Lawrence stood, studying the painting... "So, what do you think dear?" "It's magnificent." "It's far beyond anything I was expecting." He extended his hand... "You've done an amazing job." Narin was both relieved, and very happy at the reaction to his painting.... "You've really outdone yourself, young man." "Thank you ..read more

It had been a few weeks since Lawrence had posed for his portrait, and Narin had finally finished it, and he was ready to unveil it... It was the best painting he had ever done, but he was still a little nervous.... Lawrence was secretly a little nervous as well.... Well, he thought that he'd better get on with it, so Narin started to remove the draping... "I hope it meets with your Majesty's expectations." Lawrence was speechless... Monica broke the silence, "So, what do you think dear ..read more

The twins were enjoying their new freedom, flitting about the garden, checking out the spring flowers ..read more

I had wanted to make little butterfly fairy costumes for the Avery twins so they could go out and about with the Grandma Phairby. So, last month I started on the wings, forming them out of wire, and then gluing on white cotton with Gemtack glue. I didn't feel like painting all the fine details of monarch butterfly wings, so I researched other 'orange butterflies' so the kids would still be the same colour as their Grandma. I settled on the Tawny Emperor Butterfly. Then I started painting the wings.... It took forever since both sides of the wings needed to be painted, whic ..read more

It was World Puppetry Day, and the royal children were playing with their knight puppets with their young dragon friends. Most of the little dragons were afraid of the big scary knight puppets.... ...except for Scorch, who took matters into his own hands ..read more

We hadn't had a decent snowfall all winter. Every time there was a 'storm' in the forecast, it would start in the evening after dark, and it would look gorgeous outside when we went to bed. But in the night it would turn to rain, and in the morning it would be a totally washed out mess. So, on March 22nd another storm was forecast, and it was supposed to start in the morning for a change, and it did. Big soft flakes started falling at dawn, and actually stayed on the ground. We were expecting several centimetres before it was over, and it looked like the perfect snowfall for some doll photos ..read more

Matias was happy to be home. He had missed his family, and they him.  ..read more

Returning home after another gruelling winter campaign....  Matias meets Saphira also on her way home ..read more

In late March we had the only major snowfall of the entire winter. I had wanted to take photos of Matias in the snow, so we headed out to the Ruins Garden in the storm, before the snow would get too deep and out of scale. It's always a challenge taking photos when it's actually snowing, since the falling snow can cause streaks across the subject's face, but I was lucky and most of my photos were perfect. In fact they turned out to be some of my favourite photos of him ..read more

Every day I see such beautiful AI photos online featuring dragons, that they've inspired me to take more photos with my own dragons. No story, just a few photos to inspire the viewer's imagination ..read more