I needed to unplug and be with my family. My oldest wasn’t able to join us, so in a way, the pictures in this series, which I call “Unplugged,” aren’t complete. However, they still captured the perfection of what happens when we have no other distractions and nothing else to do but be together.
We started our morning early after a night in a cabin in front of Arbutus Pond in the Adirondack Park. The peace and serenity of the morning can, if you crave it as much as I did that morning, make your eyes tear up a bit.
There wasn’t anything else—just nature and water—silence, stillness. It was a beautiful, unfiltered, undisturbed moment in time.
Later that weekend, we would drive past the crowds of tourists in Lake George and, by chance, end up at a secluded little beach, where my children made friends with the grandkids of local residents and proceeded to enjoy the lake to the fullest.
As I laughed with my family and watched them play, I promised myself that I would give myself and them more time like this, where we would toss aside all the distractions and all the things that take us away from each other. The rewards from our unplugged time together are too precious a gift ever to overlook or take for granted.
“Unplugged” – The Adirondacks, 2014
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