I would like to pet you

would you hurt me if i did? maybe i’m just living dangerously…standing this close to the sun.

tree bark turn green when the rain falls

This tree is Mobile, Alabama…tree bark turns green in Birmingham too. While the tree remains dry, the bark is brown.  i love the Southern rains, always strong & heavy, nothing subtle about rain that falls here.  It is magic to drive the roads i do everyday, or to just look at my own backyard &…

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…

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…

the Showplace of the South

The Alabama Theatre is an amazing place inside. I hope to show my own pictures of it someday. Sorry about the quality, i took these with a hot mid afternoon sun with my iPhone.

funky echinacea

i wanted to buy these for the garden so badly. i didn’t b/c they cost twice as much as regular pink echinacea.