Deacon Blues

September 3, 2017 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

…for Walter Becker

Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University

They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

Blue Ridge Parkway, October

November 26, 2015 / winterSmith / 1 Comment

Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina

Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul

November 12, 2015 / winterSmith / 1 Comment

Canopy: Reynolda Rd.

November 7, 2015 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

Reynolda Road Sunrise, Winston-Salem, NC

Graylyn Sunrise

November 2, 2015 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

Graylyn Estate, Winston-Salem, NC

Wait

November 1, 2015 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University

Festival of the Dead: Samhain 2015

October 31, 2015 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

Hat full of words,
words like the ember-lit
belly of a Samhain sky
whistling with owl feathers.
A voice, dry as skeletons,
scrapes between worlds.

High road or low road: choose.
So I do,
each word a trillion trillion first steps.

Gardening at Night

October 29, 2015 / winterSmith / Leave a comment

The black & white take on the previous shot…

Fountain, Reynolda Gardens, Winston-Salem, NC

Water of Love

October 29, 2015 / winterSmith / 4 Comments

I have said a time or two in this series that Reynolda Gardens is one of my favorite places on Earth. But this, specifically – the little fountain at the heart of the gardens. When I was young, starting when I was a student at Wake Forest (which is adjacent to the gardens), this was my favorite place to take dates after dark. It was so unspeakably beautiful and tranquil…perhaps the most romantic spot I know. It was wonderful to be able to sit by it for a few minutes on my recent trip back, and to capture with my camera the thing I could never articulate with words.