Photography by Chia Chong
Styling by Libbie Summers
Even in the heat of a Southern summer, life gets sweeter and somehow happier when the oven turns on and the first cup of flour is measured out.
BACKSTORY
Her parents named her Breeze, but she prefers to go by her middle name –Adrianna. An only child, Adrianna’s world fell apart when both her parents were killed in a tragic automobile accident the summer of her Junior year in high-school. In the wake of their deaths, she ran from the sadness of her home in California to undergraduate school on the East coast. A savvy girl, Adrianna realized her look (the all-American girl look) was everything she saw in the editorial pages of glossy fashion magazines.
Never have met a beekeeper I didn’t like. They strike me as a breed apart and I believe they think they’re special too. But with a quiet charm and disposition that signals “we-do-tricky-work”. I’d say still waters run deep, but bees rarely rest and I guess keepers have to cut and run not infrequently.
The calm sweet afterglow of a bees feverish work and the ethereal quality of smoke and morning light. A monastic beekeeper with holiness in his spirit as a bacchus host before a young girl queen accepts her destiny. A sweet afterglow.