an impossibly possible project

I’m driving with the windows down and my hair down and the late August light makes everything gold, gold, gold: the asphalt, the windshields of oncoming cars, the dozen college boys who run across the road in front of me, shirtless, their skin on fire in the setting sun, to run down the green median [...]

August 24:: Treehouse

“I want a fort really, really bad Mommy. Can we make one?” Today I said yes. Yes, and a pile of wood destined for the dump became a flying boat fort. He built it nearly half himself. Singing, hammering, adding knobs and buttons and tubing and the appropriate tree fort signs. And then he came [...]

August 22: decided

I love this set. I’ve been loving taking pictures every day (though I’ve failed to post every day.) I like trying to tell a story with shape, with color, with line echoing line, with gesture reflecting gesture, with color. +++ So I am going. It’s for certain. Even though things will be tight, tight, tight [...]

August 5::Thursday

This boy makes me smile all day long. I snapped these right after his nap… when he was all sleepy and mellow still. Love his little bum in the air. +++ Today was all about long walks and conversations with my best friend… Conversations interrupted by little boys asking for snacks and finding caterpillars and [...]

August 3:: Tuesday

{Things from today: writing; lunch saved for me by my honey; the kitchen counter cluttered with fruit. } +++ Summer is slipping. Thunderstorms rut the roads and send lightening forking through the afternoon sky of late. Across the world, people sit bare headed without shelter in fields flooded with rain. My heart aches for them. [...]

August 2::Monday

Today: crushing on Leonard. (Really, it’s a forever crush.) Makes me want to re-read Cities of the Interior. For some reason the two always go together in my head. Today: a storm came crashing through; rain so hard the sills were wet in seconds. Thunder above the maples; sky the color of whipped wet ash. [...]

August 1::Sunday

Starting the August Break today. Of course I’ll be doing it my way: many pictures + a few words. This month will be all about: Dreamy summer light + cicadas + playing badminton after dinner. Writing, writing, writing. Wrapping up big summer projects for work. T staring his job + me juggling both boys. Finding [...]

With grace

Good morning! We are just about to head out on a long bike ride (so happy) but I wanted to post these photos. I am loving the morning light this summer… and playing around with focus. I’m so looking forward to The August Break (there are a lot of projects around here that need some [...]