“Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don’t grow along the highway.”
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Sometime since Covid took hold of our lives, I started a new personal photography project. This project was to visit small towns and interesting places in the Carolinas, my home. Keith Carter’s project resulting in...
“Live like an artist!”
-Art Wolfe
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”
― ” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
Since my physical travel has been limited since March, I have spent more and more time traveling through books. While listening...
“I believe that each person has a favorite place, a tree, a mountain, or a beach which they want to come back to, even if the return can only take place in the boundaries of their imagination.”
― Sana Szewczyk
I have several places that I return to again and again to photograph. Roan...
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone
Friendship is one of the most important things to me. I am so fortunate to be married to my best friend, Randy!
Many of my friends have shared life’s ups and downs with...
“Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals “love” them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.”
― Edwin Way Teale
When I read the challenge for week seventeen with the 52 Frames project was soft, I started brainstorming soft things that...
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The fall colors in the North Carolina mountains are peak in many places right now. When the fall color is at peak
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Spending time in the natural world has already given me a sense of peace. The sounds, smells, and sights of the natural world
