In 2006, I took the trip of a lifetime. After decades studying literature and Latin, I stood in Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s home, and amongst the columns in the forum of Pompeii. We were young then, Anna and I, but to this day we love traveling with our families whether in North Carolina, or Alaska, or England where we were engaged and where this photograph was taken. I saw many marvelous sights on that trip–Marseilles, Mallorca, and all of the little English hamlets we visited like Grasmere. This photograph of a well-trod path through the bracken ferns was taken in the Lake District in Northwest England. Though you cannot tell from the perspective of the photograph, the bracken are as tall as I was, and the white and black sheep cloistered themselves between the fronds. I felt a bit like Alice, dwarfed by the thick blanket of beautiful green ferns. The Lake District truly is a wonderland, and I cannot wait to return.
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ST. AMAND PHOTOGRAPHY 
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