like the river

I followed the snaking foot-wide trail along the flood washout, past dark purple wildflowers that seemed to glow in the shade of the hillside, the smell of pine rising with the cool river breeze.  Just over the second log crossing, I found a beach and sat by the water. Hiking boots off, feet cleansed, eyes closed, so much sunshine... the only sound around was the loud rushing of the water, like it was going through me.

"Flow like the river", I started to think. It came to me again and again like a mantra. Flow like the river. The slow parts, the winding parts, the rapids. Be gentle, be strong, be fierce. Flow like the river; carve your own path.

cloud series

Photography has been a challenge for me lately.  In Mystic I had a little corner set up with my wooden bowl and stump next to the window.  Bright cloudy days were photography days.  Here, I have to drive to a park so that I don't have street lights and railings mirrored in my stones.  It's so sunny most of the time that I ended up getting a light box to bring with me and I've tried props but the wind takes them away! Soooo, I've started photographing my work on my 35mm film photos.  On bright, cloudy, windless days...

These little clouds necklaces were inspired by a very rainy Spring here in northern Colorado.  I photographed them on a photo taken in Arch's National Park a couple months ago.  Tim and I had just spent week bouldering in Joe's Valley (Utah) with some friends and decided to stop at Arch's before heading back into the mountains.  

shop the cloud series: here!

flowers and fungi

I just added some more 35mm film photography to my Society6 account!  prints, stationary & iphone cases available here:

www.society6.com/flowersandfungi