Cheri’s Photos

Cheri’s Photos 📷 Welcome to my world.
🏕️ My garden.
🌲My woods walks.
🌸 My “keep my sanity” walks.
🏡 My playground.
💮 I stop for flowers.

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Welcome to my world. My garden. My woods walks. My “keep my sanity” walks. My playground. I stop for flowers. And whatever beauty stops me in my tracks. My handy-dandy iPhone always on me. I hope you’re as enchanted as I am when I revisit and publish my pictures. And I hope you put them on display! On your walls. On your coffee cups. On your tote bags. On your notecards and phone cases. These beau

ties let me know there is a Designer and I don’t walk alone. I am a 73 year old K-8 tutor/teacher who is also a mother/grandmother who loves children, gardening, and nature walks. And now photography! From my garden and from my walks, I showcase the “heart” of an individual flower, or the way it sings a solo in a choir of flowers, and share it on Social Media. I also take photos of backlit nature-scapes and share them. Anything that stops me dead in my tracks, is something I want to showcase and share. I’ve shared my photos on Social Media, showed my prints to friends, and given them as gifts. The initial in-person reaction has often been a gasp, and the feedback has been,

“You need to sell these!” Art Storefronts graciously agreed. So here I am, and here are many of my pictures. I hope they give you joy!

Cheryl Poortenga VanTil Flory
07/07/2026

Cheryl Poortenga VanTil Flory

This is my chosen 4th of July flower. This bright red Monarda or Bee Balm is my kind of fireworks. It explodes in color, not sound. If you agree, give me a like and a follow. Lolol!

07/06/2026

This is my chosen 4th of July flower. This bright red Monarda or Bee Balm is my kind of fireworks. It explodes in color, not sound. If you agree, give me a like and a follow. Lolol!

06/20/2026

There was a time when I fell in love with a people. I taught the children of that people. I felt the pain of that people,witnessed the effects of generational oppression going back centuries, and witnessed the overcoming of its effects and did my best to offer the love, the boundaries, and the knowledge they needed to right the wrongs of history and one child at a time to give them the knowledge needed and the acceptance, love, and discipline needed to overcome the generational oppression and become all they were meant to be. It may sound like I’m bragging. It’s just that I cared so deeply that it changed something inside me. I saw the safety and comfort and privilege I was raised with and I broke through that. I moved into a multicultural neighborhood, attended a multicultural church, shopped in multicultural shopping centers, and hung with multicultural friends. It was a slow transformation. A belief in one’s own superiority, and assumptions that I knew more just because I am white and was well educated were shaken to the core. I still hear from some of those children who tell me I made a difference and it breaks me. Because they made a difference to me and changed me to the core.

Catalpa flowers hand in a waterfall of tiny blossoms from the catalpa tree. The insides are gorgeous
06/19/2026

Catalpa flowers hand in a waterfall of tiny blossoms from the catalpa tree. The insides are gorgeous

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