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I just wanted to share with you a blog I started up! Welcome to…. www.joyfulspiritphotography.blogspot.com   Go take a look!  I will be sharing my past and present photos as well as my experiences in learning this new hobby! God bless!

  It’s been quite a winter!!  A snowstorm hit our valley, which the news called “The Arctic Blast”!  Well, it was quite a Blast!!  We haven’t had snow like this in YEARS!  But this was much more extreme than the last one we had!  Let’s just say we had 2 feet of snow!!! I was ecstatic!!!  I’ve always wanted to have snow like this during Christmas…especially as I child!  I would daydream of it every time I heard “Sleigh Ride”!   “It’ll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives” ~~~~~~~~~~ Well, there was no sleigh ride, but my dad and I got to take a walk to the grocery store, since we were snowed in.   What an adventure!  Doing this with my dad made me think of the stories he told us about when he was a little boy.  My dad lived in the good old days, the 1930’s.  He always told us that there was no such thing as school closures when it snowed.  They would just walk to school, like any other...

This last Thursday, some friends and I went hiking at Multnomah Falls. That was an experience I wanted to take. Even though it was really hard hiking up those hills and trying not to fall off the cliff....I did enjoy the time I got to take these pictures. I also got to spend sometime with a new friend, since she and I were the "slow" ones. A scene from the area we were having lunch, before the hike. Brian P. chatting away with Amy, Mrs. Wiltbank and David Charlyn waiting to meet a friend she met on HSA. Melissa was my hiking buddy. She is Charlyn's cousin. On this trip, I attempted photography, which is something I'm learning. I like how some of them turned out. Natural light is the best when taking a picture. I will name this picture "YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT?" Those were the exact words out of my mouth when I saw that we had to walk across the path of rocks, which wasn't too far off of falling!! I'm not a big fan of heights, but I got throug...