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Workshops Begin
About a month ago, the first workshop at The Kitchen began with Lumen Printing in the Woods, followed by Black and White Film Developing. We were spared from thunderstorms on days on either side of Lumen Printing for a lovely day of gathering plants and making prints. The Film Developing…
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Tradeoffs
Honestly, it’s more good news than bad news. But you know how sometimes accomplishing one task leads to the creation of several more tasks? The barn has water. It’s a major milestone. But the tradeoff is that we were left with our property looking like a construction site. I will…
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One Box and Many Birds
February has been a transformative month up here on the hill. We officially have a box that will contain some future awesome photo fun. Behold: Everything is paused for a few days as we hopefully wrap up the water situation early next week. After a few glorious days of 60-degree…
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Building Permits, Big Purple Cabinets
It’s nice and quiet up here, but we really aren’t in that isolated of a spot. I can get to a grocery store in 7 minutes. I-65 is 12 minutes away. I can even walk down the hill and get to a critically-acclaimed tenderloin sandwich establishment in less than 10…
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Right Place, Right Time
I hesitate to ask too many questions on Facebook darkroom groups, because, well, reasons. But we started talking about looking for a revolving door rather than building a light maze, even though I was initially opposed to the idea. So I threw the request out to Facebook-land. After being told…
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Dumpster Joy
Everyone around here has a name. The first hummingbird at the feeder is Sippy, and sometimes Zippy joins them. The pileated woodpeckers are Peaches and Herb. We welcomed their offspring this summer: Piley Cyrus and Pilley Holiday. The redheaded woodpecker is Carlos. And our local trash panda, she is Bea…
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Progress
I’ve been working on the barn for most of August — still sorting through many items from our moves from Savannah and Asheville. A lot of items were left behind from the previous owner of our property as well, so I’m very excited for the dumpster that will be arriving…