Entries from February 2010

February 25, 2010

Pictures into Words…

I’ve been hunting around for good writing prompts lately which has prompted me to look at a lot of photographs around the web and in our library. I’m loosely framing something together relating to ‘remains’…as in, what remains, lingering, physical remains, legacies…it’s all kind of floating around in my mind. In thinking about [...]

February 18, 2010

home.

We are back from a really excellent trip to our southern home! The picture above was snapped on the plane as we were being bathed in the gorgeous red sky sunset light that welcomed us back to Virginia yesterday evening, and it sums up nicely the peace that we felt as we touched down. [...]

February 10, 2010

Leavin’ on a jet plane…

Ahhhh, the good ‘ol days:

This is a picture of Drew blissfully sleeping away the hours that are needed to fly to Baton Rouge.  I took this picture last year, unaware that there was a baby just beginning to take hold in my belly.  Tomorrow we are making this same flight again, only this time instead [...]

February 8, 2010

puzzle pictures.

According to Robert Motherwell, collage is “the twentieth century’s greatest innovation”.  This is a pretty bold statement from a man who saw the creation of everything from the car to the copy machine in his lifetime, and I can think of a long list of things that I might rank a little higher on my [...]

February 7, 2010

SnowMG!

We woke up this morning to a glowing world that looked as though it had been draped in an icy doily.  The 12″ + of snow that we got this weekend was very wet and heavy and so it is clinging to the branches with fierce dedication.  Although this kind of snow makes the power [...]