On getting a really good photographer

My sister and Ben have started a blog, which I've linked at the right. They've just been to our Palm grandparents' farm for a few days, Abby sharing the cool basement, new kittens, garden veggies, Grandma Pat's banana pancakes and homemade syrup, playing cards and eating popcorn with the Rasmussens.

Because Ben is a photographer he takes pictures as often as the chance arises. The pictures from Albin are gorgeous (why can't I enlarge them?). It makes me think of the picture by John Bryson on the back of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan and her husband and her daughter. When I saw Bryson's picture I hoped, maybe someday I'll have really cool black and white shots of my family whose rights are owned by Getty Images because of my brother-in-law.

The Dunne/Didions at their home in Malibu