laughs a lot....poster girl for the cliche "all good things come to those who wait".......no longer gets aggravated when young people call her "ma'am"....keeps her house, office, and darkroom in charming disarray....lifelong yo-yo dieter...teacher, learner, mother, sister, daughter, friend, church lady, dog lover, hybrid owner, yellow-dog Democrat.

"...sometimes all it takes is a wink or a nod from some unexpected place to vary the tedium of a baffling existence."

Bob Dylan

"If you can't see it where you live - on your street, in your home.....you are not looking" RUTH BERNHARD

"Anybody who does creative art is a sacred person and cannot do any harm whereas a bad politician, a bad doctor, or a bad cook can kill you." MAN RAY

"To create is divine. To reproduce is human." MAN RAY

"I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer." Berenice Abbott

"Good portraits show you not what someone looks like, the geography of their face, but what someone is about." Duane Michals

Never, ever, show anybody your contact sheets.

Elliott Erwitt

I teach both traditional film-based and digital photography at Tallahassee Community College. If I fave your photo it means I am considering using it in a powerpoint accompanying a lecture. If you object to that, tell me.