My camera and camera bag occupied nearly half the precious real estate of my carry-on luggage for a full week in Utah. Did I take the camera out and use it? No. I didn’t even crack the zipper on its bag. I was too busy hanging out with all of these awesome people — my … Continue reading I packed my camera, but…
I spent a week in New Orleans for work. Six days in the Garden District, near where one of my favorite novels, The Witching Hour, takes place, where Spanish moss and Mardis Gras beads drip from the trees. The fragrance when we decabbed from the airport was heady: warm, moist, earthy, with elusive hints of … Continue reading After New Orleans
Do you have a thing you daydream about – an ambition, a wish, a thing you’d love to do but you know it will probably never happen? Some people call it a bucket list, I suppose. I had that thing. I’ve had it since I was about 12, a freckle-faced island girl with a brother … Continue reading I surfed in Hawaii
When I looked out the plane window and saw the mountains of Utah, I saw saw-blade ridges that are wholly unlike the rounded green mounds of the Appalachians I’m used to. I couldn’t wait to get out into them, and after a nearly a week at our hotel, I finally took a gondola ride up … Continue reading Saturday hike in Park City, Utah
I generally photograph nature: hikes in the Appalachians, camping in Shenandoah, clouds in Florida, marshes in Georgia. This week, though, I am among talented creatives who organized a morning photo walk not on a hiking trail, but down Main Street in Park City, Utah. At 7:30 in the morning, before the sun crested the peaks … Continue reading A different kind of photo session
I’m in Park City, Utah for the annual Automattic Grand Meetup, and I had originally signed up to run the WordPress 5K this morning. After all the wine I drank last night, though, I decided to go for a solo mini-hike instead. I took these photos on the trail behind our hotel as the sun … Continue reading I was going to run a 5K
Butterfly Mind 