10, 2023 -
New every morning... "I literally prayed for this view." March 9th around sunset to March 10th at sunrise...such a co...
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Find God Beautiful
December 12, 2022 -
"Unless we honestly find God to be beautiful or enjoyable we will have nothing worth saying to the people around us. Unt...
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You Are My Strength
October 27, 2022 -
From Psalms 18 and the tug in my heart to take a quick detour on the way to work this morning. I love you, Lord; you...
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Faith
October 04, 2022 -
Faith - "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." - Hebrews 11:1 My Faceb...
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Power When We Worship
July 30, 2022 -
There is power when we worship!! These photos showed up in my Facebook memories from a couple of years ago. The sun had...
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Carry Each Other's Burdens
July 18, 2022 -
"Carry each other's burdens... - Galatians 6:2 Rainbows are my absolute favorite. I love seeing them in the sky or in...
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Like the Dew...
July 15, 2022 -
"But his favor is like dew on the grass" - Proverbs 19:12 My daily Bible reading this morning finished with this Prover...
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Starting Over
July 11, 2022 -
Starting Over It's been over 2 years, March 6, 2020 actually, since the last time I’ve shared a “blog post”. I had no...
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Always Enough
March 06, 2020 -
Always Enough "My favorite of the night...the bottom of the photo is a mess with debris...life is messy. The sky ac...
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True Value
February 24, 2020 -
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding...
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Confessions of a Coffee Roaster
January 09, 2020 -
So I've started this new thing as a part time coffee roaster. Part time nurse, photographer, coffee roaster. I like dive...
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You Have Taken Account of My Wanderings
January 04, 2020 -
"You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in your bottle." - Psalms 57:8 I love the imagery David uses her...
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Here's to 2020
December 31, 2019 -
"I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it...
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As A Man Speaks With His Friend...
December 03, 2019 -
I decided last night this had to be my waterfall Wednesday for today. We discussed in Sunday School class the Israelites...
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Weekly Highlight: Sunset Over Mobile Street
February 20, 2018 -
Sunset Over Mobile Street Most of the time, shots are carefully planned. I know the location I'm wanting to shoot, th...
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Monday Highlight: Experience is the True Value
February 12, 2018 -
Experience is the True Value Fresh air is fabulous. I've tried to instill in my kiddos the same appreciation for the...
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Weekly Highlight...Always Go: Beauty Awaits
February 05, 2018 -
Always Go: Beauty Awaits This week I chose to highlight a favorite taken this week that we almost missed out on. My k...
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Monday Highlight: Finding Your Peace
January 29, 2018 -
Finding Your Peace Welcome to the Shoals...love it! The TVA trail is a local favorite of mine. There are actually qui...
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End of the Favs: Winter Reset
January 21, 2018 -
This is the end of the favorites blog....posting a day early because Monday starts a new trend. I'm resetting things thi...
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Weekly Favs: January Week 2
January 17, 2018 -
Cold temps and prepping for spring both in studio and prepping for all these births that have signed up:) I love birth p...
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Weekly Favs...First week of January!!!
January 09, 2018 -
The first week of January was pretty brutal for north Alabama. I think we had an entire week where it never got above fr...
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End of December Favs :)
January 08, 2018 -
Favorites from the end of December...The end of December up until about March, life slows down a bit. No more ball til s...
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Weekly Favs: December Week 2
December 26, 2017 -
A week late on week 2...I'll post last weeks favorites tomorrow:):) Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! What a great we...
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Weekly Favs: December Week 1
December 12, 2017 -
What a fabulous week in photos:):):)
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Weekly Favs: November Week 5, Tree Farm Mini Sessions
December 03, 2017 -
Mini Sessions...I am definitely not a fan. They stress me out. Being a mom of 5, I cannot imagine the stress of prepayin...
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Weekly Favorites: November Week Four
November 29, 2017 -
November hasn't been the easiest of months physically, and a more chaos than normal has been the norm it seems. The phys...
