California Garden – Day 01
February 23, 2012
Before…..
After…..
Colorado Check In
March 22, 2011
Colorado; oh how I adore your 60 degree weather in March. You bring a smile to my face quite often. You wanna know what doesn’t bring a smile anywhere near my face?? Two broken toes on the same foot. Fudge! There goes snowboarding and a serious yoga practice. On the positive side they are healing quickly and the pain has subsided mostly. My main concern is making sure they are back to normal by the end of April for Missouri. Picture time!
DECEMBER 27, 2010
March 22, 2011
I said goodbye to Maine last week. Maybe more on the lines of “see you later alligator” but I don’t know when that will be, so, it’s a straight up goodbye for now. I have given/received so many hugs over five seconds in duration that now when I hug anyone it turns into this weird “opps that was too long” type of hug. Oh well. I like long bear hugs anyway and those types of hugs were completely authentic with the wonderful friends I had made during my time up north. Long and squishy hugs feel so darn good, especially since it’s been quite some time since I have had my needs for physical touch met to an acceptable level. I would say that I can go roughly four months without the slightest urge for companionship, but now my number’s running around six and that’s just too gosh darn long. I feel antsy, oversensitive to the slightest contact, and constantly wondering when those needs will be met. Life goes on though……
The farm season was absolutely fantastic, but I am ready for some much needed time off. My body and mind need a little rest. and then ….. MA and FL and VT and CO and finally to Rutledge, Missouri for a 6 month Natural Building Internship @ Dancing Rabbit. Can’t wait!!!
I wasn’t much of a whiskey fan until this year…. and now…..
OH! and if you haven’t seen Love Me If You Dare, please do. I can’t remember a movie to which I have had such an emotional reaction to. amazingly-lovingly-beautiful…..mmmmm.
Echo! Echo!
September 2, 2010
This place is collecting cobwebs. Right now life is better to be lived than written about. Maybe once the weather turns cold and the farm slows down, maybe then there will be more time for words??
Almost there…..
May 29, 2010
Monday is the official season opening of our farm stand! It’s amazing to see our hard work come full circle. Very exciting. I haven’t taken any farm pictures of recent…. too busy working extra hours, hang’n with the crew around the campfire and eating amazing food. I can’t remember the last time I ate a meal alone. Lovin it!
Last Saturday —–> serious discount shopping in Ellsworth, May Day festivities with lots of scrumptious food and tasty homemade hard cider, great food, drink and company at a local Blue Hill bar and last but not least …… an impromptu dance party in the middle of the woods. Pictures to prove it!
‘nother week down!
May 15, 2010
The weeks here are just rolling by. One day it’s Monday and the next, Friday. My body really needs the down time though. Last night was one big ball of fun. Greg and his guitar singing goofy songs, double fisting yummy beer, hooting and hollering and swig’n Jameson and then Jim and then more beer. I love my farming family. I want to wrap them all up and keep them forever.
It Feels So Good!
May 2, 2010
Oh baby! I’m in LOVE! Yes, oh, yes, I am. With….. Contra Dancing!! Mmmhhmmm.
Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) refers to several partnered folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Sometimes described as New England folk dance, contra dances can be found around the world, though they are especially popular in North America.
Lori, Jake and I went to Blue Hill for my first dancing experience and boy oh boy it did not disappoint. I cannot even begin to tell you when the last time I smiled that much was! Pure enjoyment! It felt so good to touch and to be touched by so many different people (especially since I have been “stranded” on a farm for two months). Some partners would hold me tight and stare me straight in the eye and never look away, while others would be soft and smile and lower their gaze. It was fantastic! I am completely worn out today so I am guessing a hiking trip to Acadia National Park isn’t the best prescription for my aching body. Thank goodness Sunday means sauna (another activity that I hold close to my heart!) and the relaxation that comes along with it. 200 degrees of pure muscle loosening power. I wish it were 5pm right now!!
