Vermont bridge in winter

strange to be posting a snow picture in the Alabama heat. but i’m working on editing all my Vermont pictures to show anyone who cares to look, where i come from. & where my heart aches to be. Every. Day. Of. My. Alabama. Life…

i will always consider him my first…

husky. i was living in Burlington, Vermont, in 1990…i looking for a new apartment. my boyfriend suggested his friend’s house, he rented out rooms of his beautiful Victorian house. i met his friend…Gavin was a bit intimidating, but he had brought along his husky, named Kahn, to meet me. to see if we would suit…

Vermont rocks

My parents are flying 1,250 miles from Alabama to Vermont…for its rocks. We live in Alabama. My mother can’t find Vermont’s equal in rocks here in Birmingham’s red clay.  The black & white rocks were found by my mom on their many sailing adventures on Lake Champlain. Their sailboat, Gypsy Soul, & the wind, took…

why my heart aches for Vermont

I grew up in Montpelier & Burlington Vermont. I am living my life in Alabama. I married an Alabama man. I love my husband’s family & I am grateful to every single one of them for welcoming a Vermont Yankee, a foodie, a farmer @ heart, Jewish, politically opposite woman into their large Catholic family….

teeny tiny kitchen

These images were photographed by Launie Kettler. She lives in Northern Vermont. She shops at local organic grocery stores (Plentiful organic, buy local, grocery stores…i grew up with them in Vermont). Launie has a wonderful, well-lit apartment…the one downfall, to me, is the kitchen. Launie took the lack of space as a personal challenge. Her…

the Vermont snowflakes

These images were taken with a Nikon D80 w/ a 40mm micro lens.  Some images were taken with a 10x magnifying Vivitar filter.  All images were photographed without a tripod–hand held @ about a 30th (or less) of a second.  Kip used a scarf, removed from his freezer, as a soft place for the flakes…