Eliza and Chandler get down and get funky

Meet-up Group Weekend

Meredith gets tattooed, Ed strings the fiddle, I photograph.

Going South!

The wind is howling outside and the cold seeps through my window.
I'm getting ready to go to Guatemala in a couple of weeks and in the meantime, I make do with last year's photos of Chiapas.

Death Penalty Returns to NH

Well, at least they aren't hanging anymore.

Michael Addison, a black 28-year-old with a prior criminal record, admits he shot and killed Michael Briggs, a white, 37-year-old police officer/family man in Manchester, NH, in 2006.

The last person put to death in NH was in 1939. This year, white millionaire John Brooks was faced with the death penalty for a murder-for-hire and kidnapping charge but was given a life sentence instead. "If you have money like Brooks does, you certainly won't have to use lawyers like these." Via NHPR.

Addison, who suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and was raised by his grandmother in a housing project in Roxbury, MA, was described by a friend as a "relaxed type person" but one who is "not very bright, obviously, if he's going to pull a gun on a cop."

When Addison's death sentence was read yesterday, Maryanne Briggs, Briggs' mother, felt that justice had been served. "My family is just so happy," she says.

Shooting the Gun

this past sunday my cousins took the old 22 out from my grandfather's study. "sarie you want to shoot the gun?" asked woo. "your fingers are gonna freeze." one randall's cider jug packed with snow, six bullets and some shot up trees later, we were pretty cold.

After the Storm

Baird Hill Road

drained lake, bored dog

Color

Frye Store Makes A Come-Back

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If you drove through Center Conway, NH, between 1930 and 1998, you knew Frye Store. Home of the thick-dish pan pizza, deli meats and jalepeno poppers, Frye's was the hub of Main Street. In the summer, my BFF Xana and I rode the three miles out to the store on our bikes. Stuffed our faces with hot balls, Snickers Bars, Twizzlers and Coca-Cola, and then rode home.
Frye's closed down ten years ago due to building dilapidation, rumors of drug problems, and lack of cash.
Now, new proprietor Greg Fecteau promises good food like before, but better.
"I could have named the store something different, but people were always going to call it Frye's," he says.

Peppermint Geranium

in my grandmother's kitchen

Dance Dance Revo

Modest Mouse/M.I.A/Bruce Molsky
Tuesday Evening in the Boonies

Be Bliss

Kelley Simpson, aka "Raji" lives in Fryeburg, Maine. "I always think of Kundalini Yoga as the best chocolate. I see someone and I say, 'you've got to have a piece of this'. It's no fun keeping it to yourself."



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T.

Natalie--digi from your camera....which is why there are only 2.

And the best Black Friday Story yet.

November 25th First Snow

As seen from inside.

Beads and Things that Hang

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Fair Trade Stuff, North Conway Village

2 more again

Gulf Road, South Conway.

2 more, compliments of Thad

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At Chip's House

The Frugal Traveler

Thad Thorne

"I’m not interested in having people think I’m a big deal, cuz I’m not. I know I’m not, and I might as well admit it.
I don’t amount to a row of beans."
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The Sawmill. South Conway, NH

Eliza and Chandler

Eliza's fairy dress with wings held on by electrical clips. Chandler drinking Kombucha tea from a glass.


and on the weekly walk to the Milton's: