I’m just home from the backcountry of Utah where I was on a jaunt and a shoot with a pair of girls I am blessed to call friends. Â It was a wild old trip. Â The night sky gave me vertigo. Â The canyons blew my mind. Â Carrying a 60ish pound pack (which was, in part, 9L of filtered water) didn’t kill me, it just made me stronger. Â The 45mph boat wreck we survived on the Colorado River on our way back to civilization gave me a gentle case of whiplash (wish I could say I’m joking, but I’m not). Â When I wasn’t perishing of thirst I felt like I was starving to death. Â It was a proper adventure, the whole thing, from start to finish. Â I always say it’s the most dire times that make the best stories and I look forward to writing out the official story of this trip.
I keep telling myself this, these days, “It’s a hell of a life.” Â Because it is, my friends, it is. Â There’s really no other way to word it.
We’re now finished with a batch of renovations at our little abode and will be listing the house for sale quite soon. Â I have mixed feelings about it. Â This has been such a wonderful home for us but there is more life calling and we want a bigger patch of land to call our own. Â I have to leave again on Wednesday for Wyoming where I’ll be working hard with my camera on a fairly exciting project — one of my biggest and most official jobs yet, as a photographer — wish me luck! Â Once home again, I’ll be able to fit one more week of work into the studio here before I begin to pack everything up for our move to the Methow Valley for the duration of the fire season. Â After that, everything is grey matter. Â We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know where we’ll be living next winter and life details will shake out as they do. Â If I’m even harder than usual to get ahold of between now and June it’s because I’m dug up, dangling in thin air with my roots exposed to the wind and sunshine.
I hope you’re all well. Â Spring, here, has been such a hoot!
X
Wow! Best of luck Lady Plume, I wish I could buy your cute little abode. It looks so very charming in all of your pictures. And some of my family wants to move to Pocatello!
I don’t like the visual you gave describing your self with all your little roots exposed! But I know in my heart of hearts you are going to be okay! Ok! Take care, the future is full of hope and promise…much much luck to you and yours.
Wow! Getting close now. New adventures and life changes – or maybe just geography changes and life will continue on as one big adventure! I think it’s all rather magnificent, and can’t wait to hear how it all plays out.
Kiss Wyoming for me. Home sweet home. í ½
you know….you have such a way with words.
“it’s a hell of a life.” it surely is, ain’t it?!
good luck and blessings beyond anything you could imagine, dearest one.
xx
I just want to say that I find your blog and your adventures fascinating, it gave me the extra push that I need to start making my own blog. It’s still on its way, but either way, thank you!
Best wishes are coming your way Lady Plume, for these new adventures for you and the Mister. I have no doubt it will only serve as fuel for your growth as both an artist and a person. Looking forward to seeing you fly high.
xx
Cathy
Utah….always an adventure, right? Love that country! Love your adventures there too! Hope you’re doing ok after that boat wreck.
xx
Hell yeah! ALL of it.
When I saw you high on those orange Utah rocks, climbing like a mountain goat or curled up in your neon mummy bag on a cliff…my heart raced and I laughed because YOU LIVE.
And that energizes me.
xx
such a glorious rush of adventures! somewhere the perfect new home awaits your arrival when the settling down time comes. and then, a new adventure will begin! life has a way of unfolding like a beautiful blossom, all in its own time. I’ll be sending protective thoughts for your dangling, exposed roots until they are safely grounded once more. live each moment!
xoxo
All sounds delightful with the exception of the whiplash that I hope is going away soon. You blow my mind away carrying 60 lbs on your little body!!!
I say the busier the better sometimes, and then REST to absorb it all. You don’t need luck but I wish it anyway. Take care…look forward to next time. xx
Lovely post, beautiful pictures, good life description, your last necklaces where some of the best I’ve seen from you,good luck for everything.
What exciting adventures you’ve had Mrs Plume, I love imagining you rambling in the wild rocky places. I’m lying in bed with a week-fresh babe against my chest, listening to the wind howling about the dry hills and pasture that surrounds our little house – looking forward to many walks in future (albeit slowly with my youngins). All the best with the sale of your little home and upcoming photography project, oh course you’ll snap splendidly xx
No woman I know really L.I.V.E.S like you do…you are truly a special & inspiring being! Awesome news that you are embracing the photo pro role…you really know how to freeze-frame life. The way in which you visually capture the heart and soul of a moment, a place, a person or an experience is reflective of the way in which you write, create, love and…Live. Poetry in motion…you are. & if I am the one who is able to purchase your little abode know that you will always have the key, the doors will always be open & the light on the porch will always be on for you. XO
Wild Woman to the core.
“Everything is figure-out-able” — your retweet once upon a time, Jillian. And it’s truer than true. Breathe and your desired destiny breathes with you…thank you for the photography that is born through you…
Outstanding stuff, the story, photos and jewelry! Congrats for being centered, a somewhat rare commodity in the hub-bub of urban rurality, so-to-speak.
Back to your jewelry–how best to stay tuned? I’ve a birthday for a special friend that will need my attention. I’m looking at one of your necklaces and would be very interested when you’ve caught up.
Cheers, Good Hunting, and, Most Of All, Say Hello To Your Furry Pals!
Bright Waters & Tight Lines
Oh my sister-friend
so much change ahead of you…
you will be blessed by it all, I am sure
I have no doubt your shoot coming up will be amazing, you are a talent!
with all this moving…where of where can someone send you some snail mail loven’???
it’s good to “see” you J!
love and light