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If I have a favorite subject for photography, it's my kids. When Phoebe was a baby, I was shooting film, and I'd go once a week to Wal-Mart with a canister or two of film, and an hour later I'd get a stack of prints that would choke a hog. I miss those prints, so nice to hold in the hand, but I can't imagine having to curate as many photos as I take now, much less use chemicals to develop them and paper to print them.
She was pretty darned adorable.
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Our kids' best memories live on a laptop now, and that works fine for us.
How do they amuse themselves when we're in North Dakota, with no television, no computers to speak of; just time and the wind and the grass?
They walk.
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(Note Adventuring Sticks.)
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While we searched, Phoebe and Liam went adventuring on a two-track road. One thing was sure: they wouldn't meet any vehicles.
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When we're traveling, the kids are a seamless unit, turning to each other for fun and solace.
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And when they miss Chet Baker, they find another animal to love, be it hugely pregnant barn cat
or supershiny, supersweet, supersized black Lab.
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And they are Ninjas, as evidenced by this rare action photo.
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