Mom after some early blackberries.

And another Oksana.

Here's Oksana!

Old picture of my friend Sarah.

Mom and her begonias, 2008?

Oksana's family album with the headless knight on the cover, containing photos from before the October Revolution. Her grandpa told us stories of the people in the photos, Ukranian Jews living in the Soviet Union. I felt so privileged to listen. I urged him to write the stories down one day, but he said he wouldn't. I think he felt that no one would understand.

Dad at the ridge.

I finally got all my film developed!! The final batch was from fall 2011 to summer 2012 in Akademgorodok, Russia. I don't usually take photos of strangers, but I had to make an exception for this woman and her gorgeous scarf.

I survived June!

My dad's dad on a reel from 1939 at the Boyd Museum in Wytheville. (And the kid with the toy revolver is my great-uncle Freddy.)

Mom mowing.

Here's my mom! Her plants are taking over the dining room.

Dad picking blackberries at Strawberry Ridge.

We miss him.

Dad mowing last summer. Sent some more film to be developed yesterday! It's like Christmas every time.

Dad in Omsk, more of these later.

Taking portraits because I'm no good at it. (...yet!)

These are cropped by Photoland, too. If it's not 6x7, it's cropped.