Mountain Light

We are in North Carolina this weekend for a beautiful, outdoor wedding. Yesterday was a clear, crisp Fall day, much like our own wedding day six years ago! It was incredibly meaningful for us to photograph a wedding on our own anniversary, just 30 minutes from where we were married in the Blue Ridge Mountains on September 30, 2000. Thank you to Michelle and David, and their families, for sharing the occasion with us. With characteristic Southern hospitality, they greeted us on Saturday morning with an anniversary gift basket, complete with a wonderful bottle of wine.

North Carolina holds many special memories for us, as Andrew's grandparents built a home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and retired here. I couldn't resist posting a favorite quote from North Carolina native son (and esteemed journalist), Charles Kuralt:

"In the South, the breeze blows softer...neighbors are friendlier, nosier and more talkative...this is a different place. Our way of thinking is different, as are our ways of seeing, laughing, singing, eating, meeting and parting. Our walk is different, as the old song goes, our talk and our names. Nothing about us is quite the same as in the country to the north and west. What we carry in our memories is different too, and that may explain everything else."