At a vet visit with my cats, I kept feeling something bumping against my ankles as I walked across the room. I looked behind me and saw a spotted tail sticking out from beneath my skirt. Just as I was reaching up to make sure I wasn’t sprouting horns to accompany the tail, a polka [...]
An early spring and beautiful weather means that I can’t bear the indoors any longer. I’ve been planning the next phase of my Natchez Trace pinhole photography essay, and I’m working on the Nashville leg today. Starting on the Trace near Cherokee, the plan is to drive from Alabama to Nashville and scout out the [...]
The hangar-like walls and lighting, the ceiling fan that resembled an airplane propellor – that’s when I noticed the Diet Mountain Dew airplane attached to the fan chain. This crafty plane is in a perpetual static flight in the service department at a local dealership – a gift from a customer to one of the [...]
Instead of going out shooting this past week, I’ve been working on patching together an off-camera flash system that will work with a Leica. That’s when I realized I didn’t have any fresh material for today’s post. Uh-oh. Since I’m trying to work on the lighting in my photographs, I’ve been going through my [...]
Straighten the frame, and time will almost stop. The sun curdles in its domed ebb across the sky; the moon forgets the eager hopscotch of her starry entrance. Blank eyes will blink, a slow shuffle away from the faded background. Were they my ancestors or yours? A crooked frame : linear memory
Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love [...]
There’s this old Southern proverb: If you’re scared of the bear, go kick it. Once you’ve kicked the bear, your fear will be gone. Either the bear will laugh (and you will too – afraid no more), or you’ll not kick another bear again. (Ok, so it’s not so old – I made it up [...]
The last few weeks of weather have vacillated from cold snaps to warm days that have been more like the beginning of spring instead of the middle of winter. This week began with a fog shrouding the trees and the streets and causing an unrivaled dampness. I realized last Sunday that the fog was still [...]
When reaffirming my intentions of trying again at a photography blog, I paid attention to some advice of successful photographers. The repetitive sentiment seemed to be “Don’t ignore what’s in your backyard. Start at home.” True, photographing the landscape and scenery of Montana is much more appealing – everything looks so fresh, so interesting. “The [...]
Just two days ago scientists found the gene linked to depression; I’m still waiting for them to find the gene linked to clutter. Surely clutter is genetic – traceable on the family tree back to my great-grandparents. Of course, their propensity to hoard could possibly be linked to their having lived through the Great Depression [...]
“I don’t care about being old; I just want to keep getting older,” my grandfather wisecracks. Although he laughs, Granddaddy isn’t joking. He worries about his health. The last year has not been a good one for him. Besides a chronic heart condition, his weight steadily declined for several months before precipitously dropping to 130 [...]