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Welcome to my Blog!

Hi! My name is Valerie Dietsche. I am a wife of ten years and a homeschooling mom of three beautiful children. After a couple of stints overseas, we've now been settled for several years in our little fixer-upper in small-town America. Photography has been an interest of mine for a while, but just recently have I begun pursuing it as more than just a hobby. I love nature and being outdoors, as you can probably tell by many of my photos. I am now branching out into photographing people, as well. Other interests of mine include reading, (both personally and with my kids), good music, good coffee, and good company! You'll learn a lot more about me as you follow along with my random assortment of blog posts, and hopefully you'll also enjoy the photos along the way.

Thanks for stopping by, and please say hello!

p.s.--Please do not use or reproduce my photos without permission. Thanks!

Monthly Archives: February 2008

give my kids just about anything…

…and they will find a way to play animals

…or some form of vehicles.

they’ve been on a magnetix kick lately.

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happy birthday, miriam

we celebrated miriam’s birthday a day early with family and a few friends after her final soccer game today. tomorrow we plan to have a mostly quiet (a figure of speech) day at home. enjoy the “Best of Miriam 2007-08″ slideshow. (to view it larger, click on the bottom right-hand corner, then “miriam slideshow”, and...

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tricks of the trade

i didn’t even realize this until after i had taken this first photo. see how it looks like i so perfectly captured the setting sun in the background? i thought it was pretty cool, too, until i discovered that it was not the sun at all, but a street lamp in the distance. when i...

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efficient apology

sawyer had done something to his brother that required an apology. when i asked him, “what do you say, sawyer?” he replied, “sorry levi, i forgive you, and amen.”

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snowy shoreline

the kids and i took a drive out to the big lake this morning. if you live locally, i would highly recommend making the trek out there soon — the expanse of frozen waves were too amazing for me to capture in a photo… and i was too cold to try real hard. can you...

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