somethings are not as they seem

This looks like some sort of candy. It is a dying Camellia blossom-I think. I dreamt, this morning, I was ordering a popsicle, it was butterscotch colored. The casher hands it to me & says,”I know it looks good, but its got a bit of a kick to it” I asked her, “Why? Its butterscotch”…

Alabama’s biggest holiday is today

A celebration in which families come together to eat very unhealthy food & drink beer in plastic cups bearing their team’s logo. It is a holiday spent yelling-but not at one another, but at a television. The Alabama/Auburn game. Both colleges are in Alabama. Everyone has to like one or the other. I married an…

my ten year old photographer

I stopped the car because I wanted to try & capture this extraordinary tree. I had my Nikon d90. Henry had my iPhone. I took about 8 images. Henry took two. I knew they would be high contrast & tried to figure out how to capture the tree in a way that would translate on…

think outside the box

example: to make a wee house bigger, instead of building up or out, try building under. Like Atlas, lift the whole house off the earth. It looks like they are using wooden crates to hold up this house. It also looks like someone is standing under it.