Today I began going through my archives to see if I could find anything worth posting. Most of my shooting over the past few months has been of mundane family stuff - my older son's swim meets (he's in the bottom lane), my younger son's birthday party, Cub Scout functions, etc.  

I did manage to find some stuff eventually.  Unfortunately, most of it involves more snow.  :)

In January I was asked to take some pictures of an old church in our town that was closing.  Although not a member of that church, I was still sad to see it go.  It had a beautiful old pipe organ that was the centerpiece of the sanctuary.  The caretaker also took me up a rickety old set of stairs to get a shot of the incredible stained-glass window.  This window has always been kept illuminated at night.  The church is located in the center of our town, at the end of a bridge, and I've always thought of the lighted window as a beacon for those crossing the bridge.  I was pleased to see that despite the closing, the church has left the electricity on, and the beacon still shines at night.

Back at my house, the deep snow covered all of my beloved gardens.  This bench that in summer is my respite from digging in the dirt and my perch from which to bird-watch, now sported a blanket of white.  Even the home of my little birdy friends had succumbed to the frozen weather.  

But the snow wasn't all bad.  My little one spent a rare sunny afternoon playing around in the backyard.  I just love his littlesquinchy face!

And speaking of faces, I decided that I wanted portraits of each of my boys which represented their personalities at their current ages.  My older one is eight now, and full of all of that I'm-so-much-smarter-than-my-parents condescension.  Yeah, that's him.  Then there's the little one.  He's all of four, and he's the biggest imp in the history of impness.  But I wouldn't have them any other way.

So there you have it - my 2007 so far.  I hope you can find something in there that you like.