Seeing in Images and Words
Welcome to my electronic home! You’re stepping into my world—that is, a more orderly than usual version of it. Something brought you here or made you want to check it out and I’m so happy you’ve come.
Come, sit down. We’re face to face, in a sense, which is my favorite way of interacting with people. This website’s the table, if you will, and a mug (or wine glass) of something good always awaits you. One on one: for me it’s a definition of friendship, two people sharing their lives.
Stop by any time. Perhaps you’ve received notice of a new post, or simply want to browse a bit and think. Come on by. I’ll be here with thoughts to share: interesting prose pieces, photographs, and sometimes recipes, poems, free downloads—and surprises. And always color! Come on in and sit down at my table. If you’d like to leave comments, I’ll do my best to answer in a timely way.
Hello, friend. Glad to meet you!
A Place Like This
When newly engaged Sally Buffington is introduced to Craigville, she meets an expansive Cape Cod cottage that is virtually a family member itself. She quickly finds herself competing for airtime among the talkative, assured band of brothers and her new mother-in-law—the cottage’s lively and confounding matriarch.
Sally, a Cape Cod local, soon wonders how she’ll ever maintain her independence, let alone her sense of self when the day’s agenda and every detail is already set in stone. But, she navigates her new life with quiet persistence and a boundless curiosity that guides her to explore life through the creative lens of her camera and her pen.
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I am all about being creative in every moment. I want to inspire others to live consciously, and motivate people to keep going, growing, and doing.
Though I come from Boston and Cape Cod, I live in California (San Diego) and always will; I keep harkening back to my east coast roots in body or in spirit. Over the years of this bi-coastal existence, my entire adult life, I’ve become fascinated with places in general. I love to explore the contrasts between places and the sometimes contradictory marks they leave on us, and on friends and family on both sides of the country.
One place looms especially large in my life, Craigville, a family summer home where I’ve been privileged to go for over fifty years. It’s located on Cape Cod, whose “bared and bended arm” (as Thoreau called it) is a much larger and more varied land mass than you might think. For me, Cape Cod is a spiritual home and much I will be sharing with you is inspired by my love for the place.
Educated as a musician, I worked as a flutist and private teacher for thirty years; now I am a writer and photographer. The beauty and variety of creation is around us everywhere, yet sometimes beauty hides in plain sight or lurks in odd, quirky places. I live to search it all out, to notice– in the kitchen, my neighborhood, in nature or in memory, travel, and via found objects, surprises, and art. Now in my seventies, I’ve never retired and never will. I want to taste the world in every moment and share what I find.
Explore with Sally
