A Picture Perfect Holiday

What a wonderful time I had this year with my family in the North Georgia mountains.  This year was the first time that all four siblings as well as our Mom had been together since 2006.  We have been through a lot as a family over the past few years.  Many of you are aware of our strife.  But this Thanksgiving was an opportunity to bridge the difficulties of the past with the possibilities of the future. And one easy and special way to celebrate this was through photographs.  I had talked for weeks about wanting a lot of pictures taken since the future is never promised to any of us.  Nobody knows when God plans to take one of us home so we must treasure the times we have together while we are here on earth.
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words.  This is especially true when we are trying to capture memories.  In this day and age of digital cameras and camera phones, we tend to take a bunch of photos but print only a few.  Many are now being stored on hard drives and forgotten about-then eventually lost when you replace your old computer with a new one.  Hence, scrapbooks and photo albums have become a thing of the past.  How many times have you been going through an old box of stuff and come across a series of photos that takes you back in time?  And how much fun that can be to sit there and reminisce.  So this year, make an effort to not only take pictures of the family but to print them.  With new technology, you can not only print the date but you can have names and other tags printed right on the photo itself. 
A photo is a time machine that can bring back memories and recreate old emotions.  Don't miss the chance to record these events this holiday season.  Give your future generations something to gaze back on and give them a chance to reminisce long after we are gone.

Family on Thanksgiving Day 2010 Young Harris, Ga.