Wiping The Slate Clean 2008-2010

Hello!

I have not posted here for quite some time. However, I am feeling more energy to start the blog back up. I have so many pictures backed up that I have been a bit discouraged about posting new material. So, this post is all the noteworthy edits from the last year or so (I think). I am cleaning photo house. Very few of these have left the confines of my hard drive until now. I hope that you enjoy. They span from my time in Austin during the 2008-2009 school year to the present.

I know there are way too many. Thanks again.

Pssst...there is a prize if you make it to the bottom of the post. :)

Thank you~!~

Much Love to all you out there in internet land.

Yours,

Nicholas Pippins






Young cousins at Christmas time.






Trip to Mount Magazine in the winter.




Breezy at a Barefoot session.








Head shot session with Helen Davey.








Smoke pictures. Tried to put these on a Stock photo site. They didn't want them :( But I think they are so freakin' sweet looking.




Water droplet. Another unsuccessful try at a stock pic.




Candle stock photo. Didn't get taken either. Going to keep trying. :)






Baby cuz...so presh.














Flores en Tejas.
















Merry & Thomas' wedding at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs AR.




Maybe my favorite portrait of the year. It is from a session with Anna and Thomas Dickinson.




Random. Thought is was kinda cool.






Miscellaneous medium format photographs from my year at Austin Montessori School.




Made this montage this year when I was feeling a bit dark. Can you tell? It made me feel better.


If you made it this far thank you! If you see me around town you just tell me and will give you a big fat hug. Thank you!!

You guys rock. Thanks you as always for visit this site.

I am beautiful, I am bountiful, I am bilssful.

My tea told me something beautiful the other day.

I am beautiful,

I am bountiful,

I am blissful.

Do you know that you are too!! If you are even reading this on a computer over the internet, you are SO blessed.


Do you drink tea? Are you taking your quiet moments? I know I have to work at it.

To be ever more mindful in my daily life.

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

Let's reconnect with this miracle more! The miracle that is YOU. Your world and all those things in it. Take it, use and shape it to your desires. For they are there for reasons. These and all other things are gifts that you are only remembering, everyday of this physical life. Thank you.....


To the unfolding of mindfulness and compassion in ALL the moments of your life.

Positively Kimber

Thank you Kimber! Love, Light and Abundance to you my friend on this wonderful day.

Kimber Spruce has been so gracious as to let me place my photographs along with her lovely and inspiring posts. You can find her blog at Positively Kimber. Her posts are insightful and uplifting. They are truly wonderful. Let go and let God do the heavy lifting! Let the divine flow in your life! Be the Bountiful Being you are meant to be~!~

I Love all you out there


The picture below is from the first installment of this particular collaboration.





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As I look at these flowers and dwell on my previous post of Helena. I am remembering that these pictures were taken last spring. They are of many wild flowers just south of Austin TX. Many of these flowers are in my parents back yard, were we have planted a large wild flower garden for Helena. The "Mexican Blanket" flower above is a type of Helenium. There are many different ones. This garden was planted in her honor. In a memorial ceremony a year after her death, all who attended, spread seeds in the garden.

In the spring they blossomed into many different shapes sizes and colors.

As I am living my life in the winter I am very often reminded of our life cycles. We see the falling of the leaves and drastic changes in environment and weather. During this time the cycles of our planet and, our lives, are especially noticeable. In flux. Just as we too will have our final winter, we are reminded yearly and moment to moment that all material things cycle. They all come in and they go out. They are manifested, and they vanish away.

Nevertheless, as every winter comes, it also must go, transforming into spring. Just as we will blossom and transform. Surely as there is a spring to the winter. There is rebirth and a blossoming that is available to you in all moments.

As I look at these flowers I am reminded that we are all in a very powerful time. The winter can be a wonderful and powerful time for working on your intention for the year. Building up and setting your rituals in place. Reevaluating circumstances, habits, and character. Good time to get that journal out! What do you think!

But I am ultimately reminded of the blossoming of spring and divine transformation in our lives.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!











Thank you for being here.

God bless

Helena Jerolyn Pippins, Sept. 01, 1990 - Nov. 17th, 2007

The pictures that are about to follow, I made in the first few days after Helena's Pippins death. I have never placed them on the web (until now, two years later). I hope that they bring you some clarity and remembrance of those days after she passed, for those of you who know her. I can only hope that they provide you the same sort of comfort and power they give to me. They have helped me to process a period in my life that was hard to see at the moment. Or maybe it was hard not to see anything but it. I am not completely sure how one goes about processing and letting go of accumulated grief. However, I am learning quickly. I do know that this gift that has been given to me does help.

I also know that those of you who have been with Helena, my family and I, in physical, in spirit, and in prayer during these times are forever in my heart. I am so grateful to all of you out there. Thank you so much. I hope that you know your worth in the lives of other people.

Helen, you were as beautiful in death as you were in your physical life. That has been a great lesson to me. This lesson was reflected through the friends and family who I have heard, seen, and touched since your passing. I will live my life to you, and to the highest for all my days.

We love you Helena!

Thank you,
I love you,

Nicholas Pippins


























































Thank you!!

I need to post.  I have been busy, busy.  I am now a school teacher living in Little Rock Arkansas.  I have a wedding to edit and show you.  Also I need to take some good pictures of some of my classes, and put them up.  I hope al is well with you out there in blogger land

Much Belated Last Post From Oaxaca....

YAAARRRR! It's me! On the way up into the mountains de La Sierra Norte! ¡Que chido! ¿Ya? Anyway, it was very curvy. Very! However, Mexicans from this region have been driving them since they have been driving. So, they drive fast. I got a little queasy feeling, and that never happens to me. Never. I can go on crazy American (and Mexican) carnival rides and eat all that funnel cake and cotton candy and keep going. So it was curvy.



On the way to Calpulalpan we stopped in Ixtlán de Juárez. Which is the birth place of
Benito Juarez. Benito Juarez was the first president of indigenous blood. He came from a Zapotec family in the rgion of Ixtlan. He was also the father of the reform in Mexico. Kind of a Lincoln of Mexico. Pretty cool dude, considering the rest of Mexican political/military history.
Also, in Oaxaca they LOVE him....well some people. Not everybody.




Went to the museum to Benito Juarez in Ixtlan, very nice. Some good prints and sculpture on Juarez.




"The men of the Reform"




Portrait sculpture of Juarez


Me and the man.


In the summer these Scarabs are everywhere! Especially at a little higher elevation. In the little mountain Pueblos there were thousands of them. Strangely, the majority of them were on their backs as well. But I found a few that weren't. They were big too. Like as long as a silver dollar, or maybe two digits of your finger.



Also, the day that we were traveling was voting day in the State of Oaxaca. They were state elections. Mexican politics are so confusing that I am not even going to comment. I just tried to do some extra research, could not make sense of it, and am going to hold my tongue. But PAN vs. PRI and the history of Oaxacan politics and the teachers strikes etc. are a very interesting thing to study, if you feel so inclined.


They did not like it when I took this picture, I had to leave...



Basket in Calpulalpan



The church there was gorgeous and very old. We had to walk around and find someone to let us into it. Finally a young man let us in to look and take pictures without flash.



Virgen de Guadelupe, beautiful.



I devoured fresh river trout caught and cooked up right there in the mountains. Very good. With mezcal and beer , a very good meal. Straight Oaxacan, really more like Zapotec, but whatev. Delicious, and real.



Then I slept in a hammock in the mountains, and waited till my friends found me. Ha! Excellent day. Thanks for looking!! As always.

-Nicholas Pippins