{the.wednesday.whistle}

dear mikki and katie…

i have danced in and out of writing this for some time…but i think today is the day.

this is about home…

home for you gals is the western mountains of maine. you have grown up with river fishing, views of sprawling mountains, and a border line ridiculous amount of snow. we have lived here for 5 years now {cannot even believe i am saying that} but it has been 5 years this past 3rd of july. your childhood has been filled with the in and outs of a small town atmosphere and i feel we have somehow melted into this community in a surprisingly amazing….any of you who know small towns know what i am saying…

i grew up in a small town too. and this picture is just a piece of my community…and Grandpa’s, and MeMa’s, and Great Grandmas {plural…both great grandma’}. i think most photographers try to get the sunset on a perfect maine night….the sky in the background with the sunset going down just beyond the marina. but this is how i always saw it in my little life. fog…even on the best of evenings in the summer.  when i was a little girl, i would curl up in the corner of the cab of my daddy’s F150 and we would see nothing but the ocean smoke….that was home…it still is.

home is different for every one….

all my love darlings…

ps. as i get older, i realize that home is wherever you guys decide to land….

p.ps. daily mantra….home is not where you live, but where they understand you…{christian.morganstern}