It’s like coffee for me, the writing. It is how I wake up to my day, wake up to my life. The words flow easier in the mornings when the weight of the day hasn’t fallen on me yet, and it is here my heart awakens. I write in my quiet time, the only time [...]

I don’t have time to write the post I’d like to write today, flying back from California, but I wanted you to know I am thinking of you. I do that a lot, you know. I can guarantee you that I have described you and what I know of you and why I love each [...]

We fly out to San Diego today – I’ve spent a week in California, back when Pete took the Bar the second time, and I cannot WAIT to get back there. Something about the light… Oh, and speaking of light, don’t miss the Photoplay gallery at The High Calling today! We played with flare this [...]

I have the most deliciously fun homework ever. I get to go searching the web for pictures. The kind that tell about me, about my brides, about what I want my whole site to feel like. I’m having a blast (and being a perfectionist, as usual), and I’m even getting way inspired on my new [...]

i started my day hours ago, when the sun woke up and touched the snow, when my children made their morning sounds. sleep left hard, and slow. then i rose slow and took my lens into the early light and caught the southern jeweled miracles and our christmas tulips and my daughter catching snowdrops on [...]

I was going to try to write a poem, but I’m not coherent enough for that this morning. So, have a photo from this year’s snow in South Carolina. Sure, it happened in February, but the mood, it holds, right? We have friends coming in this evening to spend Christmas with us, which means cleaning, [...]

But the rest of the week has been okay, so far. Yay for getting stuff done. Just. need. to. stop. SOON. This would, of course, be me, working. I had my last shoot of the year yesterday, a newborn session for a baby who ACTUALLY slept. We’re talking landmark, people. I had an idea for [...]