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rose & crown
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swimming hole

i remember, but as if through a fog.we took a bus from the orphanage to this swimming place. it was painted green on the inside. there were few seats, and open fans and I sat on the floor. Some girls...

1 day ago

a good book

"Everyone at the table in the orchard sits down to eat. With the meat they will drink dark wine. The guests start to touch each other more often, jokes pass quicker. When somebody forgets, somebo...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

more photos: a charming breakfast at tanyas.with her, time rambles. we forget our watches and the meal develops slowly. when you arrive for brunch, she passes you a spoon to stir the cream on the sto...

23 may 12 2 people like this

when we got home from camping last weekend, we helped my parents in their backyard. it is an exciting time of year for a garden. so much work to do. my parents is a pretty amazing place. a river runs...

22 may 12

tastes of our weekend:butter biscuits for breakfast over a fire, with strawberry jam and sharp cheesefoil roasted rosemary red onionsteak served over roasted beets with cottage cheese and thyme and l...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

there is a daywhen the road neithercomes nor goes, and the wayis not a way but a place.-wendell berry

15 may 12 2 people like this

now, this

this was autumnthis was winternow, this, is spring. it rains a lot and is chilly at night, but the green is brighter than any other time of year. and our hearts are full of looking forward.where woul...

08 may 12

the rain woke me last night. i heard it start in the dark. just for a moment, when i was finding the cool side of my pillow.now, grinding coffee in our kitchen that still smells like last nights fryi...

02 may 12

spring

"important lessons: Look carefully, record what you see./Find a way to make beauty necessary;/Find a way to make necessity beautiful."-Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces.The trees in our front ya...

27 apr 12 1 person likes this

center

got out of the city again this weekend - to peek at what was growing.there were some overwhelming and hard things that swept into our lives and the lives of the people we love this weekend, whirling ...

23 apr 12 2 people like this

divided our time this weekend between the city and the country.that, i think, is the best way to taste the changing season.we have to fight a little for our spring up here, but its coming, we all kno...

18 apr 12

portraits of the other

"the cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed." - j. joyceI am most comfortable behind the camera, but if in front of the camera, I am most comfortable, if Thom is behind it.We ...

10 apr 12

"what she knows, she uses, as she does her eyes and hands." - m robinsonan warm afternoon coffee moment, here, a couple weeks ago.happy easter. ours was wonderful, we love our church, and our...

03 apr 12 1 person likes this

"one of two, lying still in a dark room, knows when the other is awake." -m. robinsonhe puts his shoes on by the front door. sticks the newspaper in his back jeans pocket. i am ever thankful ...

28 mar 12 2 people like this

time, love.

i can breath again//

16 mar 12 2 people like this

Gods hands

"a dried honeycomb, an empty hornets nest."Getting film developed always makes my heart flutter. but sometimes, rarely, it also makes me sad.I do, i think, take photographs partly to try to s...

15 mar 12

eggs and grits

some southern tastes I had never before tried:deep fried okraboiled peanutspimento cheese

13 mar 12 1 person likes this

railroad

"then taking from his walletan old schedule of trains, hell say I told you when I came I was a stranger. " - L. Cohen.I love trains. In every country Ive visited Ive maybe loved trains the mo...

08 mar 12 1 person likes this

weather

happy weekend.if march is about any one thing it is weather. changing weather and surprise weather. every morning, in Savannah, this is the window i push the top half of my body out of - reaching to ...

03 mar 12 1 person likes this

doin the charleston

two very wonderful humans (these two) visited me in Savannah last week,making my lonely life here much brighter.we took the train to Charleston where we slurped she crab soup and drank beer on the po...

28 feb 12 2 people like this

thoms lullaby

i sometimes listen to thom’s childhood lullaby, written for him by his papa, before i sleep. it grounds my dreams i think. sweetens them.i like to think of that love - a dads for his first baby. the ...

17 feb 12 2 people like this

ocean floor

savannah seems like a jungle to me.the buildings struggle to hold their own. what grows overtakes everything that doesnt. if you dont photosynthesize, you dont have a hope. i imagine always that i am...

09 feb 12 2 people like this

the length of a shadow

"on your dark face, light shadows [...]good night, that is, good morning,farewell, that is, hello."-wistawa szymborska

09 feb 12 2 people like this

where its flat

the horizon linemollusks underfootwood made softhigh tidewere familiar with this much sky.for people who live here, its maybe too cold for the beach. for us it was perfect.

04 feb 12 1 person likes this

grave danger

"i love you like grave danger" -alexanderthomas visited me here in savannah. my love is changing. its a heart exploding, worlds axis shifting sort of thing. next time he comes, itll be to tak...

04 feb 12 3 people like this

from a distance

photos by thom/winnipeg.i missed a friends birthday party in winnipeg this last weekend. but people i love fill the photos thom took, and his descriptions of the food and music almost make me feel as...

18 jan 12 1 person likes this

same 24 hours

top photo by nikaela/savannahbottom photo by thom/winnipegthese were taken on the same day. if i put our photos together it feels like one life instead of two. one windy and cold and bright and sandy...

16 jan 12 2 people like this

bird man

today on the beach.

14 jan 12 3 people like this

this bounty

"we conversed in low whispers, as if afraid to wake up the land...." - joseph conradweve begun our adventure - I am in Georgia studying art. Being apart for even this short time isnt easy for...

08 jan 12 1 person likes this

adventure

were preparing for a grand adventure over here....

29 dec 11

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