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Come Wander Along with Me...

I wander...it is simply what I do.  Since I was a young girl, my parent's tried everything to keep me close to home, going to such  measures as to buy me goats.  Though I loved my goats, my heart still  wandered.  

Growing up in rural New Jersey, I was surrounded by dense woods and long stretches of farm land to fuel my imagination.   I felt at home in the arms of the forest and spent many days laying upon the fragrant mossy soil staring up through the filter of leaves... watching the light dance.  It is these experiences that I work to remember.

In adulthood, I discovered the joy of capturing those precious moments, through my camera's lens.  Though the many years in between my youth and the present, I have enjoyed many wonderful adventures and am currently wandering in another people's land.  For the past 10 years I have had the pleasure of living in Europe and learning to look at life in a very different way.   

Through my images and my wanderings, I hope you will enjoy seeing the world around you... in a new way.

So...I invite you to "Come Wander Along with Me..."

The Netherlands…the Stuff of Fairy Tales

Monday, April 27, 2009 at 12:46pm Posted in The Netherlands, Travel

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As a child I dreamed of Holland and it’s picturesque windmills from the stories my mother use to tell.  These descriptive stories were fuel for my young creative mind.

I often imagined the endless rows of multicolored tulip fields, spread out like a tapestry…with wooden shoe clad Dutch children playing to the creaking sound of the wooden windmills as their sails engaged with the wind…Holland in my mind…with it’s endless flat grassy landscape dotted about by happy cows and sheep.

As an adult, I was thrilled to discover my idyllic childhood dreams of the Netherlands were indeed reality.  Wandering about it’s countryside, you do feel as if you have some how stepped into the well weathered pages of long forgotten fairy tale.

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April 27, 2009 - 13:44 Billy Howard - Wonderful! You make the fairy tale come true in your pictures!

April 27, 2009 - 22:20 Karen Zimmerman - I really enjoyed your blog before diving into your slide show! It is so cool that the magic of Holland that your mother's stories ignited in your young imagination withstood the reality of actually being there, experiencing it through your grown-up eyes. I can't believe wooden shoes are still worn (that's magical right there!)and the windmills are of course, so awesome. I love the textured layer you added to some of the images, too...gave it a timeless aspect. Keep it up! I love it. all the best, kz

April 28, 2009 - 12:02 Darren Constantino - Wow! Beautiful. The incredible images in your slide show make me want to go there!

July 12, 2009 - 21:00 Ester Isabella Wright-Bakker - I loved your pictures and as a Dutch citizen living in the US I feel honored because of the way you speak of my country. Looking at your pictures and reading your blog made me home sick in a really good way.... Thanks to Loretta who always tells me about your pictures.

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