:: quick garden tour

the garden. from Ashley Fauls on Vimeo.




i've never utilized the video mode on my point and shoot.

so i decided to give it a little novice go.

a "one take---less than 60 second" tour of the garden.



i love that space.

see if you can spot the butterfly...

: image + lyric + quote :

just enough dark to see/ how you're the light over me.

- "the dreamer"
the tallest man on earth



write hard and clear about what hurts.

- ernest hemingway



it takes courage to grow up
and turn out to be who you really are.

- e.e. cummings



i want to stand as close to the edge as i can
without going over.
out on the edge you see all the kinds of things
you can't see from the center.

- kurt vonnegut

:: le petit zinc

had an incredible lunch.

at my favorite little restaurant in the city.


paired together with old friends.

and the perfect amount of late summer sun--

the day was extraordinarily good.

::: late summer observations

took my little diana mini out to the garden.

and observed the late summer.

through her lens.



always such a rewarding experience.



pictured:

detroit beet sprouts.

harvested eggplant.

basil leaves--- fading to seed.

and clothespins on the line.

::: hermes rocket

i came to possess a hermes typewriter.

the click click clacking.

is the methodical sound of a time gone-by.




i am pretty much obsessed with the little thing.

::: tour de troit-- part 4: signs & statues

can i just say it?

i am totally in love with my city.

::: random/weekend shots + musings.

...

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

...

Bee - fondness - perfume - cord
crumb- fool's gold - jumping voyeur
soldier ease - solstice strip.
purple quadrant - open gown.
microned matter
martyrdom quince
grapeshot micron.

- from the diary of frida kahlo

...

love this.
how i wish i could have been there in harlem that day.

...

love this, too.
i'll take one of everything, please.

...

i stand like a fool,
seeking a past that vanished ...
but night is wise and mighty
wiser than I, wiser then day.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...



ps:
that shop in the last photo is my absolute favorite.
please. if you're ever in detroit.
find this gem.
enter.
and fall in love.

::: words that struck me & images from around here...

you can’t beat death
but
you can beat death in life...


- charles bukowski
"the laughing heart"

::: alright

on monday.

i took myself out on a much-needed date.

i sipped a chai tea latte.

wandered a little town in the sunny afternoon warmth.

and saw this incredible movie.
(you all MUST go see it!)

it was good to spend some time with myself.

turns out.

i'm doing alright.

::: things that speak to me...

{transposed garage & garden. diana camera}




"i'm finding my peace. and forgiving myself for those things i've never done."

- willy tea taylor
"cattleman"


++++++

I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.

Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around

as though with your arms open.

And thinking: maybe something will come, some

shining coil of wind,

or a few leaves from any old tree—

they are all in this too.


- mary oliver


+++++


and this gorgeous. gorgeous. video.

::: tour de troit-- part 3: the diana film edition

randoms of detroit.

through the lens of my diana camera.



that old airstream.

is actually a traveling taco hut.

and.

that abandoned house in the third picture.

is my favorite in the city.

i often drive by.

slow down.

and imagine a life there.

+++

::: diana film 1: soup at spaulding court

this morning.
i found my forgotten little diana camera.
along with a long-lost roll of used up lomo film.
i scoured the town.
and found a small place that still developed photos.
in an hour flat--the film was processed.
& the rest of the day has been spent immersed in these images.


so haunting and lovely.


this particular batch was taken last august.
at a fundraising soup dinner.
in the parking lot of an abandoned apartment complex.
all funds went to the renovation of the property.
it was a memorable time.


finding these photos in their little plastic cocoon.
was unearthing a treasure.
hope you enjoy the simplicity of the film.
as much as i do.



another batch of diana pictures coming later this week.

:: cherries & things...

yesterday was the kind of day.

where sitting around.

eating cherries.

seemed like the only.

and best.

thing to do.


however.

i also managed to:
stumble across this brilliantly laid out & lovely old blog post.
do a bit of yoga.
peruse this intriguing site.
and compile inspiration for a writing project i'm working on.


but more details on that in the future...

::: thrifted. + plucked. + picked.

thrifted:
delicious orange leather moccasins.
and a cozy flannel shirt to don on cold camping nights this fall.
{found in the men's section. never, ever underestimate the wearability of a man's shirt .}


plucked:
four garden heirloom tomatoes.
and an organic facial toner made using that very same veg.


picked:
oh, my sweet mandolin.
i decided i needed to play an instrument.
to make music an extension of my arms. hands. fingertips.
so i ordered this beginners axe.
and have been pick. pick. picking away.
there's a real joy in those strings.


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