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This shack near Vigo, Alabama, serves the family that farms the crops behind it. It invites the viewer through the partially opened doors. I'm sure inside you would find old tools, you'd smell old oil and maybe the fumes of gasoline hovering over the mower and the trimmer. Inside you might also find a something more precious to the owners, perhaps an implement handed down across many generations. Don't let the rusted exterior fool you; the interior is full of fresh and vibrant memories.

Vibrant and dramatic images awaken our mood and senses. Their memory stays alive as a reflection in our souls. I live in the Southeastern U.S. where woods approach water, clouds top treetops, and hills and mountains lift the morning sun into the day and silhouette the start of night. Professionally, I'm a mapmaker and photographer. I love photography because it's a captured moment that's both eternal and incomplete. We see that photography with our eyes, ears, sense of touch. In that sense the photo is captured forever but still lives and is transformed--by you and by me. What we bring to the photograph when we view it is our own re-painting of the image. I'm a Benedictine Oblate. My relationship is with St. Bernard Abbey in...