Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother…….So it is written.

I have written before on this blog that I have always struggled to be conventional.  I wrote an entire post called The Misfit on just that subject.  I don’t seem to have the “normal” reverance for hollidays and celebrations.  My own birthday means very little to me. Since the time (way back) when I was a small child I have not thought much about heroes. There are many whom I admire and that I think are wonderful, but they are not my heroes.  Sometimes it seems that everyone who simply does what is considered right,  is labeled a hero.  Still, life without heroes is empty.  My life has never been empty.

My hero has always been my father.  After my father passed away I wrote a piece for my old website to honor him and I called it Heroes.  He has been gone a while now but my hero remains my father.   I didn’t save that article and I usually don’t.  I never want to give myself the crutch of looking back to see the nice things I said about my father.  I never want to have to copy myself in order to remember my father.

I suspect my reasons for honoring my father are much the same as yours.  He gave so much, and asked so little.  He was a steady hand in the often stormy sea that is my life.  He knew the meaning of friendship and family.  He was a teacher of lessons.  He was strong and tough, yet so very gentle and kind.  My father was more than I deserved, and he was just as surely everything that I needed.

I love and miss you Dad and I thank you for a lifetime of lessons and love.

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

Both my mother and father were always great about supporting all of my (as an adult) many photographic endeavors through the years.  Maybe my love of nature as a subject was born when I was small child and a family Sunday ride delivered to me my first glimpses of Horicon Marsh NWR.   I have included an image of Horicon that I have never before shown.  This photo of a Duckweed covered river was made a few years ago and is stark in its simplicity.

Sea of Green

God Bless and Happy Father’s Day to all of you Dads