A father and his daughter

My son brought his three children out to our campground place at Seneca Lake.

We have many amenities one of which is a well-cared for, good size pool.

It was his night to have them, but he couldn't keep them overnight

because he was leaving very early the next morning

for a meeting in a city several hours away.

I suggested they come for supper and the kids could stay the night with us,

so that he wouldn't have to have them back to their mom by 8 PM.

I would then take them to their sitter's home the next day.

That way he would have more time with them.

I went up to the pool to take some photos of them.

My heart was overflowing with love, pride, concern, happiness, and sadness

as I watched him with his children.

He's a wonderful father.

The following are some of my favorite photos from that day

along with some quotes on fathers and daughters.

A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:

"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."

The little girl said: "No, Dad. You hold my hand."
"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.
"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go.
 But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens,
you will never let my hand go."
Anonymous
 

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!

Philip Whitmore Senior

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic

as of a father to a daughter.

In love to our wives there is desire;

to our sons, ambition;

but to our daughters there is something

which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison