Cat Thrasher Photography

Things have been super busy here since the last post. From preparations for the Child Face Exhibit at McGuffey Art Center to the opening of a new exhibit of Foxhaven Farm photographs at 12th St. Taphouse to flying all the way to Palo Alto, California for a series of family clients, we have been going, going, going! Over the next few days I will be updating you on the latest and greatest, so stay tuned!

I just got word that our child face exhibit was accepted for a fall 2009 show at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville!

For more details, click here. Contact us if your child would like to participate!

Last week, I went to Denver with UVa’s Child Study Center to attend a conference for the Society for Research in Child Development, possibly the biggest child development conference in the world!

Despite the conference, these photos mostly involve eating. I’m not sure how else to say this, but Denver has good meat!

Multiple people recommended going to El Chapultepec, though by the time we got there we were in severe food comas…

On Saturday, we went to the Berkshire, where they specialize in bacon and bottomless mimosas…

They also specialize in cures for hangovers:

Last year, while living on a farm, I was told by one of my farm-mates to “just throw some seeds in the ground” in March. So, my inexperienced farm-girl self did so, and somehow, by the end of the summer, I had three separate overgrown but bustling gardens full of tomatoes, peppers, squash, cilantro, basil, and oregano. With this, I discovered the easily addictive quality of a garden plot.

This year, I’m hoping to do something more well thought-out – less squash, more lettuce, rotating veggies, etc – I’m even going as far as to plant a few perennials so that it’s much less prep and more product year after year.

About 1 1/2 weeks ago, I sectioned off a sizable plot running along the fence in our backyard, and threw a few seeds in some indoor pots, including tomatoes, peppers, oregano, rosemary, basil, thyme, and sage.

Last March, it took about 3 months for me to see anything sprout, inside or outside. This March, I saw these sprouts (below)  come up exactly 7 days after planting them! I have no idea what I did right.

Outside on the same day, I planted lettuce, kale, onion bulbs, spinach, sugar snap peas, some sort of snow pea-type thing, a few flowers, and carrots. I’m not too optimistic about the outside group, as it snowed yesterday:

The garden is on the far right side of this picture, running along the fence, about 4 feet wide. It extends beyond the bottom-right of the photo to about double the length of what you see here.

So, this is our garden in March. I’m planting some pimentos to make Jim happy, and have plans for asparagus, strawberries, and blackberries.

Spring awaits!

My dream warehouse.

The train station and Wild Wings, a view from the Main Street bridge.

The edge of Fifeville.

5th and Dice.

Dashing Jim!