…the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything. -Erica Jong

 I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.  -Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility

1.16.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. 5 mile run around White Rock Lake on MLK Day

1.7.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. White Rock Lake on a cloudy morning, the scene of an [unfortunately untimed] 5k

Tuesday the 8th — blue, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. A Valentine’s day hike through a national mangrove park (the largest undeveloped mangrove ecosystem in the US, in fact). J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, FL February 14, 2009

12.28.10, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. still, snowy beach

12.26.10, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. blizzard! it was like this all day. the most snow VA Beach has seen since the 1930s

10.18.10, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. we went to Asia, wherein I got sick. we then left Asia. taken from a ferry, on the Bosphorus

10.12.10, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. first night in Turkey fisherman on the Bosphorus Strait

9.25.10, originally uploaded by Paige Weaver. i snorkeled. it is exceptionally difficult to take photographs underwater, just for the record