Entries by Nikki Alexander Photos

Went to look at the fall colors…

…but there weren’t many even though it’s mid-October. So my photos are in black and white. Of course, I love black and white so even if the colors had been spectacular my selects might still have been in black and white. These are from Graveyard Fields, an area off of the Blue Ridge Parkway where the […]

My favorite shot from the eclipse doesn’t include the eclipse

I met people from all across the US who, like me, chose Black Balsam Knob to watch day turn into night and then back again in a few minutes time. At an elevation of 6214 feet and within the total eclipse zone, how could it not be extraordinary? Still, we weren’t prepared. It wasn’t like regular […]

Thank you, Woody Cornwell

While sitting in my vet’s waiting room today the people next to me were talking about one of the founders of Eyedrum, an avant garde art space in Atlanta, who had died recently. My heart sank — my favorite art teacher was a founder. A quick Google search confirmed that, oh no, it was him. […]

Do clovers turn colors in autumn, too?

I found this little plant on my run the other day. Had no idea clovers turned colors, too, or if that’s what’s happening or if that’s even a clover. I could Google it but I like the mystery.

Simple lives

My grandparents lived very simple lives in very simple homes. Both sets. They all lived into their 90s and all but one died at home.  (I had written a lot more but deleted it this morning, on 10/6/14. After rereading the post again, it sounded so callous to me. Not at all what I intended, which was […]

Fixed

  There is a beauty in things that you have fixed, and a wide “fixed” spectrum. There’s fixed so it’s almost like new. Fixed so it functions. Fixed as much as I have time for right now. Fixed as it’s ever gonna be. Fixed for now until I get the right parts. Fixed to last […]

Blue Ridge sky

It’s the actual Blue Ridge Parkway, the road, that feels like home. Winding up the mountain to get to it feels like I’m getting closer and closer to being able to breathe deeply again…and then there it is! The first vista, whichever one it happens to be depending on my access point, and the first deep really […]

Ponce City Market, before

Wandering through this massive 1M+ square foot building that used to be a Sears store and regional headquarters (and built on the site of a former whites-only amusement park, which I just learned) was like stepping back in time. So quiet, so heavy, so permanent, with signs written in fonts of decades past and the […]