Almost famous

Hey there! I know we've relocated, and I would love for you to come see me at my new blog www.theconstantholiday.com, but for anyone who missed the relocation notice, I'm just popping in to share a bit of excitement.

We're on The Kitchn!

I'm putting this identical post on all my blogs, because it's very exciting, so bear with me if you are an amazing person who reads ALL of my brain ramblings. I do apologize. 

But - I'm published! With the lovely and talented Amy Herr, who is a food photographer in Atlanta and a good friend of mine, and the person who took the photo above. We got accepted as contributors to the blog "The Kitchn", for their Kitchen Tour column, and our first tour went up on the site yesterday. Amy took all the photos and I wrote the text, and you can see it here. 

Relocated!

We are moving!  I have FINALLY  gotten all my stories and photos from the old blog migrated here to http://www.constantholiday.com. We’ve had a great run there and will leave the old blog up for as long as the kind folk at blogspot allow us.

Above, to keep with our relocation theme, is a sunset from 30 thousand feet. I spend aboout eleventy thousand hours in airplanes a year (okay, that’s an exaggeration) but I never tire of watching sunsets and sunrises from the aerial perspective. It’s the closest I’ll ever come to space travel, and I watch the changing light over the textured clouds, so similar to the changing light at the edge of the sea. It’s the space where two worlds come together – not to collide, but to overlap and create something new.

Which is what we’re hoping to do at the new location. Welcome.

Photobombed

I love this picture, which is actually a still snagged from a video shot with a GoPro camera that I bought just before I went to the Keys last September. I look like I'm photobombing my own photo! I'm underwater (hence the snorkel mask) and if you're at all familiar with the GoPro family, you'll know that you have to look at the *front* of the camera in order to turn it on, then rotate it toward what you actually want to shoot - which in this case were some cool fish around a dock near the apartment I was staying in. All over the world there are GoPro vids that start with the same bemused "is it on yet?" expression on the users' faces.

This trip - last September, so you can see I'm a little behind - was a four-day lightning strike just after Labor Day weekend. I spent the four days tooling around the middle Keys in possession of my very favorite object: a rental car. Really, you cannot beat the feeling of reliability and utter abandon that you get with a vehicle that only has two thousand miles on it and you get hand off to someone else at the end of the week. It's like a short term romance on wheels - all enjoyment, no regrets, and someone else has to rotate the tires.

When I wasn't in my automotive fling, I was in or on the water, since the Keys - especially the Middle Keys, including Marathon, where I stayed - are all about the ocean. Talk about being a stone's throw from the beach - I was in a place where even I was capable of jogging from the west coast (the Gulf of Mexico) to the east coast (the Atlantic side).  At it's broadest point the island I was on was all of 150 feet across, surmounted by an endless bowl of blue sky, and fringed with palm trees - the Tahiti effect, without the inconvenient airfare issues (but with plenty of sarongs, thanks to the lovely people who rented me the apartment). And with a dock reaching out into the silvery sea right off the edge of the property, and a kayak available, I did a fairly good mermaid impersonation for most of my stay.

 A mermaid with a camera. Is this thing turned on yet?