“When young photographers ask me what they should do, I always tell them to stay close to home.”
-Annie Leibovitz
I have had the opportunity to take a couple of day trips to enjoy fall colors, but I have spent most of my time
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Mary Presson Roberts
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell
I was thrilled to have the chance to take a second day trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway Sunday. Randy and I wanted to see if the fall colors
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
— Anonymous
Randy and I took a spur of the moment road trip Sunday. The purpose of the trip was to enjoy and photograph early fall colors on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the mountains of North Carolina.
“You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”
― Pat Conroy
Charleston, South Carolina is...
“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.”
― Lucy R. Lippard
I live in the same town I have lived in for most of my life since I was ten years old. ...
“Dream what you want, and then you can likely create it”
― Edna M. Muse
I absolutely love when people live imaginatively. Creativity adds so much joy to life.
Several months ago, inspired by Keith Carter’s book, From Uncertain to Blue, I decided
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid
When searching for a quote for this blog post, I came across the one above. I loved that it included the word persistence. Persistence is a word that I would use to describe my
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”
-Robert Wyland
My best friend of 45 years, Dena, invited me to spend time with her at her beach house located in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. I looked forward to the trip for so many reasons. First...