current

Things i’m currently working on, thinking about, or planning:- looking forward to California and a night on Alcatraz- I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the website lately. It’s slowly becoming something like a commonplace book—a spot for photos, places, projects, and little things worth keeping. There’s no real plan. I’m just letting it grow.- building the forest of my lego village

lingering

fresh flowers and a little time

pura vida 🌿

afternoon games where nobody really cares who wins

fifty miles, sore legs, and a cold shower

creations

minifigures

Tiny adventures in ordinary places

ashley for the arts

a few photographs that ended up larger than expected

sketchbook

unfinished sketches, rough ideas, unused concepts, illustrator pasteboard junk, and things that almost became something.

lego village

I started off building the beach, but moved on to the forest

construction on the beach rock

art

thinking about making more time for sketching

design

most projects begin as notes in the margins

outdoors

The route shifted turn by turn, but the goal stayed the same: pizza and beer

bike rides somewhere between peaceful and exhausting

“in nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”- alice walker

lego

some ideas take longer to build

food

Ice cream beans actually taste like vanilla ice cream

free bread somehow tastes better than bread you paid for

travel

looking ahead to where we wander next

Costa Rica somehow managed to fit a lot into one week. We made chocolate and coffee, zip lined through the rainforest, wandered through the jungle at night looking for poisonous frogs and snakes, and tried ice cream beans from a street vendor. I still think about the hot springs more than anything.

found

a $100 bill that behaves like a website.

trout fishing cabin by sala architects. another life, maybe.

thinking about how different animals see color

ntl parks

everglades - 11.28.25rented bikes. trail was way longer than expected. the ride back just kept going. alligators everywhere.

Biscayne - 11.27.25quiet boardwalk. giant lizards, beautiful water

indiana dunes - 7.4.24stopped on the fourth of july. ranger said it was the busiest she’d seen in years.

badlands - 9.23.22just drove through and glad we did. prairie dogs everywhere.

yellowstone - 9.20.22fed bear cubs and saw old faithful

theodore roosevelt - 9.19.22incredible scenery

great smoky mountains - 9.20.21first visit to the smokies