About a Boy

This is another photo I took at the Worldwide Photowalk.  This boy was walking across the street and I rushed to get the shot.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

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Hanging On Too Long

Pumpkin patches and little boys.  Is there anything better?

A pumpkin in the hand is worth two on the bush(or vine)

Anonymous

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Caught Up in the Rapture

Talk about having a "field day", this little one was ready, willing, and able!  

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. 

Wayne Dyer

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The Slow Life

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What could he actually be discovering and creating in his mind?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. 

Dodie Smith

Love's Proof

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Wow, I had the greatest photo shoot with Leone Ray, a beautiful little boy with the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen!  Since then I've pretty much been on vacation, so I'll post as many pictures as days I've missed.  Some days are meant for making pictures, and some days are made for posting them!  Here we go!

“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them”

Owen Meredith quotes (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton. British diplomat, viceroy of India and poet, 1831-1891

We've Only Just Begun

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Ah! Young love -- so naive, so immature, so unsophisticated, yet ever so charming! Every generation warns the next of the heartaches and the heartbreaks that come with this love. Yet, each generation is eager to experience love. Authors have tried to express the happy occurrence we call young love.  I watched this young couple at the Getty Museum.  You could tell they were just getting to know each other, wanting to touch but not quite having the guts to try.  She, especially, was very flirty in an innocent, cute way.  I had to photograph them.  I've posted the original and then a Photoshopped version.

                  No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream

Thomas Moore

Wild Wild West

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A sand ball in one hand and a gun in the other, this little one was ready to conquer any sea creature that came his way.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy. 

Jimmy Fallon

Bradley

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The other brother of Kylee, Bradley is all boy, loving baseball.  He has very impish eyes.  He always looks like he has a secret and somehow you want to know what it is.  He laughs easily and loves life.  He's fun-loving and happy.  I like him a lot.

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. Tom Clark

Gavin

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This is one of Kylee's brothers, Gavin.  He is a smart cookie.  I just heard that he was accepted into a really cool gifted and talented program where he got to spend time in the mountains of Colorado.  He's also an entrepreneur.  He makes and sells masking tape wallets.  I'm so impressed with him.  He's very nice, well mannered and a real cutie!  Oh, a couple more things....he plays baseball and is a great athlete.

" Attitude reflects leadership, leadership reflects attitude."

Author Unknown

Teenage Surfer Boy

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This surfer ran to the beach just as the sailboat was in the perfect position.  What luck.  Sometimes things just work out!

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Little Surfer Boy

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This has to be one of the cutest things I have come across at the beach.  This kid was into it, checking out every part of the surfboard.  I could see him dreaming of the day he would be big enough to use a surfboard that was this large.  He looked like a mini surfer, attitude and all.

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

Douglas H. Everett

Two Little Indians

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As I made this photograph I could see that these young boys were coming into their own.  They were starting to get the swagger that all boys get when they reach puberty.  They were beginning to strut their stuff and their costumes made it all the better.  I feel like I captured the feeling in the photograph.

"As kids approach puberty, parents should talk about sex and set up the right kinds of guidelines for social interaction."

Lawrence Cohen quotes

Roach Headdress

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I love the headdress on this boy.  I wanted to run my hand over it to see how it felt.  Apparently they're called "roach headdresses."  Porcupine roaches can be commonly seen at powwows, where they are still worn as regalia by male dancers from many different tribes.  They were not generally as spiritually meaningful as warbonnet headdresses, though a boy earning the right to wear a roach for the first time was an important ceremony in some tribes.  As I look at this photo, it does not appear to me that these are made of porcupine quills.

“A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.”

John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674

This Little Indian

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There was the cutest little boy in his Native American costume who kept wanting to get his picture taken.  He just kept looking and grinning.  What a happy little cutie.  

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able. 

Charles Perrault