A few weeks ago I felt like I was living a blogger’s fairytale. This barely ever happens to us bloggers, by the way. Our lives consist of late night writing and anxious glances towards the comment box more than fairytale moments. But, I did have a Cinderella moment when the lovely people at VSCO asked …
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There will be a book + I need your help
Telling you that there will be a book scares the pants off me. I’m telling you now, months before the it’s even close to being completed. Why am I doing that? Well, two reasons. FIRSTLY. Saying it, scratch that, TYPING IT OUT LOUD makes it real for me. I thought I could be one of those …
Underneath the coffee trees
I love it under the coffee trees. Don’t you? We’re off to the coffee hills again tomorrow. I’ll be photographing more of the harvest process and Coffee Guy will be talking with farmers and making sure the coffee cherries are being processed correctly . I can’t wait. Being among the coffee trees re-connects me with …
The Burundi Coffee Harvest
It’s harvest time here in Burundi and we decided to take the entire family into Burundi’s beautiful coffee hills to see it… and the film crew tagged along too. I don’t know if you will remember, but last year we didn’t see the harvest because we couldn’t get ourselves moved over here in time. It …
Behind the scenes with the film crew.
The Cooked In Africa film crew is back in town putting the final touches on the show. They are staying in our house, drinking all our coffee, and generally being a nuisance. Except that they are really not a nuisance at all. They play with our kids and make us laugh. It’s like having built …
Burundi’s front door
I have always wanted to take the time to photograph the doors we see while whizzing to the coffee hills. There is something beautiful about how unique they all are. Really, I don’t think I have ever seen two doors alike in Burundi! I imagine that these doors say a huge amount about the people …