A Childhood Memory - June Photography Challenge - Omaha Professional Photographer

June 10th

A Childhood Memory



When I was four my parents surprised me with a bicycle for my birthday.  I was so jazzed!!  I remember my parents teaching me how to ride, the day my training wheels came off, riding double with my little sister, learning to ride one-handed and graduating to no hands!  I also remember my cousin getting her hand stuck in the spokes because she was done riding and I wanted to keep going so she tried to stop the bike- not something I would recommend to anybody. ;)  I also remember busting open my chin and needing stiches from a bike accident. No worries, you can't even see the scar anymore. ;)

I had so much fun on that bike.  It makes me happy to see my children enjoy their bikes as much as I did when I was kid.  What are some of your favorite childhood memories?  I'd love to hear them!

Fruit - June Photography Challenge - Omaha Professional Photographer

June 7th

Fruit

Mmmmmm strawberries!  When I was a child growing up in Illinois I used to help our neighbor, Leo, pick his strawberry patches with my mom and my sister.  The patches were more like fields.  HUGE.  Those strawberries were the yummiest strawberries ever.  They were ripe with sunshine and just burst their sweetness right into your mouth the moment they hit your lips.  My mom used to get on us to make sure that we were picking more than we were eating but Leo always smiled and told us we could have as many as we wanted.  He was a really neat man.  He farmed, played the saxophone, always had something sweet to say to us and he let us run around and play all kinds of imagination games in his barns and old corn bins that children do.  I miss him.

What's your favorite fruit?