I love doing portraits and especially love photographing creative people, the spark shows up in their faces and in this photo of Mary Kellogg. As she enters her 85th year – “I can’t have too many more,” she says – she is excited about her third volume of poetry – “How To Dance” – she is more radiant, enthusiastic, creative and beautiful than ever. Mary is a light unto the world, an inspiration to Maria and to me. She will be celebrating her poems and reading from her new book at the first Bedlam Farm Open House, June 27-29.

Mary lives alone on her 30-acre farm not too far from us, she loves being there, it is her place on earth. “Do you ever thinking of moving to someplace else?,” I asked. “Closer to a town.”

“No, not ever,” she said right away. “Why would I?”