The farm I work on lies about a five-minute walk from the ocean so, as you can guess, there are some pretty fancy (and expensive) homes around this part of the peninsula. What seriously irks me is that the houses are only inhabited for a small portion of the year and lay dormant more than they are occupied. It boggles my mind how some people have not a single home yet others have more than one…. and ones they don’t even use! *GROANS* There needs to be an organization that fills these empty houses with those needing a place to stay! Anywho….. On Friday it was pleasantly sunny and warm out so I wanted to get the gang together after work for some hanging, some cooking, some laughs. So we grab some beer and walk down to the lane with all the million dollar houses and we pick a driveway and then proceed to hang out on the porch of a 1.3 million dollar house that isn’t being used to it’s greatest potential. We take in an amazing sunset with cold beer in our hands, snack on apricots and peanut butter, snap some photos and leave without a trace. Chad cooked an amazing dinner and we had s’mores by the campfire. I had a s’more, Jake had four. Woah. I took a few nighttime shots with long exposure before my battery died. I’m excited to shoot more at night or maybe at dusk…. i’m just excited to shoot more in general. Yup, life is beautiful.
Alchemeyez: June 10-13, 2010 – Big Island, Hawaii
April 29, 2010
Alchemeyez is an intentional Gathering and Meeting of the Minds, uniting the most influential Visionaries in a celebration of the Expansion of Consciousness. It is our aim to educate and elucidate participants in this Conference to the Mysteries of Awareness and Perception through the Exploration of multiple topics, images and sound.
Attendees at this exciting Event will be among an elite group of participants who will have an opportunity to mingle with and receive instruction from the most creative Visionaries in our culture. Featured will be 21 of the Nations most recognized and prolific Psychedelic Artists, as well as many of the West Coast’s most popular musicians and producers.
What’s happening with all those veggies?
April 25, 2010
The last pictures is my new “veggie pillow,” which shall replace my normal, less edible one. A little over one month until the farm stand opens and the energy of this place completely changes. Oh I cannot wait to have visitors from far and wide showing up and complementing OUR operation (and also buying fresh and local produce, which is the whole idea to me). God, I love having such a huge part in something THIS big. I normally refrain from using “I this and I that” but deep down inside I feel that I have a chunk of my heart and soul into the happenings of this place. Blood, sweat, and tears and a lot of backbreaking work has gone into this season so far and it’s just beginning. Our little worker crew is growing slowly but I am feeling so much ease around these folks. We all come from different worlds but have a common interest/passion and we can share together. It’s our little Four Season Farm Community and with two more people to be added in the next month I can only imagine how it will evolve. Mmmm possibilities!
Now to clone photos! Oh, how I love them. Why you ask? I’ll tell ya! It gives me something creative to work on. I have to lug the tripod and set up this and move that and pay attention to lighting and I feel like I am actually creating something and not just capturing what was already in place. I enjoy posing, especially in yoga asanas. For one of the shots here I got to take my shirt off, which I thoroughly enjoy. I have noticed that I am always taking my shirt off here on the farm, more-so than others I would say. I just don’t like having it on. I want to be free and to get some sun on my white body, which is now much less white than of recent. Any who. Back to photos. What I also enjoy is spending the time photoshoping the whole creation together. Of course I would rather be outside running around in the sun than on some silly little computer inside, but for a bit of time it’s exciting. My work process through that program is becoming more streamlined I feel. I have the short-cuts down and have my batch automation all ready to process for the web. I’m no slouch I say, gosh, I have been using the program for over 10 years now. So yeah. I like the outcome of these two clone shots.
annnnnnnnd now it’s time to play boules in Blue Hill. I love my life!
Boules (French IPA: [bul]) is a collective name for games played with metal balls. Two of the most played boule games are pétanque and boule lyonnaise. The aim of the game is to get large, heavy balls as close to the small ‘jack’. It is very popular especially in France, but also Italy, where it may often be seen played in any open space in villages and towns. It is also referred to as ‘Bowls’.
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