There is a long list of restaurants, in Birmingham, Alabama, that use fresh produce from local farmers. By choosing a restaurant that buys it’s fresh produce from our local farmers, you are supporting two local businesses. I would suggest googling Farm to Table in Birmingham, Alabama (or your own city) next time you’re thinking of…
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the things people make
This isn’t everything i saw that day. The Pepper Place Farmer’s Market was a sprawling plethora of eye candy. Here are some of the local artists that set up camp that Saturday morning. This is what America doesn’t know about Alabama…the good stuff.
Farmer’s Market in Birmingham, Alabama
As a former Vermonter, i was used to Farmer’s Markets. My favorite thing to do on a Saturday Morning, in Burlington, Vermont, was to grab breakfast. Usually i bought a loaf of homemade bread & some cheese to go with it. i could eat it sitting on Church Street watching the people go by. The…
her first music festival
This is day two. She walked into the art studio this morning, asking for my glitter. When i saw her, i thought, wow…before i say a word “mom, you should have seen how cool everyone looked yesterday.” and began to describe all that she had seen, or at least the best of it. i don’t…
why you should buy local
when one owns their own businesses, they shop for the things…they think we might like. i cannot imagine how stressful that must be…at first. i always try to buy local. one of my favorite places to shop is one of the three Leaf & Petal nurseries/gift shops in Birmingham, Alabama. i can now say, “i…
What do you say at a funeral?
“Rabbi Jonathan Miller of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama shares a recollection of ordinary people and his eulogies for them at the time of their death. The people remembered here were not famous. They were ordinary folks, like most of us. Brought together in a small Southern Jewish community, these ordinary people paint a pictures…
when all hope is lost…
remember that flowers can rise out of a wasteland. having depression is akin to drowning on the inside. reach for anything that can make it better, even if it is just a movie…so you can remember what it feels like to be the original you. a glimpse of the happier you will help you put…
Birmingham is becoming…cool.
the young have taken over Birmingham. a city that looked almost abandoned in 1993. Now there are amazing lofts, art galleries, locally owned restaurants…its awesome. i hope to shoot more. i took these from my car, with my iphone.
blood red ranunculus in a wee salt shaker
or maybe it is in the pepper shaker…either way, it is a masterpiece of a flower.
change the direction of the sun.
i moved into an apartment last May. i have lived in houses most of my life. Most houses have windows on all sides of the house, never really thought about that before…when i lived in my last house, i followed the sunlight, all day, like a cat. i tried to find an apartment that faced…
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