cornflower

photograph by rinne allen

Saint Roch's cemetery

before heading to new orleans a friend told me to visit the saint roch's cemetery.  there are several amazing cemeteries around the city, but this one was special.  we visited the grounds on a hot hot and muggy day to check them out. 

the tidy cemetery was filled with hundreds of old carved tombs and inside its lovely chapel was a little room where folks have left offerings from answered prayers.  the tiny roomed housed hundreds of items including prosthetics, teeth, ceramic limbs, and more and they were arranged on the white walls of the chapel.  

a little odd and mysterious...yet lovely.

photos and words by kristen bach

coreopsis and greenhouse

photograph by rinne allen

pom pom dahlias

photo by Kristen Bach

barn slats

photograph by rinne allen

kinfolk community gathering #2: honey harvest

in the spring, i hosted a flower potluck party on behalf of kinfolk magazine...for the summer community gathering, we will be going to 3 porch farm to celebrate the honey harvest. our farming friends, mandy & steve, will lead a tour of their beautiful farm and talk about beekeeping and honey harvesting. the group will also taste different local honey, make their own herbal-infused honey, and enjoy food & drink made with honey: mead, cookies, and the famous honeypops that 3 porch farm makes themselves.

if you would like to come along to the gathering, you may purchase tickets here.

words & honey photograph by rinne allen

blurred pinks

photograph by rinne allen

rise and preserve NOLA

in an area of new orleans with so much devestation from katrina, the bywater's message rise and preserve is sung through the streets.

photos by kristen bach

blueberries

photograph by rinne allen

a new baby alpaca

we have been waiting for a couple of alpacas to give birth for a month now.  we came home last night to find this sweet one..... just a few hours old.

photos and words by kristen bach

bleached wood

photograph by rinne allen

dr bob's sign shop

dr. bob is a folk artist in the bywater of nola.  we we wantered through his studio the other day.  here's a peek, there is a lot to look at!

photos and words by kristen bach

summer mix

photos by kristen bach arrangement by rebecca wood

central grocery

central grocery is in the french quarter of new orleans. it is an old italian grocery and it's the creator of the muffuletta sandwhich. 

we ordered up some muffuletta sammies......crossed the street....and sat along the pier and watched the barges go by.

photos and words by kristen bach

a book for you

ten years ago, rinne and rebecca had a daydream: to create a book with 365 photographs, one for each day of the year. after many years of thinking and photographing and thinking some more, we are happy to announce that the daydream is now a reality.

thanks in large part to the addition of kristen and the creation of this space, beauty everyday, the three of us were able to gather the imagery that we needed and truly envision the book we wanted to create.

it is with much happiness that we announce that will release our first book, Beauty Everyday, on august 15 of this year.

featuring 365 photographs made by all three of us, in and around athens, georgia, the book has 420 pages of southern beauty: flora, patina, the landscape...the environs that we call home. The deep blue custom-dyed bookcloth cover is the perfect backdrop for rebecca's gilded illustrations. Inside; an index is included with locations or details of each image; and a small bit of text explains our simple process.

the book is intended to be an inspiration, a refuge, a reference.

turn the page each day to reveal something beautiful to look at; take in a whole season at once and revel in the transformations that take place; or just turn to pages at random and look to the index to see where the photograph was made.

a page marker ribbon is included, so that you may mark your place and follow along each day.

we will begin pre-selling the book on this website soon, and, in addition, the book will be available through some of our favorite shops and friends. further details will be announced soon!

Thank you, readers!

- rebecca, rinne, & kristen

blooming and sprouting

we’ve had so much rain and everything is blooming and sprouting up out of the earth like crazy! here's a sampler: mimosas,mushrooms and gardenias.

photos and words by rebecca wood

jackson street antiques

while visiting new orleans we stopped into jackson street antiques.  we enjoyed letting our eyes wander through all of the layers.  I can imagine some of the lovely old new orleans homes filled with these old treasures.

photos and words by kristen bach

lily pads on water

photo by kristen bach

roses

photos by rebecca wood

wild flowers

photo by rebecca wood