durham flowers

i love making eve get right in the flowers

a visit to durham a little while ago

beautiful beautiful durham north carolina in the springtime. now that i'm a grown up i can finally see it.

birds in the bush

north carolina, north carolina, and new york 

paper moon farm and brigg's barbecue, caswell county nc

 

eve and i drove 45 minutes from durham to visit maddy's beautiful farm, paper moon. maddy is a solo farming inspiration to me (though living in a trailer through all those summer tornado warnings is petrifying to think about). here and here are some photos of her goats.

the very enjoyable briggs bbq in yanceyville.

pelicans

holden beach, north carolina

holden beach, north carolina

from "Miles City, Montana" by Alice Munro

"I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself. I lived in a state of siege, always losing just what I wanted to hold on to. But on trips there was no difficulty. I could be talking to Andrew, talking to the children and looking at whatever they wanted me to look at--a pig on a sign, a pony in a field, a Volkswagen on a revolving stand--and pouring lemonade into plastic cups, and all the time those bits and pieces would be flying together inside me. The essential composition would be achieved. This made me hopeful and lighthearted. It was being a watcher that did it. A watcher, not a keeper."

--Alice Munro, "Miles City, Montana"

east north carolina in the summertime

holga and xpro from the past

olive and opal eating pine