“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...
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
During the spring and summer, I spent a lot of time seeking out and photographing water. ...
“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...
