whirliegig

I am a mother, a photographer and artist. I grew up in the Chicagoland area with a botanically-obsessed and crafty mother. Tennessee has been my home for the past 12 years and I’ve been trying, in vain, to keep all of mom’s shade lovers alive in the hot, southern sun.
Three years ago we purchased our first house and a bit of property out in the country. Now I’ve got ample space to experiment a bit to see how far I can take what I’ve been taught. I find aspects of homesteading alluring in part because my grandparents were farmers of a sort. This year we hope to design our first chicken coop and very possibly purchase some honey bees. Eventually I’d like to have a few goats, some sheep and a llama named Penelope. Some days I miss living so close to a metropolis, but life out here is much easier to appreciate – that and I can’t have a llama in the suburbs.