my imagination exceeds my understanding of what is code-able. i have a vision of a "leave me a trinket" section, people can upload a little image they like and i'll have it displayed in a big collage, like maybe a funny junk drawer kind of set up, and you can hover and it'll say "x left this here on..."

any other ideas or code advice welcomed with open arms.

leave a trinket idea is actually so cool

I LOVE the way you have the site setup now where you can organically explore. the sitemap might be more clear if you added pictures for about and recently or made them more clearly links/navigation and the text inside the pictures is a little hard to read

also a small css thing the transitions/animations on some of the pictures start to glitch if you follow the edge. I had the EXACT same issue and I think I fixed it by making the div with the transition a fixed height and width with absolute units like em, rem, pixels, or vh/vw so that it doesn't change during the transition and retrigger it. I think thats how I fixed it