More Random

Just sharing a few more shots from the weekend with you. Driving home tonight, I saw the the shadows stretching across streets, and the setting sun seemed bigger than I've ever seen it. I always want to hang onto these early autumn evenings, when you can sleep with the windows open and hear the night sounds. I hope you're enjoying the cooler days and the changing colors.

Random

Just a few shots from a weekend visit to Killdeer Plains. I remember an instructor's question,  "Where's a bad place to shoot? Absolutely nowhere!" So true.

Reflections

re·flec·tion noun
1. the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
2. an image; representation; counterpart.

3. a fixing of the thoughts on something; careful consideration.

4. a thought occurring in consideration or meditation.

Birds of Paradise - Basia Bulat

Happy weekend, friends!

Vermont: Decay

The weather can get pretty harsh in Vermont, in case you hadn't heard. While it can be rough to suffer through, it makes for some lovely, weathered images. The blue barn? That's where we got our whole, unpasteurized milk when I was a child. The bird house? My father must have made that at some point. The rusty hinges are on a barn right next door to my parents' house. Kind of cool, no?

Vermont: Stone

"Come with me, I want to show you something." my sister Carol said to me. And she brought me to this very old graveyard. And it was beautiful.

Vermont: Growing Things

I don't know why it surprises me every time. Summers in Vermont are profoundly fecund. Apple trees seem to punctuate your every ride from one place to another. My mother has two volunteer apple trees growing down the hill from her house. This makes the deer living in the woods behind them very happy, and so you'll see lots of deer prints there. She also has blueberry and raspberry bushes that deliver so many berries that she has a hard time keeping up with picking them all. She freezes what she can, and we make preserves throughout the year from them. And if you've ever had homemade preserves, you know that store bought pales in comparison. She also makes tomato ketchup, which is actually more like tomato relish but serves the same function. Fresh flavors in the dead of Winter.

Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire

Have a lovely weekend, folks!

Vermont: Animals

I had an amazing time visiting with my family in Vermont. I wanted to share some things from the past week with you. I tried to put them in some kind of chronological order, but that didn't work so well. Have you ever noticed that when you are on vacation, time plays funny games with you? It speeds up, it slows down, and then it's suspended for a bit? Yes, well that's why I decided to just try to share a few themes with you. I took a ton of pictures, so perhaps you'll bear with me as I just show you some things, and try to give summer a fond farewell.

I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that Vermont has more animals than people. And it's quite a life for them. My sister Diane and I were driving north when we passed a farm with alpaccas. Diane had wanted for years to stop and say hello to them, so we did. When I asked the farmer if I could take pictures, he laughed and told me to take as many as I wanted. Those city folk.