sisterly love

sisterly love
Originally uploaded by mandyvan

In the Fall of 2003 my children and I visited the Barn-N-Bunk Farm Market 11 miles from our home, armed with my new Sony MVC-CD500.

The kids had a great time together and I was able to snap some of my favorite photos on this outing. I had to look back at the pictures to remember all this (the point of the photos!) but we took a hayride, decorated cookies, shot apples in a giant slingshot, and got lost a few times in a corn maze.

In said corn maze, I was trailing a few steps behind the kids with the digital camera, my first without a viewfinder, just randomly hitting the shutter button along the way.

Fast forward 5 years later, I am reminiscing through over 17 gigs of photos from 2003 to now and I find the "October 2003" folder. I don't know if it's the 22-inch monitor I was viewing the pictures on (compared to the Mavica's 2.5 inch LCD) or the attention to detail I have developed over time, but there was something in one of the pictures I had not noticed until now.

Just the thought of this brings out emotions I didn't expect to affect me as much as they did. I understand the adage "actions speak louder than words" in a different way. The simple placement of my daughter's hand upon her brother's arm when a stranger is approaching...