We cannot gather these days. Covid-19 has rattled our planet and right now, it is alternately culturally fascinating and personally terrifying. We are all trying to make the best of it. I’ve found that it’s easier for some, based on occupation or temperament, or both. Ryan and I hope that each of you is playing it smart, listening to voices of reason and taking counsel from doctors and the CDC.

The good news is that the outdoors are still a room we can enter and it’s a big one. If you can distance yourselves appropriately (6 feet, folks and why not follow the rules?!) and still get out to walk and hike, I hope you will. Following are some images of our beloved clients and friends in Mother Nature, created by Father God. If you can, go out and take the air.

“Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
― Mary Oliver

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We are nature.
Our bodies carry its swimming waters.
We are made of the soil
and eat the plants that grow from it.
From dust to dust
we come and go.

Each time I bring
my hands to my heart
in prayer,
flowing my body with my breath,
it is devotional,
a dance with the earth
and of the earth.

I dance with every tree,
sway with the wind,
bloom with every flower
in my being.

My breath,
Mother Earth,
is yours.

—the whole planet is in me”
― Ashley Asti, Yoga Heartsongs

“Mother Nature is calling you,
To embrace with her green hue!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

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“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”
― Cristen Rodgers

“May you all wander and explore mother nature so that one day when you look back you have so much in your heart to tell…real stories to tell to your kids instead fake stories or giving them tablets or phones – just random thoughts ”
― Guru Z S Gill

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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, engagements and weddings, brides, and 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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