Katy Kelleher

1 week ago | midcoastvillager.com | Katy Kelleher

There is nothing so boring as a bad landscape painting — I know, I’ve produced dozens of them during my experiment-with-watercolors phase. Yet the reverse is also true: There are few images as sublime as a soulful and skillfully executed nature scene. Although painters have been capturing Maine’s sea, sky, forest and mountains for hundreds of years, the genre still hasn’t gotten stale. It’s a marvel, a testament to the varied topography and beauty of this place.

1 week ago | l8r.it | Katy Kelleher

MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, Hannah Humpheries left her home in Wales and traveled, first by boat, then by train, finally by carriage, to the booming city of San Francisco. There, she made her living by running a general store. “I wasn’t quite as brave as my great-grandmother,” says Emily Warner, owner of High Noon General Store in Santa Fe. “But I did do something wild with no safety net and no help.” Warner was inspired to make a move after visiting the City Different in 2020.

1 week ago | newmexicomagazine.org | Katy Kelleher

MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, Hannah Humpheries left her home in Wales and traveled, first by boat, then by train, finally by carriage, to the booming city of San Francisco. There, she made her living by running a general store. “I wasn’t quite as brave as my great-grandmother,” says Emily Warner, owner of High Noon General Store in Santa Fe. “But I did do something wild with no safety net and no help.”  Warner was inspired to make a move after visiting the City Different in 2020.

1 month ago | newmexicomagazine.org | Katy Kelleher

THE FIRST THING MOST people learn when they begin gardening or farming, Jared Hagood laments, “is to open a catalog and order your seeds.” But it wasn’t always this way. People used to share their prized seeds with neighbors, relatives, and friends. Thanks to Lineage Seeds, that tradition is making a comeback. The company encourages what Hagood calls a “symbiotic relationship” between plant and person. “We’re not just the domesticators of these plants,” he says.

2 months ago | nationalgeographic.com | Katy Kelleher

The Ganges River in India is awash with brilliant color as millions of Hindu pilgrims dressed in tangerine, fuchsia, and watermelon wade into the green waters, dropping marigolds in their wake as a sign of devotion. At dusk, chiming, mesmerizing music floats out over the crowds, and each day at dawn, the chanting begins anew. Across the labyrinthian tent city, the sound of chanting and the scent of ritual fires fill the air in equal measure.