
https://oleoalmanzora.com/oleoturismo-en-pulpi/ Making Cookies © 2014 Bo Mackison
I started a new photo/travel project a few weeks ago, a project, called Thirty One Thresholds.
https://www.petwantsclt.com/petwants-charlotte-ingredients/ Quite basic in its undertaking, the project encourages me to get out of the house. (A coping method when life gets a bit overwhelming, I morph into a hermit!)
Once out of the house, I go somewhere, almost anywhere, camera in tow, and consider the many thresholds I cross – literal or metaphorical… Not a lot of rules. Keeping this low pressure and easy…
As I wrote in the first post when exploring the start of this project, https://www.petwantsclt.com/petwants-charlotte-ingredients/ I’m not sure what nuggets of wisdom I’ll discover or exactly what I’m looking for… but I’m willing to believe I’ll find what I need to find — or it will find me!
Since I began on December 1st, I have visited a Mustard Museum (for fun and amusement), a tropical paradise in Madison’s Olbrich Gardens (for the illusion of summer and warmth), a walk in the neighborhood (which is as far as I could make it that day!) and a state capitol building (in search of spaciousness and the grand gilded art of an earlier time in architectural decor.)
Fun. Warmth. Tiny steps. Space. Art. A good start!
Last weekend I went to Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor history park that offers a glimpse of Wisconsin life — historic farms, artisan handcrafts, heirloom gardens, daily routines in rural Wisconsin in the mid to late 1800s.
A docent was baking gingerbread cookies at an old wooden table, the surface scattered with flour, a treasured rolling pin, cookie cutters hand fashioned from scraps of tin, and dark gingery dough! Though the time period was off by a few decades, the ginger cookie baking scene was reminiscent of the countless days I spent baking with my grandmother and great-grandmother.
What a perfect threshold to walk across.
Hands warmed by an open fire. Hearts warmed by memories of the best of childhood times. And, as a bonus, just-baked ginger cookies to enhance the memories.