The Beginning

I am awkwardly writing this first post.  I guess it has to happen.  The inevitable first introduction that no one is reading.  hopefully.

Anyways,
Me in a nutshell:

I own a photography company.  By own I mostly mean starting.  Owning is easy.  I studied photography at University of Oregon and my passion is working in the darkroom with large format negatives.  Now, I am without darkroom.

I craft. A lot.  This includes cooking.   Tonight I made 60 jars of jam.  Yes, sixty.   Jamming is a particularly crafty sort of cooking, don't you agree?  I forced my boyfriend to pick 19 pounds of raspberries and 14.5 pounds of blueberries yesterday.  He was not pleased.

I live in a barn.  Yes a barn.  It's 3 stories and red.  I live there with my boyfriend. We are in the market for a stove so we can start eating hot food.   Our tiny refrigerator is full of film.  We live there with two barn cats.  They hide behind vintage suitcases and hiss.   I have started collecting silver buckets to decorate with because they look so at home there.  My life is particularly glamorous at the moment.

I just got back from living in rural Ecuador for 1.5 years.  I taught English in the small town of Guaranda.  Now I am happily unemployed and making jam.  Oh, and that photography company I 'own'.   I am trying to live out all the dreams I had in ecuador of cooking,  gardening, exercising, and enjoying Oregon.