By Whitney Cole
This week has been a bit odd. It began with the UCI Road World Championships kicking off last weekend, which scared off all the locals and turned Richmond into an eerily peaceful ghost town. Then I shot a wedding (normal), then my boyfriend left for a nine-month educational adventure to Italy (not as normal). Since then, the week has been simultaneously hectic and sluggish-feeling. Maybe I’m the sluggish one and the week is trying to go on without me.
My sister followed suit with what seems all of the other VCU students and headed back home for the week, so the apartment has been extra empty asides from Lou, who airs her grievances often about our thinning apartment population.
One of the more noticeably pleasant attributes of the week has been the weather. If I remember anything from the past few years, it’s that fall lasts all of one week now before the 20 degree weather rushes in, so figured I’d seize the opportunity and go for a walk. The leaves are beginning to fall from the trees in tiny clusters almost as if to not rouse suspicion that fall is coming. The people remaining after The Great UCI Escape are walking their dogs, riding their bikes, and doing some yard work, and everything seems to be buzzing with a sweet energy. I brought my camera around and took some pictures as I took a fairly leisurely stroll through the Fan, pushing the week’s responsibilities to the side for the time being.
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Whitney Cole is a tiny Southern firecracker from small-town Virginia She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 with a B.F.A. in Photography. Her work to date has been an investigation of her Southern heritage. Follow her on Instagram for lots of pictures of her dog and trees.
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