Comments on: A Wedding

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:41:06 +0000

cpa3485: So many readers seem to have children getting married. Good luck to you and your family as the wedding approaches!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:40:03 +0000

Joe: My experience with the wedding was so smooth and easy that I wonder what all the fuss was about.

But then I have to remember that Hannah and Jason did all the heavy lifting and organizing so we could relax.

What nice kids!

Good luck in October!!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:38:41 +0000

Evan: thanks!

irondad: The Web certainly makes it possible to create a community across great distances.

I appreciate your warm sentiments. And congratulations on the approach of geezerdom, I mean grandfatherdom. *grin*

I suppose the number of riding images will decline significantly!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:27 +0000

Sojourner rides: Memory is a powerful part of living. And for me so much of it is made up of images. For others I know it is aromas and fragrances and sounds. But I keep seeing things…

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:23:50 +0000

Beautiful, Steve! I'll be doing the same in October with my elder daughter, and I'm nowhere near ready emotionally.

- Joe at Scootin' da Valley

By: irondad

irondad — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:24:24 +0000

I can only echo the warm thoughts and well wishes already proffered by others. Despite that, I wanted to be sure to be present in the crowd!

My daughter is our oldest offspring. She is pregant with her first child and our first grandchild. The photographic skills you are inspiring me to reach for will come in handy.

Tonight I will hoist a beverage in a silent salute to you, Hannah and Jason, and to extended family.

Isn't it funny how it works? Spreading love out over more people doesn't dilute. It somehow makes it all that much stronger. May you and yours experience it to the full.

By: Evan "JabberWokky" E.

Evan "JabberWokky" E. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:38:06 +0000

Congratulations!

By: cpa3485

cpa3485 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:17:34 +0000

Many Congratulations to you and your family. Looks like it was a wonderful and beautiful event. With a possible wedding occurring in my family in a year or so, I am just hoping I can scrape up enough cash to help pay for it.
My best wishes to your daughter and her new husband, not to mention you and your wife as well.

By: Sojourner rides

Sojourner rides — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:17:20 +0000

Steve, the statement about remembering when your daughter was little and you held her…really got to me. How do they grow up so fast?! I imagine you looking at her and seeing that little girl (a scene from the remake of Father of the Bride) in a grown up wedding dress. My daughter is 25. I don’t know how that happened…even as I celebrate…

I like the impressionist pic! It made you a father that day more than a photographer.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:53:57 +0000

tochaman: It's nice to have memories. Part of my obsession with photography and journaling is to hold on to as many as I can. And sort out what has happened. I made a video some years ago about memory and photography's role in them. It's posted on Scooter in the Sticks:

RIDING AND MEMORY.

Hannah and I didn't dance to Alan Parsons but I do remember lifting her over my head when she was a toddler flying around the house calling out "Space Baby". I seem to remember a cartooon of that name.

She would laugh and laugh. I did it until she got too heavy to lift safely in the air like that...