wind, water, and ice

On a walk over the weekend at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, we heard a strange sound in the silent winter afternoon, like a bird call, as we walked over the earth dam. Getting closer, we saw that the sound was actually produced by the water in the reservoir lapping against the sheet of ice. A rock thrown on the ice made more good sounds-- these ones like metallic echoes. After awhile, the wind shifted directions and the whole surface of water changed appearance-- now, it was running away from us!

Dashing through Schenley Park

On my recent visit to Pittsburgh, the cold winter had just settled in. At Schenley Park, we needed to run a bit to get warm! We took turns pretending to be a monster, chasing the others. Later, we found some icicles and broke one off to goof around-- it became my fang, Amy's long nail, Aaron's unicorn horn, and a drippy nose!...

friends / twins

I've thought for a long time that it would be fun to photograph friends who dress alike, probably without realizing it-- they have just "rubbed off" on each other. I don't have the guts to photograph strangers, so this one photo will likely complete my project!

Spotted at Razzy Fresh in Pittsburgh:

One more

Raquel and Tom

Thanksgiving

I had a lovely Thanksgiving at the Vogls. There is something about this house that is entirely unique, I was wondering whether I could capture something of it in these photos. The coziness of the lighting, seating, and textures of fabric are part of it, but there is also the aroma of coffee, rhythmic and soulful music, tasty food, and good conversation with dear friends. Not to mention the puppets!

Franke


Puppets!


Raquel


Anne's store


Self-portait

green yellow orange red brown gray

These images are two weeks old, from a walk along the trail at Charlottesville's reservoir. I returned a week later, and this green beech tree (below) had turned completely yellow! Since then, we've had some hard rain, so looking out over the hills now I see many gray, bare branches. I can't complain, it has been a long and beautiful fall here.

Nathan celebration

Allegra and Bill hosted a dinner to celebrate our friend Nathan's move to Seattle for a new job at a landscape architecture firm (unfortunately, I did not get a good picture of the guest of honor). It's amazing to think that only three years ago, we were all struggling through our first design drawings together (and sharing a lot of laughs as we did). We are looking forward to visiting Nathan, our new UVA outpost on the West Coast.

Suzanne and Maggie


Chloe and Tim


Maggie, Lauren, and Chloe