When I am feeling tired, and I have been lately, I think about the newborns I’ve photographed. They are not lying underneath a hefty burden of 21st century cares yet. They aren’t worried about making ends meet, people pleasing, child rearing, personal growth or daily discipline. They don’t even know how to speak or count. They lay their perfect little heads down to sleep and, I hope, dream the loveliest little butterflies of dreams. I am not world-worry when I see their faces, but renewed. I look at each one and pray for safe-keeping and love throughout their lives. Here are a mere few favorites.

“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” — Carrie Snow

“My mother told me to follow my dreams, so I took a nap.” — Unknown

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.” — Rita Rudner

“In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.” – Steven Kloves

“When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.” –Salvador Dali

“A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.” – Walt Disney

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We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs newborns and families, special events and portraits  of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.

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