Murphy Family

Beautiful Saturday and beautiful family make for one great photo session.  We headed out to Shaw Nature Reserve for some springtime photos yesterday.  The sky was perfect, just a little overcast which made for nice lighting, which gave us lots of options for photos.  There were still a few daffodils in bloom and everything else is just exploding with color.  The Murphy kids are also so photogenic and well behaved that I didn't have to work very hard to get nice images.  I think everyone had a good time, I know I did.  It's always hard to narrow down which images to include on the blog, but here are some of my favorites from the day.

So cute!

Handsome young man.

I LOVE this image in the daffodils. 

The kids were very interested in the lake.

Beautiful

Mr. Personality

Beauty number two.

Mom and Dad enjoying some brief alone time.

Sorry Rachel, I had to include this one.  I love the tie look:)

Sweet moment with dad and daughter.

Looking for ladybugs.

"Fishing"

One of my favorites from the day!

My Kids and Springtime!

We had a great camping trip over the Easter weekend.  It didn't rain even once!  That is almost unheard of when we go camping.  The kids had a blast and I just had to share a few of the images from our trip.

She didn't actually catch a fish, but I love the look on her face.

Spring Blooms!

They had a blast in the water, even though it was freezing.  It didn't bother them one bit.

Growing too fast for words.

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The Sandhill Cranes

     I have always wanted to see the sand hill crane migration through Nebraska.  I'm not necessarily a bird person, I have just seen lots of photos of it and wanted to witness it for myself.  Well, just so happens that my husband is from Nebraska and his grandpa lives in Kearney which is right in the heart of where the cranes come through.  So, a couple of weeks ago while visiting family over spring break, we just happened to be there during prime crane time.
     A little history, over 500,000 sand hill cranes migrate through a narrow stretch of land near the Platte River in central Nebraska each year.  On their way to Canada and Alaska for the warm season, they feed on the corn fields and roost on the flats of the river.  I was afraid that we would have trouble finding some because we were out there in the middle of the day.  Boy, was I wrong.  There were thousands of cranes and finding them was no trouble, I was not disappointed.  The only thing I wish is that I had a longer telephoto lens, because even though we were close to the cranes, I couldn't get close up shots.  But, I wanted to share some images from my trip.

Talk about bird legs.

Awesome how the cranes line up down the corn rows.

I love the look on this cow's face.

My son and his cousin watching the cranes out the car window.  It was "slightly" windy that day:)