family – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Light Caught in a Pyrex Bowl

When I sat at the dining room table and looked into the kitchen, I saw the yellow bowl with the light shining through it. Right after I took this picture, the sun disappeared and it was a regular old Pyrex bowl. This is a bowl like the one my mother stirred her whole wheat bread dough, covered with a tea towel, let it rise. Large yellow Pyrex bowl on kitchen table

vintage Pyrex large Yellow bowl with sunlight

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June 18, 2018June 19, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: available light, bread, dough, family, food, kitchen, mixing bowl, photography, postaday, pyrex, sunlight 16 Comments

Our Parents

My Father’s Day post.

Here’s a photo of our parents, Roy and Marian Hendricks. Dad is holding my sister.

My parents didn’t own a camera so a family friend must have taken this picture.

This lovely photo is in one of those awful sticky photo albums. Ugh. There must be a way to remove the photo without damaging it. Any clue?

June 16, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1942, baby, black and white photography, family, Father's Day, parents, photo album, photography, postaday, vintage 8 Comments

Happy Birthday to my Brother

Hey David. Happy Birthday to you. Hope you have a great day. Some pics from the archives remembering my visits to see you out west in Okanogan. Love from your sister.

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Your raspberries are delicious

Helping out at the sheep farm

Lavender in British Columbia

Glacial lake

Everyone loves your garlic

Your garden is amazing

June 13, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, brother, family, garden, gardening, glacial lake, horses, lavender, Okanogan WA, organic garlic, postaday 22 Comments

What I Couldn’t Throw Out

First posted almost 8 years ago. Mark is now 42.

The kids all grown up and gone now, I’m still going through stuff in my house. Trying to clean it all out.

These animals with their faces, ugh.

Do you find it easy to throw things out?

From 2010.

WHAT I COULDN’T THROW OUT

Purchased in 1977 in New York City at Creative Playthings. Rubbery farm animals. Nice to clutch and carry around when you’re almost two. I bought them for baby Mark who’s 34 now. Maybe the paint is unsafe for the grandchildren, plus they have a hole in their stomach so whatever dirt and mold in the basement the past 20 years is living inside them. I put them in the contractor bag to drag to the curb and I swear the cow’s eyes looked at me.

I took them out.

Photographed them.

Their faces have the loveliest expressions.

June 10, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: childhood, children, family, farm animals, garbage, toys, trash 25 Comments

Space Station Sighting Sunday Night

You might have to strain your eyes to see it in the photo. The space station sighting on Sunday night. The little white dot to the left,over the neighbors house roof, is the space station. Traveling 4.7 miles per second. Erika’s dad knew what time to see it in the sky, thanks to an app he has.

It tells him where and when to see satellites and such in the night sky. It was really bright. Although it was over Sunset Beach Florida when we saw it, we were standing in Columbus, Ohio.

My iPhone was the camera.

May 20, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: astronomy, Columbus OH, family, grandchildren, iPhone photography, night photography, night sky, Satellites, science, sky guide, space station, star watch, stars, Sunset Beach FL, technology, travel 15 Comments

Mother’s Day Greetings

In the ongoing effort of cleaning up the third floor earlier this week, I found a stash of postcards and greeting cards, some handmade by my kids, written or scribbled upon and saved. Saved by me cause I couldn’t bear to pitch them. Even a dot matrix computer printer card, made by the kids for me. A folded page of Murphy the Airedale’s inky footprints before any of the grandkids arrived and then I found a card with the addition of “baby” when Anna was expected.

Numerous photographs, too.

Happy Mother’s Day greetings, a partial collection.

Me as a young mother of 3 in 1983Me with the kids on way back to Germany in 1985 at Christmas after Aunt Bobbie’s wedding in Kansas City.

My mother as a grandmother holding Mark in 1977, Fort Knox, KY

Christmas 2017. Me with five of my grandchildren

Finding my place in the world of motherhood.

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May 12, 2018May 12, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: airedale terrier, baby, dog, family, grandchildren, greeting card, handmade card, home, love, mother, Mother's Day, photography, postaday, travel 29 Comments

A Rabbit Babywearing

Michelle Weber challenges bloggers to show a photo of something unexpected this week- the word is unlikely

Wasn’t expecting a rabbit carrying a “baby” –

but it was Easter time.

Window display showing baby carriers for sale in Berlin.

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May 4, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: #babywearing, baby carrier, baby-wearing, Berlin, city scene, design, fabric, family, Germany, photography, postaday, rabbit mask, reflection, sidewalk, travel, urban scene, window display 8 Comments

A Roomful of Cellos

A roomful of cellos. A closet full of violas. Basses along the wall. And violins galore! Friday we got the tour of The Loft Violin Shop on High Street in Columbus OH by the owner himself, Mr. David Schlub. They’ve been in business for more than forty years. String quartets have played in the different rooms and then rotated after a half hour or so. Wouldn’t that be great to hear the music made by these beautiful wooden instruments?

“From the moment you walk in our workshop, you will understand our commitment to old world craftsmanship and fine stringed instruments.”

http://www.theloftviolinshop.com/about-the-loft.html

April 29, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: available light, bass, cello, Columbus OH, education, family, luthier, music, musical instruments, musician, orchestra, photography, postaday, string instruments, viola, violin 23 Comments

32nd Annual Duckling Day

Saturday was the 32nd Annual Duckling Day at the Whetstone Branch of the Columbus Library.

Charlie wore his duck costume with mask on for more than an hour. The library had provided the materials to create the paper costume. There were some real ducks to watch splash in a baby pool And a parade led by some of the marching band. The NACHO band played outside the library. I forgot to mention that the 72 degree weather of yesterday dropped thirty degrees today. Brrrr 42!

The puppet show, crafts and folk music inside the library were all fun activities for the kids.

So here’s the blog post featuring Charlie while trying to omit photos of the other children. There was quite a crowd.

Thanking all of the sponsors who made the event possible. Each child received a goody bag with a book!

Here’s Charlie earlier in the day, gluing on the paper feathers

https://www.columbuslibrary.org/events/345999

https://www.facebook.com/NACHOStreetband/

April 28, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #ducklingday, books, childhood, Columbus Library, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus OH, ducks, family, Marching Band, music, NACHO street band, parade, photography, postaday, puppet show, weather, Whetstone 16 Comments

Maura’s Guest Blog

Maura has wanted to be guest blogger for the longest time. Her brother Michael did the honors yesterday. Today, Friday, was her chance.

I handed her the Canon 6D and said “halfway down, then all the way.” Click Click Click. Here we are- We gathered on Laura’s front porch before pulling away from the curb. We almost forgot to snap a picture. Longtime friends mini-reunion in Columbus OH.

Charlie sure likes that garden owl.

I took this one of Maura holding Charlie. Cousins!

April 27, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: available light, Canon 6D, childhood, Columbus OH, cousins, family, friends, friendship, grandchildren, guest blog, neighborhood, photography, postaday, reunion 14 Comments

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