August seems to be my month for fake fashion photography. I’ve been having much fun taking photos of my friends wearing things they don’t usually wear, doing things they don’t usually do.
Witness…
Hanna with kitty:
Jen the crazed Polish widow:
Faith, shut out:
Kitty Jasmine, chasing a butterfly:
Let’s everyone take a moment to contemplate this photo of my beautiful friend Kiley, engaged in her toilette:
I was at her house with some other friends playing dress-up when I took this photo. Dress-up is one of my favorite games and I haven’t done it in so long. I got to try wearing [...]
Here’s a poem I wrote today… (I don’t remember the last time I wrote a poem).
Bee Hospice
Oh look, he says
I stop and turn around
He sets the grocery bags down
Is it dead? I ask, squatting
I poke it gently, with my thumbnail
It is not brittle
Maybe it is still alive
Not even an antenna moves
I pick a soft [...]
I am seriously stressing about work. Last night I couldn’t sleep… I got up, took some extra pills from my well-stocked pharmacy (the joy of chronic illness!), downed a glass of ice water, knocked a bunch of stuff over next to the bed and woke Richard up, adjusted the rotary fan to point right [...]
… I saw them– my first fallen leaves.
It rained all night last night, the denouement of our sad weather week– but this morning dawned absolutely brilliant and clear. When I stepped outside, the garden still sparkled with rain, and everything shone with that kind of pure color that only a night of hard rain [...]