This Life
The images you will find in This Life are, for the most part, informal images from my life in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Life is what happens in the day to day beauty of our ordinary lives. These shots are by and large shot with my older iPhone and are not meant to be perfect. Some may be soft and imperfectly focused – this is the way life often unfolds.
Penguin Plunge
As a photographer, I feel an urgency to remind my fellow humans that our destiny is inexorably...
The Enchanted Runway
A playful investigation into our belief in the importance of narrative and time…
An Unsheepish Pose
A sheep strikes a confident post in San Antonio, New Mexico
Pretend You Are a Dog
This dog. THIS dog holds me like putty in his deep brown eyes and snow-crusted whiskers.
Wishes and Promises
I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous…
Apricots in the Rain
The taste and the aroma of my tree’s generous offerings will come back to comfort me in the days to come, reminding me of the love that is…
Secrety Beauty
Beauty is hiding in places we often don’t expect to find it…
First Batch
If you don’t like apricotish snapshots you’ve come to the wrong place! (At least until my bumper crop has been polished off.) I had no concept of the size of the wave I’d end up…
Love Made Visible
Early into this waltz of fruit my heart leapt at the discovery of the sweet impression left by a soggy-bottomed apricot I picked off the kitchen…
The Endless Harvest
I’m saving the stones – each a promise of new growth – as this endless apricot harvest creeps along…
Secret Beauty
Ladybug, Ladybug fly away home! Your house is being made into jam!!!
A note about FREEDOM
As much as my mind would like to turn away and push these thoughts and images through a trap door, I’m setting an intention to bear witness to both…
The Breeze at Dawn
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi
Sifted Flour Mountain
Something interesting happened to me during the Christmas season last month. I fell in love with baking…
Merry Christmas
Whether you choose to celebrate Christmas or are observing a different holiday I wish you a safe a...
Behold! The Bulla Bread is Done!
After a full day of experimenting with this new Swedish Bulla bread recipe, with all the adjustments for high altitude baking, it really doesn’t matter how it tastes-just look at how lovely it turned out!
Swedish Bulla Bread!
Holy cow! I’m baking Swedish Bulla bread for the first time at altitude, plaited with three proves!
Swedish Meatballs in the Making
Given the many cooking posts I’ve created this month you might think I’ve tossed design and photography out the window to make this a Swedish kitchen blog. Although anything is possible…
Lucia Buns Hot From the Oven
A different recipe this year with different results. These Lucia buns look impressive but turned out a bit…
Good Grief!
Poor Sir Whimsy Bacon! Your hike is coming!
St. Lucia Buns – Second Prove
One of many steps in the process of making St. Lucia Buns is the second prove. After allowing the dough to rise it is…
Saffron Delight
Ah, Saffron! It always makes me think of Christmas in Sweden! I make St. Lucia Buns every Christmas and saffron is the key ingredient…
Vogue
The best pose Sir Whimsy Bacon has struck in quite some time.
Going Majestic & Wide
This is THE PLACE to stay if you have $500+ per night to throw into a Yosemite vacation. I have no idea if it’s worth…
Perfect in Every Way
Saying goodbye to a beloved pet, even when that pet isn’t yours, is one of the most painful things I know…
Big-Leaf Maple Head
I was gobsmacked by the size of the maple leaves in Yosemite and soon went on a quest to find someone who knew the specific name of the magnificent trees towering over my tent…
Lurching Squirrel
This little fella was so tame, he came right up to my pickinick bench and sat up on his hind legs as if to say, “Got Margaritas?”
Magical ingredients going into my Instant Pot
Although I’m a newbie at this whole InstantPotting thing, I must say it’s making me almost giddy. How in the world…
Birthday Boy! 🎂 #sirwhimsybacon
Yes indeed, my best man and boy toy turned 8 1/2 today!!
Sunflower Surprise Party
Sunflower Surprise Party After a very long drive back home after visiting my mother I was...
Sir Whimsy Goat
This is a shot of Sir Whimsy Bacon from last fall just after he leaped up on my shi-shi side table in the backyard.
Sunshine Through Rain
Truly, the veil between the two worlds is so thin here sometimes it makes my eyes sparkle.
May the Storm Be With Me
So often in this life, the only way to know how strong we really are is through…
Cabbage, again. Because it’s good for you…
So… when I start posting multiple images of cabbage it’s fair to say it’s a slow news day here in The Land of Enchantment. Not that I don’t love …
Cabbage
I faded this shot from black and white into color for a reason…
Best Man
A few months ago a friend of mine said I’d never find a man who loves me more than…
Waiting for Voltaire
Ahh! Sunset at the Santa Fe Opera!
What the Frog Saw: Once in a Thousand Year Storm
Santa Fe was pummelled by the mother of all monsoons a couple weeks ago. After months of extreme drought, it was a dramatic display of lightning…
Self-Portrait
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow…
Navajo Rugs on the Plaza
Apricot Harvest
Finally! This is the first time the enormous apricot tree in my front yard has born fruit since moving here…
Shadow Self
I’m fascinated by the shadows we cast, and how the people who seem the burn the brightest tend to throw the deepest…
Paint By Numbers
I always thought numbers were hard to judge. I’ve been told they don’t lie and you can’t argue with them. But lo and behold…
A Prayer for the Wind
May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and…
Synchronicity
I remember standing on top of the boathouse while my dad’s friend shot of rockets down by the Lake Anna shoreline. In a moment of…
The Flying Octopus in Our Heads
She said, “Most of the time, I don’t give a damn about tripods. The good things in life are better hand-held.”