Unique

I really need to play catch up on here. There is so many things I want to blog about and just seem to run out of time. I've had a great opportunity to take wonderful Oklahoma fall colors. My family has had several great weekends. The kids were captured in very cute halloween attire and I've been on the sidelines every Friday night in an effort to make a little extra dough.


All of that will come eventually, the fall colors and the halloween outfits, everything. But first I want to tell you about a unique individual I had the pleasure to photograph.

I first heard about this woman in a newspaper article. In a world where everyone wants their five minutes of fame and the cheesest of characters can be found on the lamest reality television explotation, this woman turned down Jay Leno!



At 94, this woman owned a cow that had given birth to twins everytime she was pregnant. That in and of itself is a pretty amazing story that landed on the front page in a section of a major paper in the area. But that was just part of the story. At 94 she still worked every day on the farm. She was too busy for Jay Leno!

This week she turned 95. Several family members and friends joined her in celebration on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. It just so happened that this is part of Mike's family and they asked me to be on hand to photograph the event as it would be rare to have that may of the family together at the same time. Mike told me a few stories on the way to her party. It was miles and miles from any major city in fact the town in and of itself was lost.... Lost City. The small school closed down a year ago, one of the last schools that taught Cherokee as part of the curriculum.

You could most definately tell this 95 year old is still full of life. Though I'm not sure of the exact dates and how things fell into place, but the I understand that she's spent a good part of her life now as a widow raising kids and cattle after her husband died.

I hope I have half the energy and am of that sharp of mind in the next 40 years.

Someone asked her if she'd had a good birthday party and if she had a good time. She made a comment in the discussion she'd have a better day the next day when she could get back to the hay field to get the last of the seasons hay finished.

Happy Birthday to a very unique individual!