Robin Dodd Photography

Because you can't hand down a CD to the next generation. - Sue Bryce Ain't that the truth...

They say a digital file loses it's value year after year because we forget what's stored on our hard drives, flash drives and CD's. Do we still use those? I am making an album of the girls to send to Africa and I came across my picasa web album where I have stored years and years of photos.  I thought it would be fun to have a post featuring some of the families I have been so lucky to meet and know. I might do this next week too! Throw it back.. Just kidding..

First of all, I cannot believe that I didn't get a beautiful shot of all three girls between  last Friday and Monday when we had this incredible snow because someone, I won't mention any names caught a  man cold, no it wasn't Carlos..and it was a bit distracting. Ha! So I turn to Mariama as she's about to head to Nashville with Shawn and remember.. Last January we took our annual Sunflower photographs on the bridge crossing from Newport Kentucky to downtown Cincinnati, the blue one. I need to learn the name since as of May we will be full time residents of Ohio. What? T hen I get so excited that I force Holly and Grace to dress up after Grace's five hour practice.  Thanks Mom.  I wanted to share with y'all and now I must take to my bed like a good southern gal and nurse MY cold.. Thanks Shine! Ha! P.S. I am seeking dancers for fine art portraiture for my portfolio. My studio  will open in the Cincinnati area this May....

Dear Daughters. I was raised in the 70's, the figure it out yourself generation, learned to drive a stick shift when I was eleven, watched hours of television a week, and drank Boones Farm Strawberry Wine from the bottle when I was seventeen out in the cow pasture parties of Texas. I made straight A's went to a great college, made a lot of mistakes along the way, but am happy to say, I think I turned out pretty good.  However. Now that I am  helping raise you, I feel the need to over communicate my every wish, desire, fear, hope, dream, life lesson, Mike Brady speech, boy talk, learning to drive speech, dating lecture, who's dating before they're 30 speech?, let's watch a TED talk, then meditate and so on... What caused this? How much Natural Calm can a mom drink?  I mean, you don't want to go to a Cheap Trick concert with a boy who drives a Fiero, you've never let a foul word escape your lovely lips,  one out of three of you barely know how to ta...

I can just get it in under the wire.  One of my first memories is riding in the car with what I perceived to be at the time, a giant St. Bernard, but her name was Maude and she was only a puppy. I remember  my mom and dad and I meeting someone late in the day, and having her in the car with us as we went through the Dairy Queen drive through or some fast food joint. Back then we only had three, so I feel certain it was a Dairy Queen. As a child of the 70's , I have a few other choice memories that linger like a frozen screen frame, but lots of the good ones contain dogs.  I remember Maude knocking my four year old self down in the Texas snow and not being able to get back up, and feeling certain my life was over. I remember my giant Great Dane Beau not letting my cousin out of the VW bug they pulled up to the house in, and watching from the window as Beau towered over the top of the car. I remember Boo Boo and Melvin two almost identical little wienie dog mix...