By Scott Shephard

“Home” is a complicated concept if you think too much about its meaning, as I have this morning. Robert Frost famously wrote in his poem “The Death of the Hired Man,” that “home is the place, that when you go there, they have to take you in.” Elvis suggested that “Home is where the heart it.”

Whatever you might think, Lynn and Jon (daughter-in-law and youngest son) are back “home” in Seattle after a 3-year stay in Bucharest, Romania. Interestingly, they own a house in Seattle but they are staying in an AirBNB for a few months because their house is rented to someone else. So right now their house is not their home.

You can ponder all of that. Or not. But they are back in the USA, which is perhaps their most expansive home. (Does US Customs have to take you in if you have a US passport?)

A couple weeks ago it was good to spend some time with them at a mini family reunion in Minnesota.They are laughing here not because I said anything funny. It is because Glenny and Ibby (two of their nieces) are throwing leaves through the frame of the photo. It’s nice to have good help when you are doing portraits.

It didn’t all go well. Here’s an outtake from the session. After a little coaching, we got it right.

Canon R5 f2.0 1/125 sec ISO 100