All that is gold

I don’t even remember where I was when I took these, but I liked this place. I was outside of Jaisalmer in the Thar desert and other than that, I cannot tell you were these monuments were. . .

Today is filled with not so great news, but I feel that things are looking up. There is always something else, something more. . .and a good deal more to look forward to.

A shore of washed stones
A sky the color of stone
A stone cliff

Stony face, stony heart

There is nothing here,
Twisted roots, sea taking the land
Back. Sea wrack
And rain.
There is nothing
Here between us but stone.

One must learn to live with stone,
Make it a bed to lie on
A step to climb.

Carve.

– Kelly Cherry

[Photos: Gold somewhere in India//Grace Farson]

Night thoughts

So many thoughts in this little head of mine tonight. I can already feel this semester is going to fly past. Already it all seems like a blur.

I want this semester to be filled with creation, truth, hard-work, and new inspirations for now and the rest of life. . .

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[Photos: A golden Sunday, Carrboro, NC//Grace Farson]

Fall road tripping

Finally got around to developing a roll of film from November. . .

[Photos: Images from the road. Charlottesville and beyond//Grace Farson]

 

 

Winter morning

It feels like summer//70 degrees// Shorts to class.

I am entirely unprepared for a real winter.

Winters are long here.
The road a dark gray, the maples gray, silvered with lichen,
and the sun low on the horizon,
white on blue; at sunset, vivid orange-red.

When I shut my eyes, it vanishes.
When I open my eyes, it reappears.
Outside, spring rain, a pulse, a film on the window.

And suddenly it is summer, all puzzling fruit and light.

– Louise Glück, Winter Morning

For your Monday:

+ A pretty song about frost falling (?) for your week.

+ A pretty photo of St. Petersburg in snow

+ A pretty video of Iceland

[Photos: Comfortably cool September days in Virginia and North Carolina//Grace Farson]

Kelsey + Alex = Married

It’s hard to believe Kelsey + Alex’s beautiful wedding was over a  month ago now!

More:

+ Here

+ Here 

+ Courtney Potter’s pictures

[Photos: October 13, 2012//Grace Farson]

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

This month has passed at an alarming rate. October, thanks for being better than good.

Here’s to colder weather, a new month, fall leaves, and dressing up:

+ pumpkin carving as an art form

+ this photo

+ these leggings!

[Photos: Fall in Asheville, 2011//Grace Farson]

Alex + Kelsey – under the sun

I was reminded of these photos, because it seems that the sun doesn’t exist today.

Kelsey + Alex’s wedding on the other hand was sunny, bright and shiny.

More:

+ here + here

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. . .” – e. e. cummings

More photos to come of their glowing wedding . . . soon!

[Photos: Kelsey + Alex, October 13,2012//Grace Farson]