57/365 We saw Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society’s sold-out show at The Jefferson Center tonight. The first time I ever heard of her was when she won the Grammy for Best New Artist a few weeks ago (and beat out Justing Bieber which had everyone surprised). But now I know why she won. Her voice [...]
25/365 The lovely Andrea of Andrea Despot Photography and The Lighthouse Keeper came to visit and we enjoyed a day full of photos, book stores, antiques, caffeine and good food. It was an unusually gorgeous day which put me in a great mood but it had also been a while since I’ve been on a [...]
23/365 *** Current music obsession: The Civil Wars. Their debut album will be released Tuesday, Feb. 1 and I can’t wait! Check out the title track below and if you want some more goodness from them, listen to Poison and Wine,. It’s painfully beautiful.
Here’s to you and me. And to all the lovely things I’ve been too busy to take the time to indulge in. Like writing. And reading others’ writing. And laundry (thanks Jeff!). Since I haven’t had the time to sit down and gather my thoughts, I thought I’d do a post on the beautiful things [...]
Indie music blog, Sparkups.com has provided a free download of a compilation of 94 songs of what they have considered the best of 2009 Indie Rock. I’ve only listened to four tracks so far but consider it worth downloading already after hearing the second track which is a cover version of Death Cab for Cutie’s [...]
The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo. Description: “This is the Olympus PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60,000 pictures, developed 9,600 prints and shot over 1,800 pictures again. No post production! Free download of the music at olympus.eu/penstory/.” Makes my heart happy =)
Meet George and Kristin. George is quite literally my oldest friend in the world…not age-wise but number-of-years-being-friends-wise. He lived two doors down from me. Stopped by my house every morning in grade school so that we could walk to the bus stop together and showed up on our doorstep with an umbrella to walk me [...]
Hi! My name's Huong (pronounced "Hung") and I'm a photographer, writer, wife, and paranoid germaphobe who lives in Roanoke, VA. Traveling, good reads, and witty people with lovely brains are a few of my favoite things, but photography and writing are what this web log is about.
