closer now

Hunger brings them close, but I don’t see them at first; I’m at the sink filling a water jug for the chickens, watching the water spill across the dirty dishes left for later and then I glance. The sunlight moves, and in the shadows they’re there. Six deer, maybe more. They move like quiet trees, [...]

Now we go down the muddy road

You can feel it on days like this: the way everything wants to run. Blood, sap, snowmelt, everything quickening and spilling over. We go out because there is nothing else we can do. Staying indoors and getting work done is like trying to hold water in my palms; the boys slip out before I can [...]

Flirting with chance:: it’s your turn

Hello lovelies, I had no idea so many of you would play along on my little game of chance. It was an amazing day, and a challenge to try to fulfill at least suggestion from almost everyone who commented and to document it in some way. But it was also so much fun.. It was [...]

Thankful*

I took these pictures yesterday, out my front door. Like heaven, the way the storm came through spreading the arc of a double rainbow and then left the world golden and blue and vermillion with the setting sun. I’m so thankful for this place that I call home–and also this place here, where I can [...]

Chaos + golden light

It’s really like this. Golden, golden light. I get out of class and drive home in wonder, my camera on my lap. I pull over randomly to take pictures (one of my many projects for class is to sustain a daily practice–mine has been to take a picture of the same thing every day in [...]