I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, April 2025 Spanish moss, hanging from old oaks, dances in the breeze. Bright, warm afternoon sunlight streams across stone statues as I enter the garden of memories. Azaleas bloom as tourists walk along rows of beautiful and historic graves. I’m amazed; like at Père Lachaise, I could spend here all day. Morning started […]
Read More Gardens of Good, Ages of EvilSomewhere in the middle of the Piedmont, a rocky river becomes silty and muddy and changes direction. Called the Deep River, it gives its name to the southeast’s largest Triassic rift Basin. The name “Deep River” is a translation of an indigenous name, sapponah (sappony), which, beyond this, has vague (conflicting?) sources but most likely […]
Read More The Deep River and its Triassic Basin: Cumnock to CarbontonA man in a three-cornered hat, amid the howling wind, turns toward a kid and says “sorry, the stocks are closed today” …then he walks away. Then the kid disappears, and I stand alone by the stocks in the windy lot. It’s two days before Christmas, and a winter storm is pushing through Virginia. Temperatures […]
Read More Winter winds in Williamsburg
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