Guess what worked?  In June, Nate and I scattered pounds and pounds of seed in our freshly plowed field, and planted a full acre of wildflowers.  The kids tromped in the mud behind us, pushing the seed into the freshly tilled soil with their muck boots, and then we sat back to wait.   We wondered if our little seeds could beat the weeds that were clearly racing them neck and neck?   The whole family would go out in the early mornings and pull giant ragweed to give our wildflower meadow a leg up.  And then one morning this week, the whole field burst into bloom!  To celebrate, I did some photos of my baby girl, whose 7th birthday is just around the corner.  We found a flowering vine  growing on the edge of the meadow, and made her a crown.  (Curious?  It’s a groundnut vine; it actually has an edible tuber that was a staple of the Native Americans!)  I’m looking forward to using the meadow in my fall sessions at the Ann Arbor Farm Studio.

After spending day after day photographing everyone’s else sweet babies, I needed a day to photograph mine.  We are renovating a farmhouse on 70 acres, and we got another room done yesterday – yahoo!  (and God bless Kenny Ingle and Ryan Campbell for all their help!)  This room is in the 1880’s section of our house, and we decided to leave it fairly rustic to be true to itself.  The floors are wide plank pine which we weathered grey using steel wool and vinegar.  We found rough plaster under 5 layers of wallpaper and  so we put a finish coat of plaster up, lime washed it, and left it just like that.  The worn out lead-paint trim all was removed, and was replaced with boards from our barn.

I’ve had it in my head to do some ballet photos of this 6 year old love of mine for some time now.  She adores dancing, loves to be active – she would fly if she could.   And she’s growing up – she seems so old in these photos that it hurts my heart to look them.  She made herself a paper crown, borrowed her big sister’s tutu, and before the room filled up with furniture, we made it a ballet studio for a day.

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