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This is my friend, Kris, and his kids – Sadie, Max & Sonja. There’s someone very important missing from these photos… Franya Berkman – his wife, their mother, sister, friend, daughter, scholar, musician, teacher, writer – passed away on August 26th from complications due to breast cancer. I have been honored with the job of […]

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Kris, Sadie, Max & Sonja

In our ongoing quest to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather in nature, we decided to head west and scout apple orchards for a photo session I have coming up. We landed upon a beauty of a farm out in Sherwood Oregon, Sherwood Orchards, with gorgeous established trees and different varieties.  Can’t wait to […]

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the McDowners go a-pickin’

My late 20’s were such a transformative time for me, as I think they are for most of us. In my 29th year I went through some particularly painful life stuff.  The relationship I had been devoted to for years and years dissolved, I graduated from school without any sense of direction, and then most […]

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it IS a Superhero Life!

wishing you a happy and peaceful Sunday

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peace

This is my boy Sam. He is so full of joy that he cannot contain it. This is what Autism can look like. xo, jen

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Pheonix

There’s really nothing like heading to a lovely creek spot on a hot Summer weekday. When there are no crowds. no time constraints. And you wade in the water, and build rock damns. And throw stones just to hear them splash and clank and thud against the other rocks. And you send caterpillars sailing on […]

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We Love a Hot Summer Creek Day!

Sometimes just breathing is the very best thing we can do.

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Just Breathe