Diane Raptosh was cooking eggplant parmesan on the afternoon of July 17, 2018 when she received a phone call that would turn her life upside down.

Mere hours earlier, the only person to ever hold the title of Boise Poet Laureate had been texting her brother in Truckee, California about his latest photography opportunity. Guess what I’m doing today, Eric had written. Attached was an image of the small plane he and his husband were about to board, from which he planned to take aerial shots of nearby Pyramid Lake.