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Favorites: The First two Weeks of November :)
November 16, 2017 -
A little late...but here are the favorites from the first two weeks of November. It hasn't quite gone according to plann...
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October Favorites: Births, Landscapes, Portraits, Lifestyle...life :)
November 11, 2017 -
So I'm going to start back to weekly favorites...Monday will be two weeks of November, then every week. There are just w...
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September favs (birth, maternity, landscapes, seniors, NICU)
September 29, 2017 -
Goals....after this month's post, it's back to weekly favs...there are just too many to narrow down each month!!! Here's...
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Birth Photography...Where It Started to Where It Is Now
September 18, 2017 -
Birth Photography...one of my passions. I fell in love 3 years ago as I photographed my own baby boy shortly after birth...
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August Favs :)
September 06, 2017 -
I've been slightly quiet in my posts over the last few days...two of my favorite quotes... "With an eye made quiet by t...
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July Favs :)
August 01, 2017 -
"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things" - Claude Monet...true story. This has been a great month:)
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Weekly Favs...Week 20/52
May 22, 2017 -
This week, this month...when everything with the school year comes to a close. I've photographed quite a spectrum of lif...
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A Month of Favs :)
May 19, 2017 -
It's been a month since the last post. I should have posted Monday, but well...it's the middle of May. EVERYTHING seems...
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Havasu Falls...Supai, Arizona
April 17, 2017 -
If I have a lot to say, more like if I have a lot that I feel, I always start out with "I struggle for words". This time...
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Weekly Favs...11/52
March 21, 2017 -
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” - Confucius
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Weekly Favs...10/52
March 13, 2017 -
Love what I do!!! So many different experiences photographed this week and I enjoyed every moment:) I only posted two...
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Weekly Favs...week 9/52
March 06, 2017 -
"Ask yourself, "Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?" Remember: Every coincidence is...
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Weekly Favs...Week 7/52
February 20, 2017 -
Weekly Favs...Week 7/52:)
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Weekly Favs...6/52
February 13, 2017 -
Just a few for this week:) May everyone have a fabulous week!!! my crew minus the oldest boy who was taking his ACT...
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Weekly Favs...5/52
February 06, 2017 -
This is definitely a diverse set of images...unless you know anything about me. Then you would know these images represe...
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A New Year...January Weeks 1-4
January 26, 2017 -
"There is divine beauty in learning...To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others...
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Shell's Christmas Tree Farm 2014
December 13, 2014 -
Our Shell’s experience…fabulous! Way too much to include in just an album so the rare blog it is... My family and I hav...
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Baby Joseph :)
May 07, 2014 -
I've written and I've erased...written and erased...and its been an eternity since I've written anything anyway. I'm jus...
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"From this Moment On"
November 06, 2013 -
"From This Moment On"...Heath did such a beautiful job singing this song at my father-in-law's "Pop's" wedding and I cou...
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"These are the flowers that fly and all but sing" -Robert Frost
July 08, 2013 -
So thankful for the time I was able to spend with my kids and friends last night. It wasn't suppose to be that way but a...
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4th of July
July 05, 2013 -
I can't sleep!!! Call it being a night shifter... taking a nap on this rainy post 4th of July day (which I totally shoul...
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Love this Little Plaid Family :)
May 06, 2013 -
How do you spend a rainy Monday???? You spend it catching up on photo edits. I can not believe these pictures were taken...
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Where it all started. . .
April 19, 2013 -
This is where it all started... my children:) Love everything about them... Clayton being such a great big brother and h...
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Sumner Kiddos part 1 :)
April 04, 2013 -
Definitely not the ideal situations for a family photo shoot at the beach. It was cold... like lows in the upper 30's co...
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The Perfect Photo
April 04, 2013 -
Saw this quote the other day and made me think of my kids. I attempted family photos of kiddos and wanted perfection......
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The Importance of a Photograph
March 30, 2013 -
Welcome to the almost complete new look of Photography by H. Sumner. In the words of a friend, it's "slammin". Thanks so...
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