Photo-a-day | July 1 2026
Year fourteen. I keep waiting for that number to feel less wild to say out loud, and it never does.
This one is different, though. Magnolia is eighteen now, freshly graduated, and her brother is twelve — closing in on teenager territory himself. Six years apart and somehow further apart in stage than ever, but this July they’re both still here, under one roof, full-time, in a way that has an expiration date on it now.
I don’t say that to be dramatic. It’s just true. Come fall, this particular version of “home” — both kids, same house, same noise, same chaos at the breakfast table — starts to change. So this July isn’t just another year of the project. It’s the last one like this for a while.
Fourteen years of showing up daily with my camera has taught me that I never know which ordinary moment is going to matter later. So I’ll keep doing what I always do — following them around with my lens, the in-between moments neither of them will remember posing for.
Here we go again. Thanks for sticking around for it.
