Apple Picking Time

September 8, 2006

Dear Susie,

At one point in my life I spent a lot of time at an apple orchard way out route 145. I didn't live on the orchard, but Michael and Anne did, and Michael and I had our darkroom set up in the spare room. Anne worked on the orchard a couple autumns, picking, and this time of year always puts me in mind of that. Michael and I were in our amateur photography phase. He was also apprenticed to a potter, Renzo Fagioli, who taught at Moravian, and Anne and I worked at the bookstore.

We ate stamen apples. We shot Tri-X film. It was a calm time in my life. I didn't see the storm gathering.

I love you. XOW