another portrait

Taylor XC skiing on Christmas Day.

Lauren and Hudson, Christmas Eve 2009

I snapped this with the last moments of sunlight on the Elk Refuge, our front yard.

Bringing the Noise

Celebrating Taylor's 30th Birthday on Whiskey Mountain in the Wind River Range. We spent a couple of days checking out the Big Horn Sheep Rut! You haven't lived until you've heard the thunder of crashing Rams!

North Carolina Time

still learning how to Live the Life

“The west isn’t a place that gives itself up easily. Newcomers have to sink into it slowly, to descend through its layers, and I’m still descending.” – Pam Houston

I’ve been living and working in Jackson for more than a year now and I think I'm finally done fighting against the backwards ways of this place– the inconsistencies, the unemployment, the blind walk on a seesaw. I’m giving in to living in the moment, in the simplest of ways, and I’m loving it.

I'm just noticing how lucky I am today. I wake up and I say to myself, “Should I try to work or ski today? Most of the time its skiing of some kind, and when I get done, I go on a long run with my great dog – who has more joy than a Christmas song. We just go along together, side by side on the icy streets, and he’ll put his head up to lick my fingertips, and we’ll keep going until the colors melt into night.

“I drank the moonlight. It filled me up.” – Pam Houston