black & white rose

contrasts abound…the soft looking petals vs the sharp thorns, bring the fluffy looking bumble bees with their sharp thorn-ed backside. This rose has hard light on one side with soft light fading into black on its other. A rose is a lot like a human. The woman reveals her soft side more often, because showing…

Baggett’s Chapel Community cotton

A friend, Helen, came by to visit me & bring me wonderful gifts, comfort food for my family, Dahlias from her yard & cotton from Brewton, Alabama.  Brewton is very far South of Birmingham.  Helen’s grandmother’s house is rented to a farmer who grows cotton on the land.  The house is located in an isolated…

Veteran’s Memorial

Names of the fallen carved into cold granite. The names will remain, even time will have a hard time washing the names away. The contrast between the cold grey stone & the sunlit colors of fall is a peaceful one. One represents an absolute end, the other is signaling the end of a season, “and…