a treasure trove for Birmingham

  i drove through downtown Homewood & found ‘Homewood Antiques & Marketplace’ i would describe it as an adults playground, there is so many amazing old & new things for your home or for gifts for ANYONE. i could do all my holiday shopping in this one store. i had only my iPhone. i wanted…

the incomplete butterfly

one of the things i teach in my art classes for children is, “leave no white.” what struck me first about this butterfly was the absent part of his lower wing, then i noticed that if he were cut from paper, then the person that did the cutting, left the white on his wings. instead…

feed me

yesterday’s pick. i bring the BIG tomatoes in just as they begin to turn red because in Alabama heat, if left outside to ripen, they boil & burst. 🙂 besides, green tomatoes are DELICIOUS! We put them on our pizza, pastas, BLT’s or we leave them to ripen on the kitchen table.

eclectic mix of architecture & why i’m scared to go downtown

I’ve tried twice to capture the amazing mix of architecture of downtown Birmingham. The first time, i went downtown on a Sunday morning, with a friend who grew up in Paris. I had my Nikon with me & gave my friend an older one. As we came around a corner, we were confronted by a…