Central Coast California 2023

“Lean in close to my little record player on the floor. So this is what the volume knob’s for… I listen to dance music.” – JD/The Mountain Goats

February 2023

“February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.” – Edgar Fawcett

January 2023

January Howls

December 2022

“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. / December feels like blood.” — Zinaida Gippius

November 2022

“I wore the scent of weather inside / my body like a sacred love.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta

October 2022

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

September 2022

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2022 • Part II

“But this girl felt like nectarines and balconies to me. She felt like everything. She felt like a long winter, then a nervous spring, then a sticky summer, and then those last days you never thought you’d get to, the ones that spread themselves out, out, out until they feel like they go on forever. So, August is a person.”
― Casey McQuiston

February 2022

“Why, what’s the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
― William Shakespeare

October 2021 • The Rest

There was more color in October than I had thought. My GF and I did a fun horror photo shoot. I ate amazing Soul Food and made my favorite fall treat: the stuffed and baked pumpkin. B and I went to my first California Renaissance Faire. BP and I went to the most amazing Halloween […]