Wesley Duffee-Braun

Vocare, a young adult min­istry, occurs yearly in the moun­tains of west­ern North Carolina.

It is a com­mu­nity event, with peer-led work­shops and shared expe­ri­ences, held in an old apple barn at Valle Cru­cis Con­fer­ence Center.

We took a trip to Charleston, SC as a cel­e­bra­tion of our preg­nancy and some very pleas­ant weather.

Spent two full days wan­der­ing the city, act­ing like tourists and pho­tograph­ing every­thing in sight. It was a fan­tas­tic trip.

After a drift­ing storm, dri­ving through the Bilt­more is always a pleas­ant expe­ri­ence. Espe­cially with hun­dreds of acres of quiet around, it was a great moment to have some pho­tog­ra­phy with a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive — not near the archi­tec­tural details as nor­mal, but a greater sense of the space and dis­tance between the ele­ments on the Estate.

Spend­ing Mardi Gras out at Tressa’s, with The Funk Messenger’s play­ing. Good crowd, good energy.