Kicking around Camden

Sammy and Lucy in Camden, Alabama. August 2010. Soul food restaurant and motel pool. The pool was very warm. The hottest water I have ever swam in. Daily temperatures were regularly about 110. The car thermometer reached 118.

Quilter

She sews everything by hand and improvises the pattern. Starting from the center and working your way out was the advice.

Lulu, Lucy, and Sammy

For the past 2 summers I drove 1500 miles, from Vermont to Alabama with two of my children. Here they are with quilter Lucy Mingo.

Breakfast Pie

On Christmas morning. 2009.

siblings

June 2009.
Walker William and Samantha Esme.
One of my last type 55 shots.

Eggs

Babies, eggs of all kinds, feathers, flowers, families....!

Quilt 4 of 4.

This project was supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

cows and leopards

This quilt features animal fabrics. Mostly I used cow for the dairy families. Sometimes "newcomers" got leopard.

This project was supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives funds from the NEA!!

Here's quilt 2

Of the 4 Kirby Documentary Quilts.
Several of the individuals on this quilt have died since their portrait was made. Cheryl McMahon of the Kirby Quilters did the quilting on this one. She quilted a butterfly around the portrait of Grace Emery who died in November, 2009. Grace loved her garden, birds, and butterflies.

This project was supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives funds from the National Endowment for the Arts!

I ended up making 4

of the Kirby Documentary Quilts! If I had made 1 it would have been too large and heavy. I grouped things loosely. Themes, families, neighborhoods, cows, fabrics. Here is quilt one.

This project was supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts!

Fireworks and kudzu in the sunny south.

Images from last summer's trip to Alabama.