Autumn in Vermont

Nice Kirby family with Halloween decorations.

emotional baggage

I made this bag for my grandmother. After she died my brother ended up snagging it. It came back last summer in a huge bag of discards and hand me downs that his wife sent to me.

autumnal images

Fall in Vermont is fleeting. Here are two pictures that I shot for the quilt only about a month ago. Now it is so cold that I can't stand outside with a camera for long without thinking that I'm going to get frostbite. These women are some of Kirby's movers and shakers. Longtime (perhaps lifelong) residents.

An endless ode to type 55!

As I mentioned, I'm still going through a mourning process. This one was shot at an elementary school's Valentine's Day dance. Jonesville, South Carolina. I now live in a place where you could never photograph outside on V.D..

Fairly Fantastic!

Still involved in the stages of grief associated with mourning. Here are photos from the 2006 Caledonia County Fair. It was just expensive then, not endangered. This family sells to Organic Valley.

mud hollow

Even after leaving the south I can still hang out in places with names like Mud Hollow. There are three geographic areas in my small town of Kirby, VT. North Kirby, South Kirby, and Mud Hollow. North and South Kirby are separated by a mountain. Mud Hollow is just kind of off to the side. From my conversations with certain (somewhat sensationalistic) long time residents, I gather that it used to be considered taboo for North and South Kirby people to intermarry. And although it now houses lawyers, teachers, nurses, and other "respectable" individuals, Mud Hollow has long had a REPUTATION. Although the girl who terrorized Walker on the schoolbus (calling him a butthead with frequency) is from Mud Hollow, I consider it to be a lovely place. It truly is a hollow, and people are very warm and friendly (for Vermonters!) Pictured in this block are two Mud Hollow families.

**This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

nepotism?

My children will appear on a disproportionate number of squares on the GREAT KIRBY DOCUMENTARY quilt. Sammy is on her square twice along with her fantastic friend. This past summer I dragged them with me to many protarit sessions. They were of course very helpful AND carry much crowd appeal with them. ("What lovely, well behaved girls!") I let them have a sheet of film and use of the Wista; they photographed a sunflower together. Walker is in three incarnations on his square.

**This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts!