Posts Tagged ‘reflection’

Slow Decay, Old South

March 20, 2014 | One comment

Warm, sunny, early spring days will sometimes find me driving out on the Old Oxford Highway, enjoying a more rural part of Durham county. There is the old Catsburg General store, there is a popular spot on the Eno River, there is bucolic farmland. There is this homestead, the buildings grayed and collapsing, a slow […]

One Sunset

January 12, 2014 | No comments yet

“You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.” ―Galen Rowell  

Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the Death of Humanity

November 29, 2013 | No comments yet

I’m going to go off script for a moment. It’s Black Friday, I’m at home with my family, eating homemade beef stew that’s been slowly cooking for more than twenty-four hours. My family’s all out of town for Thanksgiving, spending time with other family, and I am acutely aware of their absence. We had friends […]

Man and the Sea

November 7, 2013 | No comments yet

La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton âme – Charles Baudelaire I periodically return to the sea, both in a literal and figurative sense. Going to the coast, at any time of year, in any kind of weather, and putting the vast ocean in front of me always helps to center me, always helps […]

Monsoon Summer

July 9, 2013 | No comments yet

It’s a wonder we haven’t floated away yet, rainy as it’s been in North Carolina this summer. I mean, we are used to rain, but not like this kind of rain–this heavy, persistent, record-breaking rain that is flooding things like I’ve never seen before. Between the rainstorms and the firestorms brewing in the NC Legislature, […]

Reflection

May 6, 2013 | No comments yet

This spring in Durham we have had a stretch of cool, drippy, cloudy weather that reminds me more of Seattle than North Carolina. Where we have temperatures lingering in the sixties this year, we usually have muggy eighties. I am enjoying the cooler weather, and even the rain. Even though it’s not always fun to […]

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