Every year I tell the kids that the lupine is my favorite flower and that I have to get their picture by it. This is a small lie. I like the lupine a lot. The flowers are full and their color varies through the petal. They can thrive in the most ruthless soil conditions. Year after year they come up bigger and stronger than the year before.
Yes, I really love the lupines, but this is not why I feel the need to photograph my children with them. 
It is my hope that when the kids time in Alaska is done they will take these lupine qualities with them into their new lives. Life will plant them in a gravel patch along side a road. What will they do?
My brother, Mike is here with his kids. On the day that I took these pictures our house had been consumed by a cloud and it rained the entire day. After we made pizzas for dinner, the clouds started lifting and we all went on a field trip to Kilcher Road where we are breeding our silky white bantam hen with Charlotte's rooster.
Magically, the sun came out! After we saw the farm animals I took the opportunity to take the kids to the lupines to take our yearly pictures. It is not easy to get cooperation from this group of independent thinkers, but I promised them that if they just gave me 5 minutes I would take them to the playground at the school. Bingo!
Smiles! Sunshine! Drinking dew from the leaves to attract fairies to the scent! It was wonderful!
Then Zack got to do something that was made illegal in California years ago: Play on a merry-go-round and a teeter-totter!
Yes, what started in the gravel patch turned out to become a splendid day!
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