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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle

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Welcome to the happiest circle in the world this New Year’s Day,
the circle of life, love and family.
Happy New Year to everyone.

Studio 365: Day 340

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Our beautiful five month old granddaughter’s owl hat.
Oh, the joy of being grandpa this weekend.

For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Eye Spy

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inspiration

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There is nothing more inspiring at the moment than seeing
our daughter holding her beautiful little girl.

Studio 365: Day 178

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Some days are just the best, and today is one of those days. We became grandparents for the first time when our daughter gave birth to a beautiful little girl at 9:30 this morning.

On Day 144 you will remember I said I would reveal the pieces I was stretching and wiring so earnestly. This wonderful cross-stitch scene my wife made when she was pregnant with our daughter and after she was born it hung over her crib. Happily it will now be hanging in her own daughter’s nursery in pride of place.

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These pieces, also for the nursery, are images from favourite books that I used to read to her and her brother for years, which I have scanned, printed onto canvas and then stretched onto the small frames. I’m already looking forward to reading them all over again.

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What a great day it has been today. I hope yours has been too.

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Studio 365: Day 53

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And the Oscar goes to…

…our wonderful late parents to whom we gave this golden Oscar to celebrate their Golden Wedding in 1986. What a special day that was. Lovely to remember them on thechangingpalette on Oscar Day and particularly my mothers advice to always “Count your blessings.”

Rule of Thirds applied.

The Best Father’s Day Card Ever

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Can there be a better Father’s Day card than the one I received from my son today,
as I also remember my father?

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Happy Father’s Day to all the other lucky dad’s out there…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

…three generations, two pipes, one family…

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…this old snapshot of me with my father and grandfather could easily have also been my submission to the Daily Prompt:Heroic

Weekly Photo Challenge: One plus One

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…Spending Christmas at our daughter and future son-in-law’s. It seems like only yesterday she was blowing out that candle on her first birthday. That was her looking over to Black Tusk on Whistler Mountain in the summer: http://wp.me/p3gSod-nn. “You’ve come a long way baby” as the saying goes. Love you…Dad xxx…