by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 25, 2010 | Art
Winter's AusterityIsPoetry.Spring's Crowded GreenIsChatter. All three identical images: Tennessee River, Chattanooga. Top: "photo shop" auto correct exposure. Middle: no adjustment but sharpening. Bottom: exposure darkened. Comments &...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 22, 2010 | Art
Re-route. Disappointing. Very. Don't know what happened. I've heard of this happening. Blog posts disappearing into the blogosphere. The beautiful photoblog picturing our MLK weekend trip to Chattanooga posted at midnight Friday, per usual. At noon on Friday I...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 19, 2010 | Art, H2H, Our Book
Pages marked, notes ready. Waiting for an audience. Before our Davis-Kidd book signing & discussion last week. Every week this January–as photographer/collaborator Rebekah Pope noted at last's week's successful Davis-Kidd book signing and...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 18, 2010 | Art, Nature, Travel
Willow Pond, frozen. Percy Warner Park, Nashville. January, 2010. Photo, post: copyright, Leisa A. HammettA balmy fall gave way.Early December's sudden chillA rude slap in the face. ********One night faded to a morning dressed in frozen. Stretched branches no...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 15, 2010 | Art, Grief & Loss, Spirituality
Daughter of country hit wonder*. Actress. Songwriter…Lauren Braddock Havey's first book, Journey to the Son, had to be good. I'd never met or heard of Lauren who lives in "my fair city," until she popped up on a social media site for which...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Jan 13, 2010 | Art, Autism/Disability
My sister and Grace shaggin' Carolina style as our cousin and friends jammed after Thanksgiving dinner. They'd approach us at the old health food store. Myself and my infant who too quickly became a toddler perched in the seat of our grocery cart. Amused,...
