Love & Family – Wayside Woodworks

Family Pictures

December 26, 2018June 1, 2021 waysidefilms

Looking through our family’s photographic archive and trying to select images for my wife’s memorial service, I was struck by the power photography has over

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Love & Family

Debra Lynn Shirley

December 26, 2018January 24, 2023 waysidefilms

Debra Shirley passed into the next life on September 29th, 2018. She was the foundation of our family and my wife, partner, lover and friend

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For several years as a guest artist for Jefferson County Schools, I worked with young kids in summer workshops and after school art clubs at Foster […]
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