"Julie's Vacation" by Nancy Abrams

Nancy Abrams was born in St. Louis and has been a working photographer and journalist for more than thirty years. She spent most of her career in the Alleghenies of West Virginia so she has developed an amazing portfolio of hundreds of negatives that document the natural beauty and dissapearing traditional culture of mountain life. Nancy currently lives in Millburn, NJ and is attending the New School's writing program while she restores a 1950 Frank Lloyd Wright inspired house.

I met Nancy circa twenty years ago at he Uptop Farm near Terra Alta, WV. Her vivacious intellectual curiosity and sense of humor hooked me and we spent hours walking through the woods and baking around the fire at night.

This picture is so meaningful because it represents among the hardest working woman I know.
Julie Osborne is a Nurse Practitioner and mother of two from Chicago. More on Julie, later.

Nancy and Julie are sisters to me.