Saturday, July 2, 2011

our first night in Anchorage, AK










May 31st... I got the phone call around 3:00am from Ashley, crying... Mom, Lucy has a fever!  Off they go... dad, mom and sweet, sick Lucy Bell to the emergency room it Kodiak.  Doctors can't seem to find anything wrong with her, but her fever is too high to let her go home.  Blood work is done,  a few failed attempts at a Lumbar puncture are done, and still no diagnosis.  I call Ashley every hour... it's hard to be so far away and not know what's going on... but they don't know much more... a few guesses were, MRSA on her lungs, Meningitis, herpes on the brain (where did that diagnosis come from?).  The doctors there said she was a very sick baby and she needed to be life flighted to the Children's Hospital in Anchorage.  That friday night we made our plane reservations for the next morning.                                                                                                                           After all she had already been through, and not feeling well, she still managed a smile for everyone.  She will melt your heart! 

Monday, March 28, 2011

Georgia

a two week old foal on the property where Colt is living.

to infinity and beyond...

a photographic study of rhythm, repetitive elements and the use of strong diagonal lines to draw the viewer right into INFINITY AND BEYOND...

Monday, March 21, 2011

hope and healing

The crane is a mystical, holy creature in Japan- it represents luck, good fortune, and long life.   The act of folding cranes, specifically, 1000 cranes, is said to make the folder's wish come true.  Strings of one thousand paper cranes are often sent to places where tragedy has struck as a symbol of hope and healing.  Whether you believe in the power of the crane, or simply in the gentle act of beauty and kindness, there is something up lifting about this tradition.