home grown.

Impromptu strawberry picking on a wednesday.

 

 

Meet Vanessa

Last weekend I had the pleasure of adventuring Kincardine with a friend, fellow photographer and BEAUT!

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” - Roald Dahl

 

 

Spring at ground-level

Love me a good lie down on a nice patch of grass in the sunshine. Nothing like it.

Meet Jess

Jess is so pretty it makes me want to make an obnoxious "eeeee" sound. I think this is what it feels like when cupid hits you with an arrow or something. What a beaut. Am I right?

Who ever said harsh midday sun is always bad??

Also: such a beautiful thing about working with other creatives... Jess plopped herself on top of a cement brick; a place I would have never thought to put her, and this is what turned out. *Insert applause for her brain here*

Hope everyone's Saturday was as sunny and bright as ours :) 

p.s. did I mention we are jacket twinsies?

When it's written in chalk, it's law.

Meditation: I won't pretend I know very much about it (far from it, actually), and I've never even physically OMMMMed before... but I don't need to have done so to know that this is a practice I should try to do every day. So it's on my wall, because when it's written in chalk, it's law, right?

There's something that feels SO GOOD about separating your physical sensations from your thoughts. To remind you that there is more to every day than the stuff that needs to get done and to get away from your brain's inevitable ability to "have a mind of its own"... so-to-speak.

So take a minute for yourself and feel that breath. You'll be happy you did.

Meet Greg

Making a new friend + making some new art + adventure = a really really good way to spend an overcast monday.

I’m making this equation my summer goal and motto. I read somewhere once that life is about the people you meet and the things you make with them.

So that’s what I’m doing. And it feels gooooooode.

Keep the adventures coming, universe. 

Big thanks to Greg for being my model. ;)

For frustrated creatives.

Usually, when I post a photo I try to accompany it with a story, or a quote, or something to tie the two together. I was in the same mindset for the past year when it was my job to pair photos to words to make a good story.

Today, I don’t see a connection (maybe someone else does). And that’s okay.  I’m just sharing two things I like. And the simplicity of that is just as satisfying.

And, for any frustrated creatives....

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple of years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer, and your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just staring out or are you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure that out than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while, It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

- Ira Glass

PS “I’m a rocket maaaaaan”… Thanks, Elton.